The World Badminton Championships has seen a lot of actions, expectations and disappointments for the players in Hyderabad,India. Some big names were knocked out of the tournaments in the early rounds such as China's Bao Chunlai and China's woman's single player Wang Yihan. It was not their day and well better luck next time for these seeded players. Other seasoned players who were knocked out include Korean Park Sung Hwan and Danish player Joachim Persson who were seeded 8th and 7th respectively.
However some upsets by unseeded players like Denmark's Dan O Jorgensen's win over Park Sung Hwan and Germany's Juliane Schenk's win over Wang Yihan add to the excitement of the day.
As expected the top players went on to secure their places in the quarter-final. They inculde Lee Chong Wei, Lin Dan, Peter Gade, Taufik, Chen Jin and Simon Santoso
The women's players include Xie Xingfang, Lu Lan, Zhou Mi, Saina Nehwal, Tine Rasmussen, Juliane Schenk and Pi Hongyan.
As we go through to the quarter-finals we should expect more excitements throughout the tournaments.
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Yonex-Sunrise World Badminton Championship
The World Badminton Championship was held in Hyderabad, a southern Indian city. The tournament was held at GMC Balayogi Stadium. The event was plaqued by terrorists threats resulting in the pull-out of the 8-man team from England. The Russian doubles pair of Valeri Sorokina and Nina Vislova withdrew from the event giving the organisers another headache. In the light of the situation security was enhanced around the tournament venue.
The Singapore team however was having some sort of mixed results. The men's doubles pair of Hendri Saputra and Hendra Wijaya defeated the Netherland's pair of Ruud Bosch and Koen Ridder with a 21-15, 19-21, 21-16 in the opening round. However in the ladie's singles Singapore's Fu Mingtian went down to Bulgaria's Linda Zechiri with a score of 21-15, 21-15.
In the men's singles world number one Lee Chong Wei cruised to 21-14, 21-10 over German player Dieter Domke into the 2nd round. In another game China's Lin Dan easily passed his Isreali opponent Misha Zilberman with 21-9, 21-11. But another Chinese player Bao Chunlai did not make it pass Dicky Palyama from the Netherlands. In the major upset Bao Chunlai lost 18-21, 14-21 in straight sets to the Dutch player.
Let's wait for more exciting results.
The Singapore team however was having some sort of mixed results. The men's doubles pair of Hendri Saputra and Hendra Wijaya defeated the Netherland's pair of Ruud Bosch and Koen Ridder with a 21-15, 19-21, 21-16 in the opening round. However in the ladie's singles Singapore's Fu Mingtian went down to Bulgaria's Linda Zechiri with a score of 21-15, 21-15.
In the men's singles world number one Lee Chong Wei cruised to 21-14, 21-10 over German player Dieter Domke into the 2nd round. In another game China's Lin Dan easily passed his Isreali opponent Misha Zilberman with 21-9, 21-11. But another Chinese player Bao Chunlai did not make it pass Dicky Palyama from the Netherlands. In the major upset Bao Chunlai lost 18-21, 14-21 in straight sets to the Dutch player.
Let's wait for more exciting results.
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