England playing schedule is not favourable as they will play their 2 ties in less than 24 hours. But I think England has chances to win XD and MD. So my prediction is KOR - ENG : 3 -2, with ENG leading 2 - 1 first. ENG will be the first one to be out of the Sudirman Cup this year. JPN - GER : 3 -2 at least. JPN will win MD and WD and they just need to win another one. Most likely will be XD.
Indeed, unfavourable schedule for ENG team. Yup, looking at their performance against DEN, they potentially will steal 1 or 2 points from KOR. JPN vs GER, brilliant Schenk big possible will deliver point today after her sensational winning over world #1 yesterday.
But, today ENG will field different MD. And except MD, KOR will field best team (MD itself is KSH/YYS, which is not too much different in quality with JJS/LYD) 1 XD Yong Dae Lee / Jung Eun Ha vs Jenny Wallwork / Nathan Robertson 2 MS Sung Hwan Park vs Rajiv Ouseph 3 MD Yeon Seong Yoo / Sung Hyun Ko vs Anthony Clark / Christopher Langridge 4. WS Youn Joo Bae vs Elizabeth Cann 5. WD Min Jung Kim / Jung Eun Ha vs Jenny Wallwork / Gabrielle White My prediction for this match is 5-0 for KOR I wonder an upset by GER. GER double player are balanced, and still has chance to steal points from JPN. High probably, WD will be JPN's. But GER could take WS and XD. Second match Tago vs Zwiebler will be decider. My prediction is 3-2 (not sure who will win)
KOR 4-1 ENG. Think ENG might steal the XD JPN 3-2 GER. Zwiebler played better than the score suggested against LD. Has a chance to pick up a point. Schenk–robot soldier–was amazing yesterday; she should win too. GER doubles looked awful–JPN to win all 3 THA 4-1 IND. Saina might pick up one for IND; depends who she plays. MAS 3-2 RUS. RUS to take WS and XD. Even then I'm not sure.
unlucky seeded no 9-12 like england who have to play in less than 24H. India, germany and rusia too. no time enough to rest. :crying: anybody know about the line up of malaysian team.? tournamentsoftware is not ready for it.
No offense, but... my goodness. Look at those Sri Lankan shuttlers' names. Edirimuni Dinuka Perera Karunararhna Edirimuni Niluka Rushan Perera Karunarathna Lasitha Menaka Karunathilaka Renu Chandrika De Silva Hettiarachchi Thilini Sudhara Jayasinghe Achini Nimeshika Rathnasiri Kapuru Mudiyanselage Samanthika Pathirnalage Weerasinghe Do the umpire have to read their full name out loud?
i hope they do better than that hong kong umpire trying to pronounce those european names during womens doubles between denmark and england (i could see the players giggling when heard their names called at the start).. hilarious
so quiet in the forum now...maybe Monday blue? or everyone think that CHN will win it easily that no one bother to see the results??
jenny improved...but just lack the killer instinct...nathan meanwhile...smashes still too soft in my opinion
JPN and KOR have scored first point through their XD despite both pairs lost first game to GER and ENG respectively.
