The Yonex All England Open 2009

The 2009 Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships will be the 99th Championships, and will once again be sponsored by the world's No 1 badminton equipment manufacturer, Yonex. It will be the 26th consecutive year of Yonex sponsorship, making it one of the longest relationships in sports worldwide. Read more.

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韩国羽球赛盖德胜李宗伟夺魁 拉斯姆森女单两连冠

北京时间1月18日，2009年韩国羽毛球超级赛展开最后一日角逐。在男单决赛中，马来西亚名将李宗伟在苦战三局后，以1比2负于丹麦名将皮特-盖德，无缘冠军。女单方面，丹麦名将拉斯姆森以2比0击败法国选手皮红艳，获得超级系列赛两连冠。

男单决赛在3号种子皮特-盖德与头号种子李宗伟之间展开。首局，李宗伟在8平后打出一波3比1的小高潮，以11比8领先进入中局的休息阶段。休息过后，双方争夺得较为激烈，一度战至16平。平局之后，李宗伟突然发威，在连得2分后，以18比16占据场上的主动权利。皮特-盖德则不急不躁，他及时调整状态，并在上演一出5比0的好戏后，以21比16先胜一局。易地再战，李宗伟信心不减，以11比3领先进入中局的休息阶段。在随后的比赛中，李宗伟牢牢地控制住场上的节奏，最终干净利落地以21比10扳回一局。在决胜局中，皮特-盖德状态有所回升，以11比6领先进入中局的休息阶段。此后，李宗伟曾顽强地将比分追近至15比16，皮特-盖德在关键时刻稳住阵脚，在打出一波5比2的小高潮后，以21比17再胜一局，从而以2比1力克李宗伟，摘得桂冠.

女单方面，2号种子拉斯姆森在决赛中对垒4号种子皮红艳。首局，拉斯姆森在开局打得较为顺手，以3比1领先。随着比赛的深入，皮红艳逐渐适应了场上的节奏，其前三拍的质量也随之上升，加上拉斯姆森则失误连连，皮红艳抓住机会，连得5分，将比分反超至6比5，并以11比9领先进入中局的休息阶段。休息过后，拉斯姆森在加强进攻力度的同时，减少失误，掀起一波6比0的得分高潮，以15比11确立领先地位。局末阶段，皮红艳曾在以16比20落后之后连救3个赛点，一度将比分追近至19比20。紧要关头，拉斯姆森提高警惕，在把握住第四个局点后，以21比19取胜首局。在第二局中，拉斯姆森在以4比5落后之时打出一波7比2的得分高潮，以11比7领先进入中局的休息阶段。休息过后，背水一战的皮红艳曾一度将比分追至19平。关键时刻，拉斯姆森表现得沉着冷静，最终在连得2分后，以21比19再胜一局。2比0，拉斯姆森完胜皮红艳，问鼎桂冠。

混双方面，北京奥运会冠军、韩国组合李龙大/李孝贞在决赛中配合默契，以2比0战胜泰国组合宋波尔/库恩查拉，站上最高领奖台。两局的比分是21比8和21比7。在女双决赛中，头号种子中华台北组合程文欣/简毓瑾以21比19和21比8直落两局战胜2号种子韩国组合李敬元/李孝贞，获得冠军。男双方面，4号种子丹麦组合鲍伊/莫根森表现出色，以2比0(21比12和24比22)击败2号种子韩国组合郑在成/李龙大，夺得冠军。

International-metric wt.-grain - speed
1 ------------- 48 ---- 75 - slow, for use in highland
2 ------------- 49 ---- 76 - medium slow, for use in hotter area
3 ------------- 50 ---- 77 - medium, most sea level area
4 ------------- 51 ---- 78 - medium fast, cold area
5 ------------- 52 ---- 79 - fast, cold area, below sea level

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Indians upset world champs

16 January 2009

By Raphael Sachetat. Pix by BadmintonPhoto

In a day of upsets, India’s Jwala Gutta and V. Diju caused the biggest shock when they edged Indonesia’s best mixed doubles pair Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir, showing that India’s renaissance isn’t relying on Saina Nehwal’s shoulders only.

In another shocker, reigning Olympic and world champions Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan were sent packing as well.

Apparently, the fate of a whole nation is not solely relying on the solid – yet young- shoulders of Saina Nehwal. It can also count on Jwala Gutta’s amazing eyes and V. Diju’s humble character. But most of all, on their talent.

The duo, paired together three years ago, enjoyed their greatest win ever, on Court 1 of the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, when facing no other than the double world champions and Olympic silver medalists.

Even if the first game clearly went to the top seeds from Indonesia, their Indian opponents found a way to get back into the game and slowly caught the right sprit and style of play to put the favourites under pressure.

“After the first game, we realised that they were playing a fast game, just as a lot of Asian pairs do. This is not our style of play and we had to break their rhythm and rely on soft touch and net play. This is what we, Indians, are good at,” analysed Jwala Gutta, after her match.

This way of seeing things not only worked in theory, but on court as well and the Indonesians were soon frustrated with a pace they are not used to playing, finding themselves in a position where Nova could hardly strike his usual fast drives while Lilyana found Jwala stronger at the net than her.

As frustration led to mistakes, the second game was won by the Indians. The third turned out to be a nightmare for Widianto and Natsir, who watched the score board move up one point after the other for their opponents without being able to score. Diju and Jwala were on for their career best win 10/21 – 21/16 – 21/9.

“We’ve had some good results in the past, especially last year, where we won the Bitburger Open and had some good wins against good pairs, but never such a top class pair. This is definitely a boost for us and it will bring us some confidence for the events to come, the All England and the Swiss Open,” said Diju, who doesn’t train on a daily basis with his partner as both are based in a different place in India (Calicut for him and Hyderabad for her).

“We practice together during events, and also, we usually have training camps before tournaments, like this time when we had a one-week camp before the Super Series with our coach P. Gopichand.”

The pair will now take on another Indonesian pair, Wijaya Rendra/Meiliana Jauhari, representing their club of Djarum, while the favourites are now Lee Yong Dae and Lee Hyo Jung, who had the welcome of movie stars from the spectators for their quick win over Delbo Larsen and Mie Schjoett- Kristensen.

The title holders will now play Fran Kurniawan/Shendy Puspa Irawati. The other two quarters will feature Joachim Fischer-Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen Vs Songphon Anugritayawon/Kunchala Voravihitchaikul of Thailand and Robert Blair/Imoggen Bankier Vs Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama/Chau Hoi Wah.

The fate of the top seeds in the mixed was not the only bad news for Indonesia as the Olympic champions in the men’s doubles were to be sent packing as well.

Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan, still not at their best, went down to an inspired team of Fang Chieh Min/Lee Sheng Mu of Chinese Taipei. The first two games were uneven, with one game a piece, but the decider was a great one, with a clear contrast in styles.

The match point was a good sum up of what had been going on all through out the match when the Indonesians kept hitting down the shuttles, retrieved by Fang and Lee, before Kido nailed a huge smash into the net in frustration, leading to a 21/10 – 11/21 – 21/18 win for the Chinese Taipei boys.

The men’s doubles was very exciting with other very tight matches. Lee Wan Wah/Choong Tan Fook, the now independent Malaysians, scooped an important win over last week’s finalists Hendra Gunawan and Alven Yulianto.

The third game especially was thrilling, with Lee and Choong way ahead – 18/11 before Gunawan and Yulianto got back into the match, reminding their opponents of their old demons – leading and then collapsing towards the end.

But this time, when the Indonesians leveled up at 19/19, the Malaysians played a solid game and didn’t let go with an important victory and sealed their win which sent them into the quarter finals, where they are to meet Fang and Lee.

Malaysia’s former stars Chew Chun Eng/Chan Chong Ming didn’t have the same luck as they went down to youngsters Han Sang Hoon and Shin Baek Choel from Korea, in the last match of the day. It wasn’t the least in terms of suspense and the good crowd who had come to watch Lee Yong Dae stayed few more minutes to enjoy the win of this new pair in three games as well this time, 22/20 in the last game. Other seeds, however, made it through to the next round.

Of all the seeds involved in the men’s singles, only Joachim Persson failed to make it to the quarter finals. The clash awaited between him and his compatriot Peter Gade will probably have to wait until the Danish National Championships as the left hander was shown the way out by Korea’s Shon Wan Ho.

The 5th seed Dane was clearly not at his best while his opponent was all fired up by his home supporters and won thanks to a very fast game. In straight games, it was all over with an unquestionable success 21/14 – 21/13 for Shon, who will meet next a player he has probably seen on TV much more than in real life : Peter Gade himself, who hardly broke sweat to beat Ng Wei, 21/10 – 21/10.

The men’s single event saw only one match which went three games when Poland’s Przemyslaw Wacha took on India’s Arvind Bhat. The Pole finally ended up as a winner after an incredible finish.

Ahead 19/13, Wacha lost 6 straight points but saved one match point at 20/21 before closing it up 23/21. A relief which saw him throw his racket in joy… and got him a yellow card – he probably enters the circle of the very few players who got such a warning for celebrating – even if this gesture could have been seen as a sign of despair.

Lee Chong Wei will meet Park Sung Hwan in the quarters, while the bottom quarter will feature an all Indonesian affair between Simon Santoso and Andre Tedjono.

Adrianti Firdasari avenged the fate of her mixed double compatriots when she beat Saina Nehwal to get back at India in the closest match of the women’s singles. The Indonesian beat Nehwal 21/18 – 21/18 – 21/12 and will meet Tine Rasmussen in the quarters.

Wang Chen and Zhou Mi as expected, came through their second rounds even if Wang dropped a game under way to Malaysia’s Julia Wong. They will meet Petya Nedelcheva and Hwang Hye Youn respectively, while Pi Hongyan takes on the younger shuttler left in the draw, Japan’s Mayu Sekiya.

No surprise whatsoever in the women’s doubles, where some of the pairs didn’t even have to play to enter the quarter finals – Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen, Ha Jung Eun/Kim Jung Min and Eom Hye Won/Jung Kyung Eun benefited walkovers from their opponents, which made the schedule of the day finish right on time for the usual draw to start, with rackets to be won for the spectators – a tradition in the Yonex Korea Open.

韓國羽球賽 - 14日部份成績

★男單首圈賽

1.李宗偉（馬） 勝 洪智勳（韓） 21比11、17比21、21比15

塔農薩（泰） 勝 貝偉中（馬） 21比14、21比11

6.朴成奐（韓） 勝 李哲皓（韓） 21比16、21比19

佐佐木翔（日） 勝 陳俊翔（馬） 21比15、21比12

佐伯紘一（日） 勝 賽魯阿瑪阿約（馬） 22比24、22比20、21比14

5.佩爾森（丹） 勝 哈菲茲（馬） 21比13、21比12

3.彼得蓋特（丹） 勝 朴萬和（韓） 21比18、21比13

張維峰（馬） 勝 金沙然（韓） 21比15、21比12

8.西蒙桑托索（印尼） 勝 關博文（馬） 21比12、21比16

阿里夫（馬） 勝 阿南帕威爾（印度） 21比14、21比15

★女單首圈賽

黃佩嫻（馬） 勝 艾蒂蒂（印度） 21比9、21比15

皮雅（印尼） 勝 謝麗雅（馬） 21比9、21比16

★男雙首圈賽

5.李萬華與鐘騰福（馬） 勝 高成炫與權毅國（韓）21比17、21比19

3.拉斯巴斯基與拉斯姆申（丹） 勝 曹建雨與柳延星（韓）21比10、21比14

6.鄒俊英與陳重名（馬） 勝 金基正與金祈應（韓）23比21、21比 8

★女雙次圈賽

4.河貞恩與金旼貞（韓） 勝 侯秋慧與林碧霞（馬）后者棄權

10年來首次 世界第1中國擦肩

（中國‧北京13日綜合電）中國羽球隊缺席兩站超級賽，世界排名十年首次無緣第一。

2009年第一個羽球國際賽事馬來西亞超級賽落幕，中國隊缺席，5個單項的冠軍分別被印尼、韓國、丹麥和馬來西亞分享。

因為連續缺席兩站超級賽，中國隊10年里將第一次無緣各個項目的頭把交椅。

自去年12月，中國羽球隊開始冬訓，為維持系統訓練、保証冬訓效果，中國隊不僅放棄去年底的超級賽總決賽，還同時放棄馬來西亞和韓國兩站超級賽。

盡管全隊缺席，但11月退出國家隊的楊維與張潔雯和高崚與魏軼力這兩對女雙老將，依然出現在馬來西亞賽場。

最新一期世界排名，中國隊僅杜婧與于洋這對女雙暫列第一，由于中國隊將缺席韓國超級賽，杜婧與于洋也將把第一位置讓出，中國隊十年第一次無緣各項目頭把交椅。

韓國超級賽于今日至18日進行，楊維與張潔雯、高崚與魏軼力繼續征戰，楊維與張潔雯可能在半決賽，與韓國李敬元與李孝珍再次狹路相逢。