Well I got a mini heart attack in G2.. But somehow My conscience told me he will do it and there he is marching to the SF now.. I can't explain how I felt when he took 3 consecutive to seal the deal!! Ah!! Feeling relaxed now Rooting for the younger against the veteran in All Indian clash I hope KS wins the tourney.. Well just wondering how many points will KS have if he wins this gpg
Getting very sleepy now. The time in Korea is already 12.30 am. This few days have been staying up till late wee morning hours to watch badminton matches. The matches have ended extremely late. I didn't sleep at all on Wednesday and Thursday to watch all the matches. I have already drank 3 cups of coffee to sustain. Why the matches have stopped? When will the next match resume? Very sleepy already.
Indeed they are!! Ajay is in the intl circuit since years..with all those injuries and painful recoveries steep downfall in rrankings has given him lots of experience I must say he is getting in the track again.. I remember AJ was contending for OG Quota alongwith Pk... He was once the best IND MS Its good to see we had all India Finals in Syed Modi GPG and the same happened this year in MS event.. And now AJ vs KS is another milestone in SF of swiss open KS and SN rising to W# 4 & 2 respectively..yes this year should be a successful one for Ind perspective
There are only 2 courts..hence it takes time.. Next match is included in eve session around 6 pm..local time
Okay thanks a lot for the information. I just cannot wait to watch the exciting matches of LIU Cheng [3] China BAO Yixin China vs Indonesia Praveen JORDAN [6] Indonesia Debby SUSANTO Christie JONATAN Indonesia vs China XUE Song Amelia Alicia ANSCELLY Malaysia Fie Cho SOONG Malaysia vs Netherlands Eefje MUSKENS [2] Netherlands Selena PIEK. Now I am drinking the fourth cup of my coffee already. Must sustain and keep awake to watch the next five matches in court 2 lol.
Quarterfinals result St. Jakobhalle - 2 1. Starting at 1:00 PM WD BAO Yixin [5] / TANG Yuanting win Jongkonphan KITTIHARAKUL / Rawinda PRAJONGJAI 21-14 21-10 2. Followed by MD V Shem GOH [6] / Wee Kiong TAN win Takuto INOUE / Yuki KANEKO 23-21 21-18 0:39 3. Followed by MS K. Srikanth [1] win Takuma UEDA [8] 21-11 21-12 0:31 4. Followed by WD Ayane KURIHARA / Naru SHINOYA win Gabriela STOEVA [6] / Stefani STOEVA 21-14 21-16 0:35 5. Followed by WS Busanan ONGBUMRUNGPAN [8] win WANG Yihan [1] 21-13 21-15 0:40 6. Not before 6:00 PM XD LIU Cheng [3] / BAO Yixin win Praveen JORDAN [6] / Debby SUSANTO 21-19 21-7 0:32 7. Followed by MS XUE Song China win Christie JONATAN 21-17 21-10 0:40 8. Followed by WD Eefje MUSKENS [2] / Selena PIEK Netherlands win Amelia Alicia ANSCELLY / Fie Cho SOONG 21-15 21-23 21-6 0:51 9. Followed by WS Akane YAMAGUCHI [5] win Canada Michelle LI [4] 21-8 15-21 21-12 0:56 10. Followed by MD Max SCHWENGER [8] / Josche ZURWONNE win Kenta KAZUNO / Kazushi YAMADA 21-15 18-21 21-19 St. Jakobhalle - 1 1. Starting at 1:00 PM WS SUN Yu [6] win Porntip BURANAPRASERTSUK 21-11 21-5 0:31 2. Followed by XD Tontowi AHMAD [1] / Liliyana NATSIR Indonesia win Jacco ARENDS / Selena PIEK 19-21 21-13 21-10 3. Followed by WD Reika KAKIIWA [1] / Miyuki MAEDA Japan win Naoko FUKUMAN / Kurumi YONAO 21-18 21-19 0:50 4. Followed by MD CAI Yun [3] / LU Kai win Andrew ELLIS / Peter MILLS 21-10 21-14 0:36 5. Followed by MS Ajay JAYARAM win Kazumasa SAKAI 17-21 23-21 21-15 0:58 6. Not before 6:00 PM WS Sayaka TAKAHASHI [3] win Nichaon JINDAPON [7] 21-19 21-10 0:40 7. Followed by MD Gideon Markus FERNALDI [7] / Kevin Sanjaya SUKAMULJO win Kim ASTRUP [4] / Anders SKAARUP RASMUSSEN 22-20 19-21 21-17 0:59 8. Followed by MS Viktor AXELSEN [2] win HSU Jen Hao [7] 21-13 21-12 0:36 9. Followed by XD Riky WIDIANTO [4] / Puspita Richi DILI win Gaetan MITTELHEISSER / Audrey FONTAINE 18-21 21-17 21-11 0:45 10. Followed by XD LU Kai [5] / HUANG Yaqiong win Chris ADCOCK [2] / Gabrielle ADCOCK 23-21 21-14 0:41
Semi finals schedule St. Jakobhalle - 1 1. Starting at 1:00 PM WS Busanan ONGBUMRUNGPAN [8] Thailand vs Japan Akane YAMAGUCHI [5] 2. Followed by MS K. Srikanth [1] India vs India Ajay JAYARAM 3. Followed by WD BAO Yixin [5] / TANG Yuanting China vs Netherlands Eefje MUSKENS [2] / Selena PIEK 4. Followed by XD Riky WIDIANTO [4] / Puspita Richi DILI Indonesia vs China LU Kai / HUANG Yaqiong 5. Followed by MD Gideon Markus FERNALDI [7] / Kevin Sanjaya SUKAMULJO vs V Shem GOH [6] / Wee Kiong TAN 6. Not before 6:00 PM WD Reika KAKIIWA [1] / Miyuki MAEDA Japan vs Japan Ayane KURIHARA / Naru SHINOYA 7. Followed by WS Sayaka TAKAHASHI [3] Japan vs China SUN Yu [6] 8. Followed by XD Tontowi AHMAD [1] / Liliyana NATSIR Indonesia vs China LIU Cheng [3] / BAO Yixin 9. Followed by MS XUE Song China vs Denmark Viktor AXELSEN [2] 10. Followed by MD Max SCHWENGER [8] / Josche ZURWONNE Germany vs China CAI Yun [3] / LU Kai
My prediction of semifinals result St. Jakobhalle - 1 1. Starting at 1:00 PM WS Japan Akane YAMAGUCHI [5] 2. Followed by MS K. Srikanth [1] India 3. Followed by WD BAO Yixin [5] / TANG Yuanting China 4. Followed by XD China LU Kai / HUANG Yaqiong 5. Followed by MD V Shem GOH [6] / Wee Kiong TAN Malaysia 6. Not before 6:00 PM WD Reika KAKIIWA [1] / Miyuki MAEDA Japan 7. Followed by WS Sayaka TAKAHASHI [3] Japan 8. Followed by XD Tontowi AHMAD [1] / Liliyana NATSIR Indonesia 9. Followed by MS Denmark Viktor AXELSEN [2] 10. Followed by MD China CAI Yun [3] / LU Kai Just a prediction of the results and I may be wrong here. Let us stay tuned to watch the exciting semifinals match later. Of course some big upsets have been created. Most notable here is the lost of Wang Yihan.
GP Gold winner will gain 7000 points. If Wang YH continues her slump performance then she will say goodbye for Rio 2016. SEMIFINALS (01.00pm local time, 1 court) => http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...0F18B4-A8D9-468D-848E-14F9AF8EC63D&d=20150314 Final four has two sessions (01.00pm & 06.00pm), IND and JPN have guaranteed 1 final spot each through MS and WD respectively. MS, Srikanth and Axelsen are on the way to final script, let's see whether Xue Song will deny the towering Dane to defend his title here. WS, first meeting of Akane-Busanan at senior stage, world junior champion is fave to prevail. Sun Yu, China sole survivor after surprising defeat of Wang Yihan will take on Sayaka Takahashi, the Chinese seems on fire based on she eliminated Porntip convincingly at last eight. MD, close match is predicted between Fernaldi/Sukamuljo v Goh/Tan and the winner of this tie most likely will face Cai/Lu at last round. WD, excellent performance so far by Bao/Tang and they will be tested by Euro #2 pair Muskens/Piek and high possibility Kakiiwa/Maeda will be their final opponent. XD, CHN-INA duel in both semifinals of this category. Liu/Bao is tremendously dangerous pair and soon may replace Xu/Ma as CHN #2 pair, the senior INA pair must be careful with their speed and fast furious attacking style by young guns Chinese combo. Another encounter, Lu/Huang has favour to advance against Widianto/Dili.
Not sure I agree with this statement. She didn't play poorly last year, she just lost against better players most of the time. This year so far she's lost to Marin & Okuhara. The only 'strong' players she's beaten so far have been Bae Yeon Ju, Ohori, Sato & Jindapon. I would have expected her to win the same matches a year ago. As things stand now I see no difference between Sayaka from last year to now. Big challenge vs Sun Yu today, which I expect Sun to win.
Livestream here commentary in Mandarin, slight delay http://www.yumantianxia.blogspot.sg/ Hopefully, the second session is also shown here later.
Busanan doesn't look confident, perhaps thinking of their junior championship days when Akane used to defeat her.