Maria Febe is through to the main draw after beating the third Singaporean in a row , Fu Mingtian, in straight-sets 21-7, 21-12. Krisna will be thrilled by this news She will play against Anu Nieminen tomorrow. The junior MD pair, Alfiat Yuris Wirawan/Wiqfi Windarto also impressed after a second victory today, this time over Andrew Bowman/Kristian Roebuck 21-18, 21-16. They will face Howard Bach/Bob Khan Malaythong tomorrow. Not too bad, a 1670 addition to their WR point by next week
Earlier, Anggun Nugroho/Nitya Krishinda also progress through to the main draw after a 21-16, 21-19 victory over Chris Langridge/Joanne Nicholas. They will face Chen Hong-Ling/Chou Chia-Chi tomorrow...another manageable tie IMHO.
Febe defeated 3 Singaporeans today... [how come they lumped so many Singaporeans in her qualification draw. No national separation or something?!?] Febe vs. Yao Lei 21-9, 21-8 Febe vs. Chen Jiayuan 21-18, 23-21 Febe vs. Fu Mingtian 21-7, 21-12 And yes, badMania, you are right [as usual]. Febe and Wifqi-Alfiat need the 1670 WR points ahead of the Asian Juniors and World Juniors... Better seeding means that Febe don't have to play Sania Nehwal or the good Koreans... and Wifqi-Alfiat can avoid that tough Malaysian MD Junior [forgot their names]...
Lim Khim Wah/Mak Hee Chun (dunno if they are eligible as juniors anymore) or Mohd Arif Latif/Vountus Indra Mawan?
as expected as Ratnasari played 2 matches that lasted 3 tight sets each......there is no energy to play zhou Mi..even she has...still tough to beat ZM...
Fu Ming Tian also played WD as well...thats tough to play all 5 matches in one day.....hope Fu Ming Tian learned this lesson.....
If Febe defeats Anu Nieminen tomorrow, then she will get 2720 WR points... That means, after this week, Febe will have more ranking points than Pia Zebadiah... in the PBSI calculation... Thus, Febe can be INA #3 sooner than I thought...
I don't think she has... Last year, during the Singapore Satellite, she played 5-6 matches per day as well... In her last match against INA's Maria Elfira, she could not move smoothly anymore... Poor Mingtian...
Although I also think Maria Elfira qualifies to be INA #3, because she is better than Maria Febe... [fact: Maria Elfira defeated Maria Febe so many times lately] ...the PBSI rankings said otherwise. Just visit www.pb-pbsi.net ... Further facts to strengthen the opinion that Maria Elfira should be #3 is: the defeated Pia Zebadiah in a very lopsided straight sets last Friday during the Superliga Badminton. Pia did barely defeated Maria Elfira a few days before that with a long rubber set. But after Maria figured Pia out, last Friday was not even close... As for Nana [Fransisca Ratnasari], Maria Febe defeated her in a one-sided straight-set win in INA Open this May.
I hope Maria Kristin can break into the top 10 soon. when was the last time INA had a WS player in the top 10?
Make that Lidia Djaelawidjaya in 2002. She retired in the middle of 2002, but in the early part of year 2002, her ranking was still within top 10.
I believe these young Singapore players (sourced from China) do not have a choice and they have been asked to play both singles and doubles matches. imho they are singles players and it felt weird watching these singles players play doubles. The only specialist doubles players we have are Li Yujia/Jiang Yanmei and the Saputra brothers.
