The reason that INA National team will not participate SSFinal so Taufik has qualified then he does not have to play China Open plus he and other Single Olympic winners ( like Susi Susanti and Alan Budikusuma) have been invited by Macau for 10th year anniversary Macau back to China...
Last time, I checked with MAS, LCW. WMC and WPT/ECH are still going to China..because they can not change the route, some of them wil stay in Shanghai today and leave on Tuesday...been told that Hafiz has foot problem and Zakri/Tazari had flown back
Seems China badminton association is getting a big headache....tight schedule is really putting a big toll on everyone.
Seems like LCW is not going to China Open 2009 along with Gade according to the Chinese article below. Reason of withdrawal being fatigue. That's also a big possibility that LD, CJ and Cai/Fu are skipping CO 2009 even though this event is held under their home turf. However,this is only briefly mentioned in the article, so still not sure if this is the case. http://news.xinhuanet.com/sports/2009-11/15/content_12463170.htm Source from Xinhuanet (in Chinese) P/S: BWF got bashed hard in the article for having too many yearly tournaments and dubious world ranking calculation.
With possible so many top-names last minute pulling out, will BWF conduct a re-draw like Denmark SS last month?
wow, so many players withdraw from the tournament. seems like everybody is boycotting this tourney, payback for what they(china team) had done is so many tournaments