Here's the list of qualified players for Super Series Finals 2011, taken from BWF website : http://www.bwfbadminton.org/file_download.aspx?id=40674 Men's Singles 01) Lee Chong Wei (MAS) 02) Chen Long (CHN) 03) Lin Dan (CHN) 04) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN) 05) Kenichi Tago (JPN) 06) Sho Sasaki (JPN) 07) Taufik Hidayat (INA) 08) Simon Santoso (INA) Women's Singles 01) Wang Yihan (CHN) 02) Wang Xin (CHN) 03) Juliane Schenk (GER) 04) Saina Nehwal (IND) 05) Tine Baun (DEN) 06) Sayaka Sato (JPN) 07) Sung Ji Hyun (KOR) 08) Bae Youn Joo (KOR) Men's Doubles 01) Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng (CHN) 02) Jung Jae Sung/Lee Young Dae (KOR) 03) Mathias Boe/Carsten Mogensen (DEN) 04) Ko Sung Hyun/Yoo Yeon Seong (KOR) 05) Koo Kien Keat/Tan Boon Heong (MAS) 06) Chai Biao/Guo Zhendong (CHN) 07) Hirokatsu Hashimoto/Noriyasu Hirata (JPN) 08) Mohammad Ahsan/Bona Septano (INA) Women's Doubles 01) Wang Xiaoli/Yu Yang (CHN) 02) Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) 03) Mizuki Fujii/Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) 04) Ha Jung Eun/Kim Min Jung (KOR) 05) Shizuka Matsuo/Mami Naito (JPN) 06) Cheng Wen Hsing/Chien Yu Chin (TPE) 07) Christinna Pedersen/Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN) 08) Poon Lok Yan/Tse Ying Suet (HKG) Mixed Doubles 01) Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) 02) Joachim Fischer Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen (DEN) 03) Xu Chen/Ma Jin (CHN) 04) Chen Hung Ling/Cheng Wen Hsing (TPE) 05) Tantowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir (INA) 06) Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thoungthongkam (THA) 07) Robert Blair/Gabrielle White (SCO/ENG) 08) Shintaro Ikeda/Reiko Shiota (JPN) Seeding date => 1st December 2011 Drawing date => 13th December 2011
JPN is represented in all 5 events! A new powerhouse? That s terrific! How did Tago qualify? This is gonna be a most intriguing MS challenge. kOR WS gonna get punished for the treatment CHN players got in KOR GP Gold.
the bogey pair is not invincible, but koo/tan is not able to beat them. is something like a jinx for MAS pair.