Revamped!
It's the year 2008 and this site will be fully revamp!
It's been about 2 years since the last update, very sorry for that. Come next week, new updates will be posted and (phew!) the site will be up and running again!
I know there have been more interest in the Singapore badminton scene recently due to Kendrick Lee's marvellous run in the 2007 SEA Games. So as to support our true-blue Singaporean shuttler and the rest of the team, i have decided to get this site back up to share with all badminton enthusiasts the latest badminton news!
Profiles, photos will be duely uploaded, so stay tuned!
For any enquiries, leave a comment. Thank you!
Macau Open Day 2
Men's, Women's SinglesSad to say, both our male singles shuttlers crashed out of the tournament.
Kendrick Lee failed to make the round 1/16 as he lost to Korea's rising star Park Sung Hwan 21-16, 21-17.
Ronald Susilo was then defeated by Chen Hong 16-21, 18-21.
However, Li Li did cause some smile by entering the quarter-finals!
She overcame Korea's Kang Hae Won 21-14, 21-19 to set up a quarter-final showdown with Hong Kong's Yip Pui Yin.
I believe she has a very good chance of entering the semi-finals once again.
Men's, Women's and Mixed DoublesAll of our shuttlers in these 3 events made it to the next round.
Brothers Hendry Saputra/Hendra Wijaya defeats Jurgen WOUTERS /Ruud BOSCH of the Netherlands 21-16, 21-16 to set up a fight with China's No.2 Guo Zhendong/Zheng Bo.
I believe that will be the Match of the Round =)
Go Singapore!
Hendry Saputra then teamed up with Li Yujia to thrash Hong Kong's Leung Chun Yiu/Mong Kwan Yi 21-4, 21-8.
They will meet rising Taiwanese stars Tsai Chia Hsin/Cheng Wen Hsing.
I believe this is another Match of the Round and it is gonna be difficult to predict who is going to win.
But once again, go Singapore!
Li Yujia then teamed up with Jiang Yanmei to take on Taiwan's Chou Chia-Chi/Ku Pei-Ting.
They took the first set 21-19 with much difficulties. However, they managed to pull themselves back up and finished the match off 21-13.
They will meet arch-rivals Wong Pei Thy/Chin Eei Hui of our neighbouring Malaysia.
Another Match of the Round, and i really hope Yanmei/Yujia will avenge their loss in the finals of the Commonwealth Games.
Singapore in 3 Match of the Rounds. And we hope the 3 of them will make it through!
We wish them all the best in overcoming their worthy opponents.
加油新加坡！
Macau Open Day 1
Today's the start of the 2006 Macau Open!
Top stars from Indonesia, Malaysia and China are taking part, so it must be very exciting!
And for your information, SCV Supersports (Channel 22) will be showing the finals live.
Qualifying and First Round of Men's and Women's Singles.In Men's Singles, both Ronald Susilo and Kendrick Lee are safely into the next round!
Though Kendrick had a fairly hard draw by meeting Roslin Hashim of Malaysia in the first round, he managed to defeat him convincingly with only 2 sets, 21-16, 21-17.
Ronald Susilo defeats Zhang Yi of China 21-12, 21-8.
Kendrick will meet Park Sung Hwan of Korea who is seeded 9/16.
Susilo will meet Chen Hong of China.
On the other hand, in the Women's Singles, Li Li should count her blessings that Xie Xingfang was injured and so will not meet her in the first round!
She took on Eva Lee from the US and won easily in 2 sets, 21-6, 21-11.
She will meet Korea's qualifier Kang Hae Won.
The Men's, Women's and Mixed Doubles will start tomorrow.
Cheers fanatics!
Finally, we have a tournament going to be held next week in Macau.
It starts on 19 July (Preliminaries) and ends on 23 July.
Here's the full schedule:
19 July (Preliminaries and Round of 64 of Men's Singles)
20 July (Round of 32, all matches)
21 July (Round of 16, Quarter finals)
22 July (Semi Finals)
23 July (Finals)
Draws are also out on
www.internationalbadminton.org.
You can go check them out.
Only our mixed doubles pair of Hendri Saputra/Li Yujia are seeded (5/8).
The rest have to work doubly hard to go far!
So will anyone complete Kendrick's feat again?
We will see.
Cheers,
Pearlyn.
Chinese Taipei Open Semi Finals
Oh well, that's all folks.
Kendrick Lee crashed out after losing to Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei 12-21, 10-21.
Overall, it's a good try for Kendrick as he managed to level the score at the early stages, however, Lee Chong Wei's shots proved too majestic for Kendrick, and claimed victory after about 25 minutes.
Being in the semi-finals is no easy feat, and so we hereby congratulate Kendrick for his outstanding run to the semi-finals as well as being the first person to qualify for Aviva's Direct Challenge.
Once again, we congratulate all the shuttlers who have paticipated in this tournament, and for doing so well. Hope to see them doing as well in the next tournament!
MATCH FIX-UP FOR FINALS:Men's Singles: Lin Dan (CHN) VS Lee Chong Wei (MAS)
Women's Singles: Zhang Ning (CHN) VS Xie Xingfang (CHN)
Men's Doubles: Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun (CHN) VS Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae (KOR)
Women's Doubles: Gao Ling/Huang Sui (CHN) VS Lee Hyo Jung/Lee Kyung Won (KOR)
Mixed Doubles: Nova Widianto/Liliyana Natsir (INA) VS Lee Jae Jin/Lee Hyo Jung (KOR)
Chinese Taipei Open Quarter-Finals
3 cheers and 3 cheers and 3 cheers for our shuttlers: Hip Hip Hooray!
Today had been an exciting day with 3 matches involving our shuttlers.
And the good news is:
Kendrick Lee enters the semi-finals of a 5* event for the first time!
After losing the first set 16-21 to 3/4 seeded Chen Hong, Kendrick bounces back to win the 2nd set 21-18. Anyone could have seen the fatique in Chen Hong's eyes, and with that advantage, Kendrick proves that he will be someone to watch by leading 17-7 at one point and taking the rubber game 21-15.
This is the first time in months since any Singaporean shuttler made it to the semi finals of a respected tournament, the last time being Li Li in the semi-finals of the 2005 Malaysia Open.
He meets Malaysia's 2nd seeded Lee Chong Wei in the semi-finals. We wish him the best in tomorrow's game, and hopefully he will put up yet another brave fight!
For
Li Yujia/Hendry Saputra in the Mixed Doubles event, no miracle happened, after all, their opponents are the reigning World Champions. They lost in 2 straight sets 21-16, 21-18, but however, it was a brave run for the duo to the quarter-finals.
Currently ranked only 39th in the world, due to a new world ranking system, the duo must do really well in upcoming tournaments to ensure their place in the top 15 again.
Brothers
Hendry/Hendra Wijaya first shocked everyone with their amazing run to the quarter-finals in Singapore. This time in Taiwan, their amazing run to the quarter-finals again have also ended bitterly, but this time to the hands of World No.2 Malaysian pairing of Chan Chong Ming/Koo Kian Keat.
The brothers lost in 2 straight sets 21-18, 21-11. It was a commendable effort through the quarter-finals though.
We thank the shuttlers for putting their best foot forward, and we thank them for doing so well in this tournament!
Lastly, the match between Kendrick Lee and Lee Chong Wei will be a crucial one, so do pray hard for our very own shuttler Kendrick tomorrow!
Cheers,
Pearlyn.
Chinese Taipei Open Day 3
I would like to congratulate our shuttlers for a job well done!
In Day 3, we have shuttlers in 4 events [MS, WS, MD, MXD], and in Men's Singles, Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles, they prevailed to enter the quarter-finals tomorrow.
In the Men's Singles,
Kendrick Lee managed to defeat the seeded Eric Pang in straight sets [21-14, 21-16] to advance to the quarter-finals. Great job there by Kendrick! However, a tough opponent awaits him tomorrow, Chen Hong of China.
In Men's Doubles, the brothers once again shocked us with their 3 set win over China's Sun Junjie/Xu Chen. The score is 21-19, 19-21, 21-13. This is the 2nd consecutive time
Hendry Saputra/Hendra Wijaya entered the quarter-finals of a 5 star event. They face 2nd seeds Chan Chong Ming/Koo Kian Keat of Malaysia tomorrow.
In the Mixed doubles,
Hendry Saputra/Li Yujia had quite a scare before winning the match. Their opponents, Sun Junjie/Tian Qing, took the first game 21-17. But our Singaporean duo managed a great fight back to take the remaining two sets 21-14, 21-10 to qualify for the quarter finals. They will play World Champions Nova Widianto/Liliyana Natsir tomorrow. So that means
Hendry will play in 2 quarter-finals.
For the Women's Singles, though
Li Li lost to World No.2 Xie Xingfang, she did a great job in forcing Xie to a rubber set. Taking the first set 21-9,
Li Li went on to the 2nd set, however, Xie proves to strong for her and took the 2nd game 21-13. In the rubber set, it was a much more thrilling experience. But eventually, Xie prevailed, taking the match 9-21, 21-13, 21-17. A much commendable effort by
Li Li. She should be proud of herself.
Overall, i would say this is one of the most awarding tournaments in ages. I believe this is the first time our shuttlers managed to get into the quarter-finals of 3 events of a 5* tournament. So once again, congratulations!
Cheers,
Pearlyn.
Chinese Taipei Open Day 2
Latest Results:Men's Doubles
Hendry Saputra/Hendra Wijaya triumphed over Hopp Kristo/Kindervater Ingo of the Germany with an impressive scoreline of 21-16, 21-10.
Women's Doubles
Jiang Yanmei/Li Yujia lost to Chien Yu-Chin/Cheng Wen Hsing but not before putting up a great fight, losing 17-21, 19-21.
Li Li defeated Nicole Grether to set up a match with World Champion Xie Xingfang. Will she create another upset like what she did in last year's Malaysian Open?
Mixed Doubles
Hendry Saputra/Li Yujia displayed their awesome skills by thrashing Taiwan's Hu Chung-Shya/Liu Shu Chih 21-8, 21-6. They will face a challenging task by meeting China's up and coming pair Sun Junjie/Tian Qing tomorrow.
Kendrick Lee also thrashed another Taiwan, Shih Kuei Chun, 21-6, 21-6. He will meet Eric Pang for a place in the quarter-finals.
Overall, i believe our players did well. Will be expecting more of them tomorrow!
Cheers,
Pearlyn
Oops, Sorry!
Sorry everyone! It's been exactly 4 months since i last updated.
Was busy this few months and was not able to update, i almost lost the password too!
Thank god i managed to get in or i will kill myself. Haha.
So for a fresh start, i have changed the layout, hope you all will like it =)
You can actually navigate around, but most of the pages aren't up yet, i will inform you duely when everything is fully up. Currently, only the Links and About Site page is up.
Okay, i'm sorry for not updating you with the Uber Cup action in May where our girls managed to get into the Top 8, and for not bringing you upclose to the AVIVA Singapore Open which concluded recently. Our shuttlers did not perform up to expectations, especially our mixed doubles Li Yujia/Hendri Saputra and Women's Doubles Li Yujia/Jiang Yanmei. However, Ronald Susilo mananged to thrill the homecrowds by getting into the quarter-finals where he lost to the eventual winner Peter Gade.
The scratch pair of Hendri Saputra/Hendra Wijaya was the shocker of the tournament, being unseeded and unfancied, they fought of the seeded pair of Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan from Indonesia and second seeds Choong Tan Fook/Lee Wan Wah of Malaysia.
They also gave a brave fight to Danish eventual runner-ups in the quarter-finals, exciting the 4000 fans who came.
We have thus seen new hope coming from the shuttlers, and this week, the Chinese Taipei Open starts and our shuttlers are taking part.
Today: Kendrick Lee
defeated Lee Chen Yen 25-23, 21-8
21st June: Li Yujia/Jiang Yanmei takes on local heroines Chien Yu-Chin/Cheng Wen-Hsing. Will it be sweet revenge for Jiang/Li or will Chien/Cheng overpower them? (WD)
Kendrick Lee Yen Hui will settle for Shih Kuei-Chui, he has a good draw, so i expect a quarter-final run for him. (MS)
Hendry Saputra Kurniawan/Hendra Wijaya vs Kristof Hopp/Ingo Kindervater, will our Men's Double pair be a shocker again? Will they get into the quarter-finals again? We will see. (MD)
Li Li will play Nicole Grether. Higher chances of Li Li winning. (WS)
Hendry Saputra/Li Yujia VS Hu Chung-Shyan/Liu Shu Chih - I predict a win for our duo. They are seeded in this tournament, so much will be expected of them (MXD)
Meanwhile, if you would like to see other draws or matches, you might want to go
here. It's in chinese though.
Cheers,
Pearlyn.
GOOD NEWS!
Hey everyone, if you wanna catch out shuttlers at the airport before they depart for Melboune, Australia, for the Commonwealth Games, do come on down to Changi Airport on 10 March at 11.40 PM. Flight SQ 237.
Be sure to be there if you call yourself a badminton fanatic!
For more info, visit :
http://www.teamsingapore.com.sg
CORRECTION: Singapore has already qualified for the Uber Cup finals. The tie between Korea would not affect it.
But of course, if you must know the results against Korea, it's a win for Korea with 3-1. No detailed scores yet. We will play Hong Kong to decide 3rd and 4th placing. Chinese Taipei has defeated Hong Kong.
