Venue : Haixia Olympic Sports Center, Fuzhou-CHN Total prize-money : US$700,000 Tournament prospectus : http://www.bwfbadminton.org/file.aspx?id=653979&dl=1 BWF YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/bwf Alternative streaming : - https://livestream.com/bwfbadminton - http://videostream.dn.ua/videopage/v...%96f%E2%84%96f China time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wt...ma=Find%20Time ROUND OF 16 Order of Play (10.00am local time, 3 court) : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...C5CA11-E6F6-42A9-9D9A-0375D903F24E&d=20151112 Shocking first round for Srikanth, Ahmad/Natsir The most striking defeat of day two tournament is former champion Ahmad/Natsir lost to German pair Fuchs/Michels followed by defending champion Srikanth Kidambi who succumbed to Hu Yun. Another setback also created by the resurgent Tommy Sugiarto who lost three games to HKG player Vincent Wong Wing Ki. Home ace Chen Long also second seed Jorgensen passed opening round comfortably while Axelsen and Lin Dan were stretched into the limit by Wei Nan and the qualifier Qiao Bin respectively. Good news for HKG fans as Hu Yun and Vincent Wong WK surprised their more favoured rival. Kento Momota got a scare by Wang ZM also Chou Tien Chen needed extra game to eliminate local youngster Xue Song. Some projected intriguing ties at second round, Axelsen v Vincent Wong WK, Momota v Son WH, Lee DK v Shi YQ, Ponsana v Hu Yun, Lee CW v Chou TC.[FONT=&][/FONT] [FONT=&] Not many upsets in WS category at opening round, only former world champion Ratchanok Intanon found the exit door by Okuhara. So far so good for Japanese WS as all of them marched on to next round. Tomorrow second round will offer close encounter between Tai TY v Yamaguchi, Hashimoto v Sung JH and Sindhu v Wang SX. Top two seeds, Nehwal and Marin are expected to win over Tee JY and Canadian Michelle Li respectively also home hopefuls Li XR and Wang YH as well. 6 MD slot for the host at last sixteen, one quarterfinal ticket has been assured through Chai B/Hong W v Huang KX/Wang SJ. At the brink of losing, reecent WC silver medalist Liu XL/Qiu ZH survived against Pratama/Suwardi narrowly will take on former world champion Ko SH/Shin BC. Other title contenders, Ahsan/Setiawan has home youngsters Wang YL/Zhang W as next opponent and Boe/Mogensen will find stern test, Malaysian #1 Goh VS/Tan WK. And top ranked Korean pair Lee YD/Yoo YS who got first round bye will start their campaign against former WJC Li JH/Liu YC. Some interesting WD battle will be started tomorrow, recent Bitburger Open winner Tang YT/Yu Y will challenge reigning KOR SS champion Maheswari/Polii, first seed Matsutomo/Takahashi v Chae YJ/Kim SY and Chang YN/Lee SH v the newest experimenting partnership, Tang JH/Zhong QX. China best combo, Tian Q/Zhao YL is favoured to clear second round stage against Go AR/Yoo HW. The mixed doubles department second round almost goes to the scenario, only Ahmad/Natsir missed the target. Last year winner Zhang/Zhao and former winner Xu C/Ma J have Korean hurdle, Lee YD/Lee SH and Yoo YS/Chang YN respectively. Two potential tough battle at this stage, the much improved Ko SH/Kim HN v Jordan/Susanto and Liu C/Bao YX v Reginald Lee CH/Chau HW. LIVE TV (court 1, 01.00pm local time) matches : 1) Lee Chong Wei (MAS) v Chou Tien Chen (TPE) 2) P.V. Sindhu (IND) v Wang Shixian (CHN) 3) Brice Leverdez (FRA) v Lin Dan (CHN) 4) Cai Yun/Lu Kai (CHN) v Hiroyuki Endo/Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN) 5) Christinna Pedersen/Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN) v Naoko Fukuman/Kurumi Yonao (JPN)[/FONT]
Near perfect TV court lineup.. The only improvement could've been managing 2 WS matches TTY vs AY along with PV vs WSX.. Also selected WD match should've been GP/NKM vs TYT/YY
How tastes differs! I was thinking "what a strange choice for tv line up!" None of the exciting encounters mentioned by CLELY are there, except for WSX vs Sindhu
The day started with an upset Danish combo Niclas NOHR and Sara THYGESEN ousted local young combo Lu Kai/HUANG Yaqiong in straight games!!!
I hope SWH vs Kento will be a cracker. Hard to predict with SWH's up and down, Kento is much more reliable.
Despite LXR winning against Pai YP, I don't see her in top form. Perhaps she's beginning to feel the pressure which,I'm afraid,will only get worse as the tournament progresses.
Match of The Day: Lin Dan vs Brice Leverdez Meanwhile,Lover Duo in QF and Sung Ji Hyun on the brink of defeat.
This is the first time I have seen Chen Xiaoxin play and its nice to see this young players footwork and stroke play. She has lovely timing and strikes the shuttle well.She may have lost but I hope the coaches will develop her power and courtcraft. If this is how the CBA is developing their juniors, well done.
Just watched the match between Chen Xiaoxin and Okuhara. The scores not withstanding I find that Chen can actually engage Okuhara in her rally game. However while Okuhara's shots are very accurate and she hardly made any mistake, Chen on the other hand constantly smashed or placed her shots out or into the net.
