Archive | March, 2009

All England Quarter Finals

All I can say for the match between Peter Gade (Denmark) and Taufik Hidayat (Indonesia) is I am glad I did not bet my house! It looks like Taufik won his match relatively comfortably against Gade. Not a surprise of course but I had the feeling that Gade would be too steady for [...]

Early Exit From Croatian International 2009

A dissapointing day for me in Zagreb,Croatia. It is two tournaments in a row that I am not on form. It is a shame since My last two team matches I have been able to play some quality badminton. But not these last two weeks. I had a tough match against this [...]

All England 2009 Round of 16

Day 3 is over for the men’s singles at the All England. No real surprises happening but a few neat matches. I thought Sho Sasaki (Japan) defeated Tsueng Seng Lee (Malaysia) 21-11 21-12, not a surprise but an interesting result. Another one was Jan O Jorgensen losing to Joachim Persson 21-15 21-18. [...]

All England 2009 1st Round

As expected there were many exciting matches and even a few upsets that came as a nice suprise! First Marc Zwiebler (Germany) defeated Boonsak Ponsana (Thailand) 14-21 21-15 22-20. That is a great win for Zwiebler. Then there was Ville Lang (Finland) defeated Dicky Palyama (Holland) 14-21 21-10 21-18 . I [...]

Croatian International 2009

This morning I will be leaving for Zagreb,Croatia, to attend the Croatian International 2009. The tournament starts on Friday the 6th of March I have played there quite a few times and have always enjoyed the competition and the well organized event. I will be playing against Markus Heikkinen from Finland in [...]

All England 2009 Qualifying

Well as predicted the two matches I said to look out for were VERY close! However so were most of the matches:) Anand Pawar (India) beat Carl Baxter (England) 18-21 21-17 23-21 and Wei Feng Chong (Malaysia) beat Tommy Sugiarto (Indonesia) 21-19 18-21 21-19. Another awsome match was between Petr Koukal (Czech Republic) [...]

Song of the Week, DJ Tiesto Power Mix

Every week I will upload a song that I find to be very cool. This week it is DJ Tiesto. This Power Mix has such high energy that it gets me going for any tough training or tournament that I have coming up.
Hope you enjoy!