Thursday, September 24, 2009

Champion must qualify for Denmark Super Series

The surprise winner of Women’s Singles at China Masters, Wang Shixian, has to pass the qualifying rounds to participate in Denmark Super Series.

Chinese players are currently dominating the world scene of women’s single. Four of the seven highest ranked players accepted into the main draw represents China, and they can expect company in the main draw from Wang Shixian and presumably also Wang Xin who beat Tine Rasmussen in both China Masters and Japan Open.
Only player that might be able to challenge the two chinese shuttlers is japanese youngster Maya Sekiya. Maya sprung a big surprise in Japan Open when she defeated former Junior World Champion Jiang Yanjiao.

In mixeddoubles,two notable pairs has been assigned to the qualifying draw.
Japanese celebrity Reiko Shiota with partner Shintaro Ikeda has to qualify, and so does malaysian men’s double-ace Koo Kien Keat (3K) and partner Wong Pei Tty.
The two malaysian players are ranked second in the world in men’s respectively women’s doubles.

















Reiko Shiota must qualify in the mixed event

Find out more about Reiko Shiota at Wikipedia

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Livestreaming from Denmark Super Series

Now you can enjoy Denmark Super Series Livestream from your office or your couch.

For the first time ever you'll be able to follow the action from the qualifying rounds through the preliminary rounds up until the quarter finals.

Denmark Super Series is streaming the matches from one court on tuesday, wednesday and thursday.

Watch this blog for match schedule as we close in on the event.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Blogger team finalized

The international blogger team for Deanmark Super Series has been finalized.


The team consist of Luo Xi Lin, former chinese national team player now living in Denmark where he is coaching and working on a bachelor degree. Lin will be blogging mainly in chinese.





Salim Sameon will blog to you in malaysian. Salim has is a former national team player from malaysia, and he has been coaching in Europe for several years before moving to Denmark in the beginning of this season.
The last member of the team is Steen Schleicher Pedersen who is the former danish national coach. He is now working within the sportspsychology business and coaching part time. Steen will be blogging in english.