STADE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN | Paris-FRA Total Prize Money : US$750,000 Tournament website : https://www.yonexifb.com/uk/home Tournament schedule : https://www.yonexifb.com/uk/the-competition/schedule Daily Order of Play/Result/LiveScore : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=8FD27ADF-A823-42B0-817A-7AC3AAE1CFDD BWF World Tour Page : https://bwfworldtour.bwfbadminton.com/tournament/3157/yonex-french-open-2018/results/draw/ms LIVE STREAMING : - http://videostream.dn.ua/videopage/videoPage.php?g=c2J2b2JoK2F0Y3ZsbmhZ&c=en&i=eWlhaXVidGd1bA№f№f - http://sportstream365.com/other - https://smashnation7.com/ - BWF Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChh-akEbUM8_6ghGVnJd6cQ FRA time : https://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=6409&forma=Find Time 2017 WINNERS => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/...88223D-BBC2-45EB-AC19-8CE0DB7DE8BE&d=20171029 MS - Kidambi Srikanth (IND) WS - Tai Tzu Ying (TPE) MD - Lee Jhe Huei/Lee Yang (TPE) WD - Greysia Polii/Apriani Rahayu (INA) XD - Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir (INA) DRAW (Excel format) : https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/events/3157/docs/French Open 2018 _ DRAW _Updated Tuesday, 02nd October 2018_.XLSX The Super 750 BWF World Tour will make stop in Paris, world's fashion icon and one of popular tourist destination cities. Almost similar with last week Denmark Open ensemble cast to stage exciting yet entertaining six-day badminton action, giving another chance for players who had unsatisfying result in Odense to reverse their fortune at Stade Pierre de Coubertin. Total prize money has been upgraded significantly from last year edition, US$325,000. Men’s singles top-half of draw contains heavyweight composition with no less than reigning World Champion Kento Momota, European Champion Viktor Axelsen, defending champion Kidambi Srikanth, two Chinese distinguished shuttlers Chen Long and Lin Dan. Momota is slated to face two-time Olympic Champion Lin in last sixteen and high possibly Srikanth in quarters. On the opposite draw, the on-fire Anthony Ginting alongside with resurgent Chou Tien Chen occupy 8th and 4th seed respectively and may face off in last eight, two off-form top 10 players, Son Wan Ho also Shi Yuqi fill remaining seeding position. Three-time World Champion Carolina Marin pulled out from this tournament due to elbow injury, leaving a limping draw in third quadrant of WS draw, golden opportunity for the unseededs Mia Blichfeldt, Lee Chia Hsin and Gregoria Mariska to capitalise it and catch the momentum here. Akane Yamaguchi-Pusarla V.Sindhu and He Bingjiao are possible quarterfinalists at lower half draw. On top-half, Okuhara-Nehwal rematch probably will occur in second round here, winner of this tie would meet top-seed Tai Tzu Ying while Chen Yufei and Ratchanok Intanon would be another quarterfinal script to offer. The Minions skipped this event last year then they will make amends to complete extraordinary title collection in BWF tournaments. Scenario tells no serious threat who can halt this near invincible duo unless they suffer mental fatigue, taking part many tournaments regularly. Two interesting opening contest in this category will present last year runner-up Boe/Mogensen will up against former World Champion Liu C/Zhang N. Also tough path for Lee JH/Lee Y to defend their crown, Japanese number one Kamura/Sonoda will be their first round opponent. In women’s doubles discipline, China is trying to experiment new partnerships, this time Huang Yaqiong will be paired up with Huang Dongping, both of them are top two world rank in mixed doubles discipline. But, an uphill task for their debut to face world number one Fukushima/Hirota very early. Title-holder Polii/Rahayu also have tough challenger to begin their campaign, Chinese youngsters Du Y/Li YH. It's rest of the world against Japan formidable squad. Looking at the draw roughly, strongest contender Zheng/Huang are pedicted to safely through into semifinal considering their fantastic display lately, barring any huge upset it's tough chance for others who could deny their mission in Paris. Defending champion Ahmad/Natsir have tricky path en route to last four, particularly in last eight. Pre-tournament favourites Tang CM/Tse YS, Wang YL/Huang DP should be aware from the unseeded pairs that could tackle them where the twisting plot happened in Odense. First round will be separated by two days : - Tuesday : Bottom-half of draw (all five disciplines) - Wednesday : Top-half of draw MATCH HIGHLIGHTS - Kidambi Srikanth (IND) v Vincent Wong Wiing Ki (HKG) - Sameer Verma (IND) v Jonatan Christie (INA) - Chen Long (CHN) v Brice Leverdez (FRA) - Tommy Sugiarto (INA) v Son Wan Ho (KOR) - Chen Yufei (CHN) v Nitchaon Jindapol (THA) - Zhang Beiwen (USA) v Pusarla V.Sindhu (IND) - Michelle Li (CAN) v Akane Yamaguchi (JPN) - Liu C/Zhang N (CHN) v Boe/Mogensen (DEN) - Astrup/Rasmussen (DEN) v He JT/Tan Q (CHN) - Lee JH/Lee Y (TPE) v Kamura/Sonoda (JPN) - Fukushima/Hirota (JPN) v Huang DP/Huang YQ (CHN) - Polii/Rahayu (INA) v Du Y/Li YH (CHN) - Adcock/Adcock (ENG) v Rankireddy/Ponnappa (IND) - Faizal/Widjaja (INA) v Tang CM/Tse YS (HKG) ROUND OF 32 - Part 1 (Tuesday) => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...D27ADF-A823-42B0-817A-7AC3AAE1CFDD&d=20181023 **The withdrawal list will be updated after team's manager meeting that will be conducted this evening (07.00pm local time)**
Withdrawal and replacement list MS Viktor Axelsen -> Ygor Coelho Ander Antonsen -> Jan Ø Jorgensen Wang Tzu Wei -> Lucas Corvee WS Pai Yu Po -> Rachel Honderich Carolina Marin -> Linda Zetchiri MD Conrad/Kolding -> Dunn/Hall Alfian/Ardianto -> Chew/Chew WD Awanda/Haris -> Jaques/Vandenhoucke Tang/Yu -> Bøje/Lundgaard XD Tan/Lai -> Nielsen/Bøje
List of players who won SS for the first time in France since 2012. 2012 - Daren Liew, Minatsu Mitani 2013 - Marcus Fernaldi Gideon 2014 - Chou Tien Chen 2015 - Huang Yaqiong 2016 - Shi Yuqi, Jia Yifan 2017 - Lee Jhe-huei, Lee Yang, Apriyani Rahayu 2018 - ? Who is the new WT500+ winner in this French Open?
yes, he withdrew from French Open last year. I just checked the Hongkong Open M&Q list, VA also withdrew from the tournament. This means that VA will be absent in both French Open and Hongkong Open in two consecutive years. I think that he has some kind of injury given that he decides to withdrew from Hongkong Open
According to Axelsen's Instagram, he has a right ankle injury. Axelsen says 6-9 weeks before competitve play.
Have to be worried for VA. He seems injury prone, not gonna get better as he gets older. Is this the same ankle injury that prevents him playing at AE this year?
what is going on? i just heard Natsir decides to retire and won't be participating in this French open... the match vs ZhengHuang in Den semi is her last international tournament she said.... wth anyone can confirm this?
Oh, damn, that's really bad for VA. He won't be able to qualify for World Tour Final. Looks like he will be out for the rest of this year. He is young, but unfortunately he is injury prone. It will be hard for him in the future. any source for that? as far as i know, she said that this is the last Denmark Open for her. She will still play until, maybe, January 2019.
French Open is Super 750 now. One level up. That was before Liu Cheng became this new level of error prone-ish this year.
Well, I wrote WT500+. This also includes WT750 and WT1000. I don't watch Liu/Zhang match this year so I don't know much about it. It looks to me that top MD pairs have dropped their performance. None of them perform well lately in terms of result. Minions didn't play good this summer, but still win Indonesia Open this year. Good for minions as they don't lose R1/R2 while most of the top MD pairs have lost in R1/R2 in some occasion.
Ah okay. Didn't realize you meant it that way. Minions played rather well in Indonesia Open actually. A bit troubled at the beginning but after winning the QF against Madses they played really well in Semi against Fajar/Rian and Final against Inoue/Kaneko. Liu/Zhang.. let's say their most brilliant performances this year were in Thomas Cup and Asian Games team event. The rest were pretty much as if LC were playing in his own dimension. Zhang Nan had no idea, we had no idea, but hopefully he will have the answers soon.
Zhang Nan, for all of his achievements, still fails to win one individual tournament this year. This is definitely not right for him. He used to win several titles in the past few years, but not this year. I fear that Liu/Zhang partnership will be separated if they keep their slump performance. I don't know what happen to other MD pairs. I thought Li/Liu are the most stable MD pairs after minions, especially after their WC titles. But, apparently, their results are not satisfying. MD has really changed. Chen/Wang climbed to the 5th rank. Kim/Anders become DEN MD1. Can't really predict MD category anymore.
If he could win a double title on his own, ZN would have won a few. Unfortunately he is stuck with LC for the moment. I guess this year's busy schedule and injuries might have something to do with it. Many players injured and not having enough time to recover between the tournaments.
It's normal condition where all top ten players are ups and downs, changing position in BWF World Ranking. The unpredictable result becomes more interesting stuff in sport
