COPENHAGEN MASTERS 2011 – Kick off today

The Annual Badminton Festival in Denmark is about to kick off in Copenhagen today, with the usual line up of stars enjoy a post Christmas competition in the Danish capital. Denmark’s best players will compete against some of the rest of the world’s finest shuttlers. The day will star off at 7 PM local time with Peter Gade facing Eric Pang of the Netherlands. The Dane surely hopes to clinch the title again for a late 35th birthday present; The competition is being held for three days with group matches for men’s singles and semi finals onwards for the four other categories. The format of the Masters has changed with all  disciplines but women’s doubles played this year while the previous editions only had 3 categories played in round robin matches.

Here are the draws for the competition:

Men’s singles
Group A :
Peter Gade (DEN)
Eric Pang (NED)
Rajiv Ouseph (ENG)

Group 2:
Jan O Jorgensen (DEN)
Viktor Axelsen (DEN)
Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk(THA)

Women’s singles  semi-finals
Tine Baun (DEN)  vs Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA)
Yao Jie  (NED) vs Ratchanok Intanon (THA)

Mixed doubles semi-finals
Nova Widianto/Pia Bernadet (INA) vs Joachim Fischer-Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen (DEN)
Thomas Laybourn/ Kamilla Rytter-Juhl (DEN) vs Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thounthungkam (THA)

Men’s doubles semi-finals:
Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen (DEN) vs Markis Kido / Nova Widianto (INA)
Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif / Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari (MAS) vs Jonas Rasmussen / Mads Conrad-Pedersen (DEN)

The official website HERE

The live results HERE