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Ong out for second 2001 Grand Prix win in Holland
October 06, 2001 - Source : IBF
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 Veteran Ong Ewe Hock will be looking for a second World Grand Prix win in 2001 when he starts his Rutac Hollandcampaign next week (9-14 October) in Eindhoven.
The 29-year-old (pictured) is the top seed at the 2* event, with prize money of US$50,000, and will be hoping to show the kind of form which bagged him his home title at the Proton-Eon Malaysiain July this year.
But Singapore’s Indra Wijaya as the tournament’s second seed will have his eye firmly on the Dutch crown – as favourite in the Chinese Bank Hong Kong Wijaya looked sure of a first ever Grand Prix win but was forced to withdraw after suffering a thigh strain the previous week in China.
Having now rested, the Indonesian-born Wijaya – brother of Olympic champion Candra – will be hopeful of a positive start in hisng match against Denmark’s Kasper Oedum. Ong takes on Dutchman Rune Massing in his first match of the tournament.
Malaysian Lee Tsuen Seng will also be gunning for his first ever Grand Prix title after a couple of close calls earlier this year – he was runner-up in the Swiss and Indonesia. As the third seed in Eindhoven, Lee also enjoys a first-round bye and squares up to German Roman Spitko in hisng bout - Denmark’s Anders Boesen is the fourth seed and takes on the host’s Dicky Palyama.
Mia Audina Tjiptawan flies the flag for her adoptive nation in the women’s singles event. The former Indonesian Olympic silver medallist is the number one seed in her home tournament and showed impressive form earlier this year at the World Championships where she reached the quarter-finals amidst an onslaught of Chinese faces.
In fact, her first opponent may be another Chinese face – Xu Huaiwen is pitted against Denmark’s Christina Sorensen in the first round and the winner of that match will be up against Audina (pictured) for a place in the quarter-finals.
At the opposite end of the draw, Mette Sorensen is the second favourite and will most likelyher campaign against Malaysia’s Ng Mee Fen, who plays a qualifier in the first round. Julia Mann – the first ever English woman to break into the top ten of the world ranking – is the third seed in the Netherlands, playing either Pi Hongyan or a qualifier, and the fourth seed Marina Andrievskaya plays another qualifier or host hopeful Karina de Wit.
Flandi Limpele and Eng Hian make a welcome return to international competition next week, representing England rather than their native Indonesia. Winners of last year’s Danish Limpele and Hian announced their retirement from the Indonesian badminton centre in June this year following increased competition at the and what they described as a series of disappointing results.
But they’re back in action and are the tournament’s third seeded pair, meeting Alexandr Russkikh and Vitalij Durkin of Russia in the first round.
Top seeds in the men’s doubles are Denmark’s Martin Lundgaard Hansen and Lars Paaske, drawn against Jochen Cassel and Ingo Kindervater of Germany in the first round – Michal Logosz and Robert Mateusiak are seeded second, but face a tough first hurdle in the form of Danes Mathias Boe and Peter Steffensen. England’s Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark complete the top four seeded pairs.
Majken Vange and Pernille Harder are the favourites in a women’s doubles draw bereft of many big names, with Scotland’s Sandra Watt and Yuan Wemyss as second seeds in the bottom half of the draw. Danes Vange and Harder play unknown Belgians Evy Descamps and Elke Biesbrouck, while Watt and Wemyss face Germany’s Stefanie Mueller and Michaela Peiffer for a place in the quarter-finals.
Germany occupy the remaining seeded positions – Corina Herrle and Caren Hueckstaedt are third, and Katrin Piotrowski and Juliane Schenk in fourth.
With the exception of Mia Audina in the women’s singles, the host’s best chance of a title comes in the mixed event as Chris Bruil and Lotte Jonathans are the second seeds behind England’s new stars Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms, who had a dream run in the Malaysia and Indonesia in July where they reached the semi-finals of both events in their first international outings together.
Top seeded Robertson and Emms play Denmark’s Lars Paaske and Pernille Harder, while Bruil and Jonathans take on either Kurt Nijs and Liesbeth Aerts of Belgium, or Franklin Wahab and Sonja Martenstein of Germany.
DRAWS:
Men's Singles
Men's Singles Qualifying
Women's Singles
Women's Singles Qualifying
Men's Doubles
Men's Doubles Qualifying
Women's Doubles
Women's Doubles Qualifying
Mixed Doubles
SEEDS:
Men's Singles
1 ONG Ewe Hock MAS
2 Indra WIJAYA ~ SIN
3 LEE Tsuen Seng MAS
4 Anders BOESEN DEN
5 AYOB Sairul Amar MAS
6 LIN Dan CHN
7 CHEN Yu CHN
8 Vladislav DRUZCHENKO UKR
Women's Singles
1 Mia AUDINA TJIPTAWAN ~ NED
2 Mette SORENSEN DEN
3 Julia MANN ENG
4 Marina ANDRIEVSKAYA SWE
Men's Doubles
1 Martin LUNDGAARD HANSEN (4108) & Lars PAASKE (7575) DEN
2 Michal LOGOSZ (4170) & Robert MATEUSIAK (4253) POL
3 Flandi LIMPELE ~ (5612) & Eng HIAN ~ (8011) ENG
4 Nathan ROBERTSON (7572) & Anthony CLARK (9819) ENG
5 Jesper LARSEN (5791) & Jesper CHRISTENSEN (11934) DEN
6 James ANDERSON (4704) & Graham HURRELL (4722) ENG
7 Vincent LAIGLE (4031) & Svetoslav STOJANOV ~ (4922) FRA
8 Kristof HOPP (9256) & Thomas TESCHE (9258) GER
Women's Doubles
1 Majken VANGE (5786) & Pernille HARDER (6347) DEN
2 Sandra WATT (3436) & Yuan WEMYSS ~ (9696) SCO
3 Corina HERRLE (50300) & Caren HUECKSTAEDT (51205) GER
4 Katrin PIOTROWSKI (11813) & Juliane SCHENK (13475) GER
Mixed Doubles
1 14297 Nathan ROBERTSON (7572) & Gail EMMS (7734) ENG
2 51370 Chris BRUIL (729) & Lotte JONATHANS (9288) NED
3 52217 Kristof HOPP (9256) & Katrin PIOTROWSKI (11813) GER
4 8261 Andrej POHAR (1860) & Maja POHAR (4308) SLO |
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