I think Japan is the dark horse! Of course the petite Eriko is Japan's fairest mare! The Japanese team has been making waves of late.
The draw: A group: CHN, JPN, GER B group: INA, MAS, RUS C group: TPE, THA, IND D group: DEN, KOR, ENG
From a Chinese badminton forum. If you can read Chinese, follow the following link http://bbs.badmintoncn.com/thread-183247-1-1.html There are photos as well
Unfortunately I don't but thanks all the same. BWF is so slow to upload to their website. And to think they are the guardians of the game
Looks like 8 teams make the QF (see pg 3 in link below) http://www.bwfbadminton.org/file_download.aspx?id=32227
Yep, thanks madbad. So, it will be two-top teams in each group, so there will be 8 teams in QF I see..
Oh hey, I red this : Knock-out Stage: 5.4 The draw for the knock-out stage of the Competition for shall be done immediately after the last match of the group play off is over. Does anybody know about this rule? Is it that the draw in knock-out stage still cant be determined now?
It's so that teams cannot fix their group matches to end up in a position avoid a certain team in the QF. That happened in the last Sudirman Cup which was quite a joke
If I remember right, Korea was the biggest offender. Yet by the (then) rules, they did nothing wrong by taking advantage of this loophole