CLELY
Regular Member
Venue : Singapore Indoor Stadium (SIS), Singapore City-SIN
Total prize-money : US$300,000
Tournament website : http://www.singaporebadmintonopen.com.sg/
Tournament time-table : http://www.singaporebadmintonopen.co...schedules.html
Ticket information : http://www.singaporebadmintonopen.com.sg/ticketing.html
Singapore time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wt...ma=Find%20Time
SEMIFINALS Order of Play (02.00pm local time, 2 courts) : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...0297AC-79BF-4735-AA2E-FC458AFFA7DC&d=20150411
China dominates semifinal round with 2 final tickets have been guaranteed through WS and XD followed by JPN and INA who have four representatives each at final four.
Hu Yun continues his gallant run and will up against Indian Parupalli Kashyap today, it may be close match based on their head to head, the two players are really motivated to score inspiring outcome in Superseries tournament and this is it. Simon Santoso should have high confidence in the sensational wipe out of strong faves at second round to repeat his magic last year, the young and dangerous Kento Momota will deliver stiff challenge for him today.
After relatively easy path at previous rounds, Tai Tzu Ying will have hard test today, defending champion Wang Yihan, it's chance to Taiwanese young star to overcome Chinese #3 as her opponent shows lacklustre performance lately. Sun Yu and Wang Shixian will face each other at bottom half of draw to chase final ticket.
Big gun surprising defeat yesterday, Lee YD/Yoo YSS lost to INA back up Pratama/Suwardi who will meet the experience Japanese pair Endo/Hayakawa. INA best hopeful Ahsan/Setiawan will take revenge over their All England losing to Fu HF/Zhang N, it'll be high quality match with Fu Haifeng hard smash and Hendra Setiawan superiority at front court area.
CHN-JPN clash for WD as top two seeds Matsutomo/Takahashi, Kakiiwa/Maeda will be challenged by former world #1 Wang XL/Yu Y and upcoming pair Ou DN/Yu XH. Highly prospected to see all Chinese affairs tomorrow unless one of Japanese pair could perform extraordinary this afternoon.
Ahmad/Natsir is surrounded by three Chinese pairs, will they survive today? In last three meetings the Indonesian #1 lost to their nemesis, they should find better strategy this time how to block the mighty Zhang/Zhao. Xu/Ma v Lu K/Huang YQ, the different generation duel as the senior pair has slight advantage to win.
LIVE TV (court 1, 02.00pm) matches :
1) Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi (JPN) v Wang Xiaoli/Yu Yang (CHN)
2) Hu Yun (HKG) v Parupalli Kashyap (IND)
3) Tai Tzu Ying (TPE) v Wang Yihan (CHN)
4) Angga Pratama/Ricky Karanda Suwardi (INA) v Hiroyuki Endo/Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN)
5) Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) v Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir (INA)