COPENHAGEN MASTERS 2010 – Danes and Ponsanas

The finals of the Copenhagen Masters will see Danish players in each category with two all-Denmark affairs while Salakjit Ponsana (photo) and brother Boonsak will be the only foreigners featured on Wednesday.

By Raphael Sachetat.  Photos: Yves Lacroix for Badmintonphoto (live)

There was no real surprise on day 2 of the Copenhagen Masters, where most favourites cruised to the finals after two sessions of play. Home sweethearts Peter Gade and Tine Baun will feature in the finals against the Ponsana siblings in the finals.

Gade earned his ticket by avenging his defeat from last year against Dicky Palyama, in straight games, depriving the Dutch of two back-to-back “Masters” titles – he had been on top of the podium in the Strasbourg Masters earlier this month. Tine Baun, on her end, had already booked her ticket the previous evening but was watching who of Pi Hongyan (pictured below) or Salajkit Ponsana she’d have to play.

It will be the latter who beat out-of-form Pi of France. The former Chinese did show some interesting things in the second game, where she had two game points, but Pi failed to convert and saw her opponent move to the next stage to meet Baun.

In the men’s doubles, Boe and Mogensen made light work of Mak and Tan of Malaysia – who were making their second appearance in the Copenhagen Masters. The good news for Denmark was to see Mads Conrad Pedersen and Jonas Rasmussen scoop the remaining ticket by beating the Indonesian scratch pairing of Sukmawan and Kido.

The mixed final will be an all local battle as well with Fischer-Nielsen/Pedersen against Delbo-Larsen/Rytter-Juhl.

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