Venue : Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen-DEN Tournament website : http://www.denmark2014.com/Cms/ Order of Play : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=09C98312-A11A-4F8B-9CF9-0926A1777ADA Tournament time table : http://www.denmark2014.com/cms/?cmsid=430&pageid=13033 DEN time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wt...ma=Find%20Time Final four will present some top notch matches, here they are : MS Lee CW v Axelsen, a breakthrough performance by Danish young star, this should be his biggest achievement so far, Lee CW is unstoppable to make his third WC final Sugiarto v Chen L, the gruelling clash at stake, both of them certainly will be all out to eye first ever final tomorrow WS Li XR v Mitani, the Japanese WS has tremendous success here to knock out two seeded players en route to semis but the Olympic Champion is the fave to cruise into another WC final Marin v Sindhu, two bright young shuttlers who stunned China #3 and #2 respectively, it's gonna be their big day here to prove their talent, excellent! MD All KOR finals in the making unless home fave Boe/Mogensen could spring big upset to overcome formidable Lee YD/Yoo YS WD Two prominent CHN pairs will be challenged by their regular opponent, KOR and JPN WD. Lee SH/Shin SC has surprised third and sixth seed respectively in two consecutive days, will they do it again today to dump fifth seed the Olympic Champion? XD Local hero Fischer/Pedersen is surrounded by three CHN pairs at semifinal, two of them none but their familiar opponent and arch-rivals, Xu/Ma and ZZ. Same schedule with yesterday programme, the semifinal round has two session (10.00am and 05.00pm local time, 1 court).
All the factors and signs are favouring LCW, how can he not win this WC - no Lin Dan, Chen Long shaky, several pullouts of those who might pose a threat to him, and unexpected eliminations due to defeats or injuries of a couple of possible obstacles, notably JOJ.
Let the show begin.. The stage is set...10 nail biting matches is all I am expecting!!! MD and XD a bit boring as I am sure about the results..as always it's WS and MS bringing up the excitement...the oly champ the consistent Li and the unstoppable Lee are the hot faves but its not written on the stone.... The other to SFz surely are open to both the contenders young CM n PV will showcase their agility and talent..bring it on girls..(rooting for PV as she is my country mate) tommy seems to be very confident and composed OTOH CL had very easy road except a bit of stumbling to the reluctant Korean WHS!! Both seems to be equally good (rooting for CL because of his experience) As far as WD is concerned the Chinese ladies can be seen again with topping the table and to contest a thrilling all China finale..all the best...may the best player/pair wins!!!
[TABLE="class: ruler matches"] [TR] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR] [TD="align: right"]Sung Hyun Ko [12][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="align: right"]Baek Choel Shin[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Ki Jung Kim [5][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Sa Rang Kim[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]Walkover [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Sung/Shin been handed a walkover by their compatriots.
Excellent, that was going to be a dull affair anyway, and so will tomorrow's MD final with Lee Jaedong.
Korea withdrawing like that doesn't justify what China have done time and time again. It just makes Korea as bad as China. Basically it's a bad look for "Asians" and badminton in general. You must be Chinese or Korean if you don't feel the same way as me.