Similarly, the WD match between Ha Jung Eun/Hwang Yu Mi and Lena Frier-Kristensen/Kamilla Rytter-Juhl goes to 3 sets with very tight scores. The Danish pair won the first 22-20, but, the Korean levelled it at 21-18 in the second. The rubber set will be the last set to be played today and the Danes have a 6-1 lead. In the last MS match for today, Yousuke Nakanishi beat Hsieh Yu-Hsing 21-19, 21-15. His next opponent will be Eric Pang.
Another interesting statistics: 20 out of the 62 matches played today ended in rubber-sets, about 1/3 At the moment, 5 of these 20 matches (excluding the 2 WD results which are not yet updated) ended in deuce for the rubber set. So, the excitement level has generally increased?
The Danish pair, Lena Frier-Kristensen/Kamilla Rytter-Juhl won the match 22-20, 18-21, 21-17. That's all for today....matches started at 4pm HK time and ended at around 2:15am. A total of 10 hours++ of badminton in the first day of the World Championships 2006.
Hmm, sure, the level of excitement seemed to generally increased, but the time duration hasn't been much shorter than the previous scoring system. BTW, if i remember, the duration of time sounds about right, just like in last yr's WC. Thanks all for the updates and providing scoreboard..
LOL... serla and i were supporting kuan beng hong all the way and he won! hahaha... hope he can go further than usual though... kedah has lots of talented boys!
hmm, i believe, they used 5 courts in last yr's WC(same like any other tournaments)...and they used them til the R16 or QF round, if i'm not mistaken.. You can check these links for pics of the Opening Rds pics(sigh, can't believe it's been a yr already, seems like yesterday looking back @ those pics ): http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25957 http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25978 Re the longer/extended time for WS and WD, i can understand esp. going from 11 pts to 21 pts. But looking at the overall time, there isn't much difference with last yr's; as i thought IBF's goal in implementing a NSS is to "shortened" the time being played?!?!..
For news on Lee Hyo-jung, see Badzine. Some detail on Mette Scholdager's injury are on Raphael's IBF article. Both injuries were confirmed on Badzine's Newsflash.
She is a Chinese. Maybe a Malaysian Chinese hahahaha. Out of topic.. anyway tomorrow's matches will be very exciting.
Did anyone watch the match btween Sony and R.Must? At 2nd set when Must is 4-8 down to sony.. he made a mistake at a delicate net shot and immediately he screamed the F word so loud did anyone noticed?? lol
Yah, I have the same feeling as badMania. Yannie is Chinese but heavily influenced by the Malaysian juniors around her age! Malaysian Chinese speak Mandarin as well as English - like ants?
Hahaha... Yannie is 100% Chinese!! No doubt about that! Hahaha... If China against Malaysia, we'll support China, right yannie?!
