Michelle Li has a fine run so far in this tournament, first beating Saina Nehwal, then Sung Ji Hyun. Highly commendable. A huge pity Saina failed to convert the decider with 4 matchpoints against Akane Yamaguchi yesterday. If only Saina who's coming back quite strongly of late has been a little more consistent and handled the crucial points better, she'd have bested akane, avoided defeat to Michelle, and, who knows, even took that match off Tai Tzu Ying at the AE. Anyway, hats off to Saina for having a second wind, not easy at all for a 28-yr-old veteran to do that given that almost all the top 10 WS players are getting younger and younger, generally in the 20-24 age group.
If GMT wins this one, I think INA will win WD2 and go through to SF. Then China will win and get to the final again.... But lets see first....
Gregoria is riding on her morale-boosting win over GFJ yesterday, running away with G1 against the established Jindapol.
Okuhara is winning by a comfortable margin. @Cunning Linguist Akane's "pathetic" match, win or lose has ensured an easy match for Okuhara.
Liu/Zhang leading 11-7 in G2. If they could keep this up, they would definitely contribute the 2nd point to CHN.
I suspect Nichaon Jindapon is letting the pressure of the occasion getting into her , playing in front of the home crowd and representing the host nation witrh expectations are running high for the THA UC team. Honestly, we've seen her play better than that.
This just looks like jindapol match yesterday I think she is just that type who likes playing from behind.
