BWF has conducted drawing for all five disciplines, here's the preview : http://bwfworldchampionships.com/ne...gain-total-bwf-world-championships-2018-draw/ Men's Singles => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=0A074714-6125-4D05-8B24-EF5594A30C02&draw=12 Women's Singles => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=0A074714-6125-4D05-8B24-EF5594A30C02&draw=11 Men's Doubles => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=0A074714-6125-4D05-8B24-EF5594A30C02&draw=10 Women's Doubles => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=0A074714-6125-4D05-8B24-EF5594A30C02&draw=9 Mixed Doubles => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=0A074714-6125-4D05-8B24-EF5594A30C02&draw=8 DRAW (Excel format) : https://bwfextranet.com/docs/events/3213/docs/Draws TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018.XLSX Men's Singles The Chinese trio are drawn in top-half alongside with top-seed Viktor Axelsen, Ng Ka Long, Chou Tien Chen, Prannoy. Premature clash will pit All England Champion Shi Yuqi versus five-time World Champion Lin Dan in last sixteen while defending champion Axelsen is slated to meet the Olympic Champion Chen Long in quarterfinal. Second seed Lee Chong Wei, Kento Momota, Kidambi Srikanth are top contenders of bottom-half draw. Malaysian star Lee once again will face tricky test Brice Leverdez who created huge upset and brought misery for Lee's campaign last year in Glasgow. The on-fire Kento Momota should have no problem to pass preliminary rounds considering his superb form lately and possibly facing last year bronze medalist Son Wan Ho. Women's Singles Hot favourite Tai Tzu Ying is slated to meet Zhang Beiwen in last sixteen and either He Bingjiao or Michelle Li in last eight. Ratchanok Intanon, Carolina Marin, Saina Nehwal, Sayaka Sato fill second quadrant seeding position. Title-holder Nozomi Okuhara has possible meeting with arch-rival Pusarla Sindhu in last eight, another quarterfinal showdown will present Akane Yamaguchi-Chen Yufei showdown, rematch of last year edition. Men's Doubles World number one Gideon/Sukamuljo will find their first test on third round, former All England champion Ivanov/Sozonov then Kamura/Sonoda or Alfian/Ardianto at quarters and barring any upsets will face Boe/Mogensen in semifinal. Title-holder Liu/Zhang are expected to meet the in-form Japanese pair Endo/Watanabe in last sixteen then most likely Conrad/Kolding in last eight. Women's Doubles Reigning world champion Chen/Jia have tough route to defend their crown, Indonesian number one Polii/Rahayu and two Japanese pairs the Olympic Champion Matsutomo/Takahashi, Matsumoto/Nagahara will pose the biggest stumbling block. A mild composition at the opposite draw which comprises of Fukushima/Hirota, Tanaka/Yonemoto, Lee SH/Shin SC, Haris/Pradipta Mixed Doubles Top-two seeds Chinese hotshots, Zheng SW/Huang YQ, Wang YL/Huang DP have complicated task that await them in third round, the well-improved Faizal/Widjaja and All England Champion Watanabe/Higashino respectively. As two-time World Champion Ahmad/Natsir declined the invitation following their decision to focus on Asian Games, we will witness new World Champion in this category.
This is probably the best chance for Zheng/Huang to attain the World Championship crown, on their home land. Especially with Tontowi/Natsir declining the invitation. The most dangerous foes should be from Yuta/Arisa, beside from their own teammates.
Interesting WS draw! TTY might see RI standing between her and the title. Also to mention a tough bottom half packed with NO, PVS, AY and CYF Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Leverdez in Lee’s Way…Again – TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018 Draw Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei can expect a bumpy start to his quest for a first World title when he tackles Brice Leverdez in the opening round of the TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018 in Nanjing, China. The Men’s Singles second seed crashed out of last year’s World Championships to the Frenchman at the same stage, which signalled Lee’s earliest exit from the event following a series of silver medal-winning performances. The Lee-Leverdez blockbuster was one of the many interesting early clashes that materialised when the TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018 Draw Ceremony was conducted at the BWF office in Kuala Lumpur today. MEN’S SINGLES Reigning World champion Viktor Axelsen (Denmark) is seeded to face Olympic champion Chen Long (China) in the quarter-finals, while other Chinese big names such as Shi Yuqi and five-time champion Lin Dan might run into each other in the third round of the second quarter. Asian champion Kento Momota (Japan), who is in red-hot form, is in the third quarter with Anders Antonsen (Denmark) and Son Wan Ho (Korea), while second seed Lee, India’s Kidambi Srikanth and recent TOYOTA Thailand Open winner Kanta Tsuneyama (Japan) are in the bottom quarter. WOMEN’S SINGLES Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying – winner of four events this year – might have to contend with USA’s Beiwen Zhang in the third round, and China’s He Bingjiao or Canada’s Michelle Li in the quarter-finals. Reigning champion Nozomi Okuhara (Japan), could face either compatriot Aya Ohori or Malaysia’s Goh Jin Wei in the third round. A quarter-final clash against India’s Pusarla V Sindhu – against whom she triumphed in an epic World Championships final last year – is a distinct possibility. MEN’S DOUBLES Top seeds Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, who have won four of their five events this season, are seeded to face Celcom Axiata Malaysia Open champions Takeshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda (Japan) in the quarter-finals. Defending World champions Liu Cheng/Zhang Nan (China) are seeded second and have a tricky road ahead, with the likelihood of facing Hong Kong’s Or Chin Chung/Tang Chun Man in the second round and Japan’s Hiroyuki Endo/Yuta Watanabe in the third. WOMEN’S DOUBLES Top seeds and defending champions Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan (China) have not won a tournament this season, and will look to redeem themselves at the World Championships at home. A third-round clash against compatriots Du Yue/Li Yinhui, followed by a quarter-final against TOYOTA Thailand Open champions Greysia Polii/Apriyani Rahayu (Indonesia) is likely. The feature of the Women’s Doubles draw is the presence of the top four Japanese pairs – including Olympic champions Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi and World Championships silver medallists Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota, who are in separate halves. MIXED DOUBLES The category will see new champions, as winners of recent editions have either not entered the tournament or have retired. Top seeds Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong (China) will expect a tough challenge in the third round, as they are seeded to face Thailand Open winners Hafiz Faizal/Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja (Indonesia). Today’s Draw Ceremony was attended by Toshihiro Maki, Cultural Attache & Second Secretary from the Embassy of Japan; Cheng Xiangyang, Deputy Secretary-General, Director of Venue Operation and Director of Marketing of the World Championships 2018; Gillian Wu, Senior Advertising & Communications Executive, TOTAL Marketing & Services Asia Pacific & Middle East; and officials and players from the Badminton Association of Malaysia. BWF Referee Nahathai Sornprachum oversaw the draw process. BWF Chief Operating Officer Stuart Borrie welcomed the guests and media and thanked the city of Nanjing for hosting the event. Toshihiro Maki, Stuart Borrie, Cheng Xiangyang, BWF Chair of Finance Committee Lim Teong Kiat, and Gillian Wu assisted in the electronic draw for the different categories. ***** Speaking of the Mixed Doubles draw, Olympic silver medallist Goh Liu Ying said she was confident of a strong showing. “I’m happy with our performance at the BLIBLI Indonesia Open, where we reached the final,” said the Malaysian star. “I hope our form continues through the World Championships and the Asian Games. We are on the right track and we are working hard in training.” Her compatriots Tan Wee Kiong and Goh V Shem, who are seeded 13th in Men’s Doubles, expect to face team-mates Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi in the second round. “We know each other’s style well,” said Tan. “To play your team-mates is more difficult than to play some other pairs. It will be harder than a normal game.” The TOTAL BWF World Championships 2018 will be held from 30 July to 5 August. [Source]
they're too early to face each other, meanwhile another MAS new pair Aaron Chia/ Soh Wooi Yik open their first time WC match against KOR pair Chung Eui Seok/Kim Duk Young, who has beaten Goh/Tan in last year second round of WC2017...
I thought that at the press con photo above, both TWK and GVS are trying to keep such a distance between them. And yes, there is possibility to have early rounds surprise in this World Championships
From a kidambi fan's perspective this is a bad draw with potential LCW Qf and Momota SF .The mental demons against both forces unforced errors from KS. But if the Kidambi red hot wave(without simple unforced errors from half court+playing his normal controlled attack) is on display ,he will become a leZend.
Bad draw for China especially playing at home. They actually invite players paying for tickets and hotels right? Anyway : LD vs SYQ in R3(seriously out of all?), CQC/JYF vs DY/LYH in R3, Li/Liu & Liu/Zhang one will be out before Final. Best chance is in XD and WS, imo. i feel like CYF/HBJ can win it.
Yeah, agree, the draw is unkind to Team China, esp for MS where not only Lin Dan and Shi Yuqi are slated to meet in R3, sadly, but also all the four CHN MS are in the same top half. That's why I feel both LCW and Momota, esp the latter, are the two front-runners for the crown, the one who emerged finalist from the bottom half is likely to be world champion eventually. Between the two, Momota has the edge according to the form book and their age gap as by the time of the semifinals, the 5th round actually, accumulated fatigue is expected to take a toll on the much older athlete as opposed to the younger man in his prime. Personally, I doubt anyone in the top half has much of a fighting chance against the two bottom half aforementioned , the more so if Momota is the finalist from the opposite half. I think I need not elaborate on why I think any of the four or five possible finalists in the top half can have more than a 50% chance of beating LCW, and the probability drops to 40% at most if Momota is the one standing across the net on final's day.
And, btw, I'm not the least bit surprised at all that the CHN organizer is paying for the players' expenses in airtickets and hotel accommodation, since there's no prize money and they can well afford it if they wish to raise the profile and standing of Nanjing city and ensure the success of the world event.
Funny, I think they have a good draw. Both the WS have easier draws than higher seeded opponents. SYQ and LD both have easy first rounds and overall an easier road to the final than - say - higher seeded LCW. Good draw for SYQ, the upper half of the draw looks significantly easier. CQC/JYF surely don't give a toss about having to play compatriots, on the contrary. They are probably delighted that they can play the rather average DY/LYH in R3 and avoid similarly ranked Nagamatsu, who beat them in straight games in Indonesia, or Haris/Pradipta who did the same to them earlier this year. Even more tragic, the fate of the seeded Chinese MD. They're going to meet as early as the semi final. How will they be able to overcome this injustice? Hint: all four Indonesian MD are in the top half and will kick each other in the second round, QF and SF respectively. Li/Liu are probably happy that they are not in the minion half of the draw and thus have a bigger chance of actually making the final. H2H against ZN/LC: 4:1. Against Minions: 1:6. XD - great draw, 4 pairs, two in each half, possible 3 out of 4 semifinalists. That's close to ideal. Overall really good draw for China, with the only exception being MS. I don't understand your sentiment at all.
Do you think there was a bigger possibility for an all CHN final in WD when DY/LYH were in the other side of the draw? CQC and JYF are the one good shot at the title. The easier their draw, the better. In WS both top players are in different halves and have good first rounds. Top notch then. Same for XD. MS is not particularly nice with the best three in the top half, but more in terms of home crowd attraction. If you'd ask the top Chinese player (SYQ) if he'd prefer to play a group of a) LD, CTC, CL, VA or b) AG, SK, LCW, KM on his way to a possible final, I think he might go with option a) these days. Anyway, it's only really MS that is "bad". The rest is fine. 4 out of 5 doesn't sound that bad to me.
