Peter Gade Man Handles Taufik Hidayat

Peter Gade easily defeated Taufik Hidayat in the second round of the 2007 Singapore Open. The first game was close with Gade winning 21-18, but the second was much quicker at 21-12. Gade will now play his fellow Dane, Kenneth Jonassen in the quarter-finals. I knew Gade would take this match, Taufik just can’t be bothered to really try unless it is a really big event like Worlds or Olympics, unless he is playing Indonesia Open. Wong Choong Han is also doing well after beating Japan’s Shoji Sato. Now he plays Chen Yu in the quarter-finals. Hopefully he won’t have to go through qualifying eventually, cause he has had a lot of decent results in the Super Series.

On the other side of the draw there were some surprises with Hafiz Hashim, Chen Jin and Sony Dwi Kuncoro all losing to Boonsak Ponsana, Kendrick Lee and Ronald Susilo respectively. Chen Jin losing is a really big surprise to me, he is usually quite clutch. At this stage I think I can predict a Lin Dan vs Peter Gade final. These two seem to be quite strong this week, but who knows, cause the Super Series seem to be full of surprises.

In the men’s doubles my favourites Gunawan and Wijaya just crushed their opponents Guo and Xie 21-14, 21-7 to book their quarter-finals spot. They will likely have to play China’s Cai and Fu in the semi-finals. It’s too bad they couldn’t be on the other side of the draw, I think these are the two strongest teams at this tournament. Anyway, more on the 2007 Singapore Open tomorrow. Oh ya, almost forgot, China is killing everyone in the women’s events, and also have three pairs remaining in the mixed doubles. How unpredictable!

Super Series Results Page

2007 Singapore Open Official Website