The Swiss Open Badminton Championships reached the quarterfinals yesterday, and the first few rounds of the tournament were much less interesting due to the withdrawal of more than half of the masters.
The first day of the tournament was the first round of qualifying and mixed doubles. It is worth mentioning that this is a rare qualification tournament set up by the BWF on the World Tour. In the first round of the mixed doubles match of the day, the No. 2 seed, Indonesia's Jordan/Meratti, was eliminated by another Indonesian pair 0-2 - it was a small cold.
By the second matchday, many combinations that had performed well in the All England Tournament had lost, such as the New England champions Maura na/Fikri who lost 1-2 to India's Ranki Reddy/Sheti in the first round of the men's doubles, and the Indian women's doubles rising star Jolly/Gobi Chand, who had reached the final four of the All England, was eliminated by a pair of Thailand's Tsong kapan/Lavinda at 0-2. On the same day, the Indonesian duo of Asan/Hendra appeared against team-mate Calnando/Martin, abstaining after losing the first set 12-21.
In yesterday's 1/8 final, the men's singles top seed, the All England champion Arcelong and the England combination of Ryan /Wendy have abstained, and Neville, Frankie Reddy/Shetty, Marcus/Smith and other famous players have been out. After the first two rounds of withdrawals and abstentions, the Swiss Open began to revert to a situation similar to the average Super 300 tournament, with the percentage of European players advancing higher than the previous two tournaments.
The quarter-finals of each event have been produced, and the quarter-finals will start tonight. Currently, India accounts for half of the men's singles in the men's singles quarterfinals, with Srikans, Verma, Plannoi and Panupari among them, while Antonsen, Quentin, Jonathan and Popov hold the other four seats. In the women's singles quarterfinals, India's Schindhu dominates in ranking and strength, and Thailand's Busuanglan and Canada's Li Wenshan are also well-known players. In men's doubles, the Indonesian men's doubles and the Malaysian men's doubles continued their good form since Germany to the all-Britain, occupying three seats in the quarterfinals and will play each other. Youngsters Karnando/Martin will play against German Open champions Wu Shifei/Izunudin, Wang Yaoxin/Zhang Yuyu will play Against Alfian/Adianto, Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi and Astrup/Rasmussen are all expected to advance to the semifinals. The women's doubles venues that are absent from China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia have almost lost their focus, and Thailand's Joan Kapan/Lavinda has a certain advantage. In mixed doubles, the European duo occupied five of the top eight, with the remaining three being won by Malaysia and Indonesia.