Red Sports brings you a picture story of the exhilarating international badminton action taking place at Singapore Indoor Stadium this week. Here is a picture story of the semi-finals day.
The Singapore Badminton Open reached its quarter-final stages which brought about thrills and spills.
The host's medal chase at the 2009 Singapore Badminton Open has run its course when their last survivors, Hendra Wijaya and Hendri Kurniawan Saputra, crashed out 20-22, 21-17, 21-18 to the 2008 Olympic Games men’s doubles champions and top seed, Hendra Setiawan and Markis Kido of Indonesia.
In a wildfire day where seeds dropped all over the stadium, defending champion Lee Chong Wei became the first top seed to be shown the exit at the 2009 Singapore Badminton Open. The man behind this feat is Nguyen Tien Minh, a small Vietnamese man who feels hugely indebted to Singapore.
Complete annihilation was prevented for the hosts when Hendri Kurniawan Saputra and Hendra Wijaya stormed into the quarter-final of the 2009 Singapore Badminton Open while all their compatriots bowed out in the second round.
Local heroine Fu Mingtian may have been knocked out in the second round of the 2009 Singapore Badminton Open by Judith Meulendijks of Netherlands, but the 18-year-old believes a new dawn has arrived for her.
World number nine and eighth seed Xie Xingfang progressed to the quarter-final of the Singapore Badminton Open after beating Japan’s highest ranked women’s player Ai Goto in straight sets 21-19, 21-14.
Fourth seed Chen Jin of China fended of England’s Rajiv Ouseph’s challenge 21-19, 21-16 to reach the quarter-final of the Singapore Badminton Open.