Venue : St.Jakobshalle, Basel-SUI Total prize-money : US$120,000 Tournament website : http://www.swissopen.com/en/home/ Tournament schedule : http://www.swissopen.com/en/actual/daily-programme/ Tournamentsoftware link : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=840F18B4-A8D9-468D-848E-14F9AF8EC63D Live-streaming information : http://www.swissopen.com/en/actual/live-streaming/ Basel time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=13139&forma=Find Time 2014 WINNERS => http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/s...0EEF04-3B7E-4FB3-8899-474D8E098C8B&d=20140316 MS - Viktor Axelsen (DEN) WS - Wang Yihan (CHN) MD - Chai Biao/Hong Wei (CHN) WD - Bao Yixin/Tang Jinhua (CHN) XD - Chris Adcock/Gabrielle Adcock (ENG) After high profile All England concluded, badminton tournament will be toned down to lighter atmosphere with combination of several elite, average and young players are taking part here. Some notable withdrawals according to ts com updated, Tommy Sugiarto (INA), Rajiv Ouseph (ENG), P.V. Sindhu (IND), Mads Conrad Petersen/Mads Pieler Kolding (DEN), Michael Fuchs/Johannes Schoettler (GER), Shizuka Matsuo/Mami Naito (JPN), Jwala Gutta/Ashwini Ponnappa (IND). MS discipline has defending champion Axelsen, top-seed Srikanth Kidambi as frontrunner, and the darkhorses who may spring upset here, last year runner-up Tian Houwei, Takuma Ueda, Xue Song, Hsu Jen Hao. WS, Japanese and Thai players like Yamaguchi, Takahashi, Ongbumrungpan, Jindapon are potential players to bring the noise to shake CHN two represetatives Wang Yihan and Sun Yu. MD, In the absence of top-10 pairs, it will be open chance for any pair to shine in Basel this week. Cai/Lu will be the pair to beat based on their seeding position due to top two seeds last minute withdrawal. WD, no doubt the newly crowned AE winner Bao/Tang is hot fave to seal back to back victory, their teammate Tang/Zhong will be main challenger also first seed Maeda/Kakiiwa as well. XD, looking at the line-up of this category, it will be INA biggest chance to win title as their leading pair Ahmad/Natsir comes here, accompanied by Jordan/Susanto, Widianto/Dili. The hard test should coming from England married couple The Adcocks and two Chinese combos Liu/Bao and Lu/Huang. Former MAS #1 pair, Chan Peng Soon/Goh Liu Ying is back to action after Goh recovery process due to knee surgery last year. Today's programme will kick off this GP Gold, started from qualifying round (12.00pm local time) and MS R/64 on the evening (05.50pm) => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...0F18B4-A8D9-468D-848E-14F9AF8EC63D&d=20150310
Is there any website to watch the matches live? I am now watching the live scores through the BWF website.
Although there are no Korean players participating this time, I am still keen to watch all the matches live. The updated results for the qualifying rounds till now are as follows: Agripinna Prima Rahmanto Putra Indonesia Rizki Amelia Pradipta Indonesia - Germany Andreas Heinz Germany Jennifer Karnott 21-7 21-7 0:15 St. Jakobhalle 12:45 PM XD - Qualification Hsiao-Lin Wu Chinese Taipei Hsieh Pei Chen Chinese Taipei - Malaysia Beryno Jiann Tze Wong Switzerland Ayla Huser 21-15 21-7 0:21 St. Jakobhalle 12:45 PM XD - Qualification Lin Chia Yu Chinese Taipei Wu Ti Jung Chinese Taipei - Indonesia Hendra Aprida Gunawan Indonesia Nadya Melati 21-8 21-15 0:25 St. Jakobhalle 1:10 PM WS - Qualification Nanna Vainio Finland - France Joanna Chaube 21-6 21-12 0:22 St. Jakobhalle 1:20 PM WS - Qualification Elisabeth Baldauf Austria - Switzerland Cendrine Hantz 21-13 21-18 0:27 St. Jakobhalle 1:45 PM WS - Qualification Marie Demy Belgium - Sweden Matilda Petersen 0-1 Retired St. Jakobhalle
I am curious about all the withdrawals. The two matches that are 1-0 retired makes it even more fishy. Unless both 1-0 matches had someone twist their ankle or something on the 1st point, I feel like the players did that just to avoid paying a penalty for withdrawing from the tournament. What is causing these withdrawals? Or am I just overthinking things here?
ROUND of 32 (09.00am local time, 4 courts) order of play => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=840F18B4-A8D9-468D-848E-14F9AF8EC63D Some INA players have tough test today, both Manuputty and Fanetri are slated to meet two Thai ladies Jindapon and Ongbumrungpan respectively. Bernadeth/Pradipta will take on AE semifinalist CHN combo Tang JH/Zhong QX while Kido/Putra has Cai Yun/Lu Kai as their first opponent. No serious problem for top contenders to pass R/32 hurdle.
it just caught to my attention that this guy Agripinna Prima Rahmanto Putra played 4 different matches yesterday and he won them all. Thanks God he won them all in straight sets. He must be so freaking tired today.
Very interesting. I've never seen any livestream with this view. Perhaps this is CCTV, but interesting view Light is on now.
Me too. Why would they, esp the qualifiers, come all the way only to withdraw or retire. The fine, unlike SS/PSS, is minimal.
Perhaps there is something in the rules about getting ranking points if you play but none if you pull out beforehand.
difficult to believe the results but in tournaments anything can happen though. Then K. Srikanth just won against Dieter Domke 21-10, 21-14. The biggest upset created today when Kazuma Sakai won against Tian Houwei.
What can Tian HW do right? Last week at the AE, he was unlucky to face Lin Dan, here he couldn't get past Sakai.
Not that big an upset as Sakai is no ordinary player. Meanwhile, K Srikanth was impressive the way he disposed of Domke.
Agree with you. I think personally Sakai has improved a lot. Not only Sakai all the Japanese players have improved a lot under the head coach Park Joo Bong. This I really have to thanked Park Joo Bong. How he took 12 years patiently to groom the badminton players in Japan from nobody to somebody.
Okay another biggest upset created. The score of the match is quite one-sided too. Zulfadli Zulkifli just won over Lucas Claerbout 21-8, 21-10. Wow a big marginal win here.
His negative trend is continued also Wang ZM as well. We''ll see Xue Song performance here who unfortunately met Chen Long last week at R/32 AE. Kento Momota shows the fastest improvement, he's current JPN MS #1, to replace Kenichi Tago who's displaying lacklustre performance lately.
Live Streaming ????? Very strange kind of live streaming is available on http://livevideo.infomaniak.com/iframe.php?stream=overview&name=overview&player=2162 Four courts covered in a single fixed angle camera, on the top. Hardly able to follow any particular match ! You have to guess who are the players ! What is a point in offering this kind of streaming ?? Any better streaming available ?