KNOCKOUT STAGE DRAW: COMPETITION SCHEDULE: Friday 19 May 2023 10am: TPE v KOR, THA v JPN 5pm: CHN v INA, DEN v MAS Saturday 20 May 2023 10am: Semifinal 1 5pm: Semifinal 2 Sunday 21 May 2023 2pm: Final DAILY SCHEDULE/RESULTS/LIVESCORE: https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=A8920452-3D1B-4964-ABD7-6AC0E6AC3CCC 2021 MEDALLISTS: Gold - China Silver - Japan Bronze - South Korea / Malaysia GROUP STAGE RESULTS: SMOOTH SAILING? No major upsets in the group stage as all seeded teams make it through to the quarterfinal stage. The only upsets came in winning the group as both JPN and INA fail to live up to their seeding and lost their group matches against THA and KOR respectively. China cruises to the top of their group with DEN joining them. Small scare in group stage against SGP for World Champions Zheng SW and Huang YQ as Terry Hee and Jessica Tan were playing at their best but fail to convert this to a win. Now they face INA who lost their last group match against THA 2-3. Key moment in that tie was Christie failing to convert an 18-14 lead and match point in deciding game against Vitidsarn. Will be interesting to see whether INA can upset CHN's smooth sailing Sudirman Cup so far on home soil and will likely rest on INA winning MD, MS, and WS/WD. JPN is whitewashed by KOR in their final group match. Watanabe/Higashino suffer their third straight loss against Kim WH/Jeong NE, albeit this time in three games. Nishimoto wasn't able to get over his 1-5 H2H against Jeon HJ despite their last meeting being back in 2017 and recent good form in European leg of World Tour this year. Yamaguchi faltered against An SY and Fukushima/Hirota suffer their first ever loss against Baek HN/Lee SH. Now they face THA who won Group B in a thriller against INA. MD and WD seem to have JPN as favorites but XD, MS, and WS are happening first in this tie so THA can grab the tie the same way they won Group B if they win the first three matches. KOR won the group and TPE are runners-up to MAS after only Tai TY won the lone point in that tie. XD and WD are pretty solid KOR points so TPE depends strongly on Chou TC, Tai TY and Lee Y/Ye HW to win the tie for them. Uphill battle for DEN to beat MAS who overperformed in group stage. Axelsen vs Lee ZJ (or Ng TY) promises to be a thriller and DEN's MD and XD can probably put up a challenge but a weak WS and WD puts DEN at a significant disadvantage here.
errr personally i think DEN WS still has decent chance vs GJW that said i am expecting MAS to beat DEN
Mia vs GJW....if Mia keeps extending the rallies...Mia has a chance...GJW is a skillful players limited by her physical condition
Why did korea spilt their MD? Isnt kim won ho regular partner choi sol gyu? More important why did they switch out JHJ in MS
My predictions: Taipei (3) vs Korea (2) - XD : Korea - MS : Taipei - WS : Taipei - MD : Taipei - WD : Korea Japan (3) vs Thailand (2) - XD : Tha - MS : Tha - WS : Jpn - MD : Jpn - WD : Jpn
Ratchanok is not playing vs JPN. Is she way past her prime like Saina Nehwal? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Lee Yang is an Olympic gold medalist and this MD was just beat Setty/RR, while Korean MD Kim/Na was relatively inexperienced. I actually doubt in WS, where Taipei and Korea have the same opportunity depending on who is more fit and ready. This 3:2 score could belong to Taipei or Korea.
Korea has way better MS and MD in their team, this risk they are taking either to juz give them a break or something is a huge one. SSJ could play twice and they could still field him and KMY.
Hmmm..., Yamashita/Shinoya came back from the brink of defeat in G2 (17-20 down), and are now applying pressure on the more established Thai pair.
The audience cheered for the Thai pair at 20-17 in the second set, incidentally ''waking up'' Shinoya/Yamashita
Both ASY and PC won their matches! Korea strong favourite now to win the WD and qualify for the SF Thailand unfortunately still have an uphill battle, should've won XD. KV must be under immense pressure. Having said that JPN does choke in bigger events.
