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World Championships 2010

CHINA MAY NOT ENJOY FAVOURABLE SEEDINGS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

 

With the 2010 World Championships due in Paris from 23-29 August, there may be worrying thoughts about how Chinese players will perform. The concern would be whether they will yet again dominate the series as they have been doing in the past, primarily in the Singles and the ladies events.

 

This is due to China’s absence from a number of Super Series and World Grand Prix events in recent times. This has affected its players’ position in world ranking in nearly all disciplines.

 

The Seeding and Draw for badminton’s premier event will be held in Kuala Lumpur on 9th August and it will be based on the Badminton World Federation ranking of 5th August.

This would effectively make the Macau Open of 27th July as the final event for ranking points accumulation before the draw. With none of its top players participating in Macau, China may have a fight on its hands when the Seeding and Draw are finally announced.

 

In Men Singles, Lee Chong Wei and Peter Gade are currently ranked 1st and 2nd with Chen Jin and Lin Dan in 3rd and 4th position. With both the Malaysian and the Dane in action in Macau, the position will not change. Lin Dan will be the defending champion in Paris.

 

In Women Singles, Saina Nehwal has made huge inroads into Chinese domination of that event. With three successive wins – India, Singapore and Indonesia – the 20-year old Indian has reached unprecedented heights, to lodge herself as the 2nd ranked player. This is a first for a non-Chinese in many years. Of course, an Indian player has never been ranked among the top ten in the world.

 

With only Lu Lan, ranked 9th by BWF participating in Macau, the list for the 9th August seeding is not except to change. Chinese players Wang Yihan and Wang Xin at 1st & 3rd with Saina sandwiched in-between while Wang Shixian is ranked 4th and Tine Baun (the former Rasmussen) is 5th.  Lu Lan won the title last year.

 

In Men Doubles, defending champions Cai Yun & Fu Haipeng will not be in Paris. China will have to pin its hopes on Guo Zhengdong & Chen Yu, who will enter the fray as the 4th ranked. Their absence from the Macau Open later this month will not help their cause. They will have Malaysia’s Koo Kien Kiat & Tan Boon Heong, Hendra Setiawan & Markis Kido and the Mathias Boe & Carsten Mogensen to worry about.

 

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INDIA WINS TWO AND LOSES THREE IN ITS OPEN
Monday, 14 Jun 2010
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CHONG WEI SET TO DOMINATE SINGAPORE AND INDONESIAN OPENS
Friday, 11 Jun 2010
CHONG WEI SET TO DOMINATE SINGAPORE AND INDONESIAN OPENS The Super Series 2010 band-wagon will start rolling again when its fifth leg, the Singapore Open starts at the National Indoor Stadium on 15 th of this month. This will be followed by the Indonesian Open a week later at the Istora Senayan. These events follow the already completed opening four legs for the year – the Korean, Malaysian, All England and the Swiss legs - after a break to accommodate the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals. Unfortunately, the announcement that Chinese players will not be participating in both the Singapore and Jakarta tournaments is bound to take much shine off the two championships. Of particular interest would have been the expected clash between Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan. It will be recalled that the Malaysian won all three opening legs of the Super Series 2010 but skipped the Swiss Open. Lin Dan meanwhile had skipped the first three legs and was eliminated at the quarter-finals of the Swiss Open. But the Chinese ace retuned with a comprehensive across-the-board performance at the Thomas Cup Finals in Kuala Lumpur , that saw him make absurd of Chong Wei’s ranking as the world’s No. 1with straight games destruction of the All England champion in the China-Malaysia semi-final tie. The appetizing prospect of seeing them in their first Super Series clash for the year fizzled out when China informed the World Federation that its players would be involved in its own national league during the Singapore and Indonesian Opens and thus would not be able to make the trip to Singapore and Jakarta .

MALAYSIA GOES BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
Thursday, 03 Jun 2010
News from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur speak of the nation still trying to come to terms with its recent failure to win the Thomas Cup on home ground. Prior the Finals, expectations were high that its players were ready to claim the coveted trophy they last won in 1992. That confidence stemmed from the fact that the team comprised players who occupied top world ranking in both the Singles and Doubles, had a period of prolonged centralized training under specialist coaches plus the advantage of the Finals being played at the familiar Putra Badminton stadium, the scene of many a Malaysian success in the past.




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