XD - Quarter final - Will the French dream pair keep writing legends?

An opening match between Europe and Asia. The Germans had definitely studied hard about their rivals. FENG’s high jump smashes did not intimidate the Germans as they imagined, LOHAU manged to send back beautifully the flying shuttle. 21/15 for the first Chinese win. The scores from both sides would not loosen up. LAMSFUSS became much more aggressive on his attacks and this helped his pair gain some good points. 21/16, the Germans brought this match to its last round. Final game , the Germans were holding a solid advance of 5 points, but the Chinese kept chasing up. HORAU’s front net skills got better and better. Final score : 15/21 21/16 21/18 for the Germans.

The Chinese added another victory to the head-to-head history against this Japanese pair. First game was pretty easy for the world number three 21/10, and their good performance lasted until the end of the match: 21/8. “We did not really expect we could win that easily, I think we were lucky our opponents did not play too fast and did not cause us much trouble today.” ZHENG/HUANG shared with us after the match.

Both world top 20 pairs, the Koreans SEO Seung Jae/CHAE Yu Jung[5] needed more time get into their game. The two Dutch players Robin TABELING/ Selena PIEK had been playing extremely well at this year’s French Open. They got faster and more skillful, not even possible to break through their solid defense guard. They were just unstoppable. 21/9, 13/21, 21/8. Number 5 seed for this year had to get off the train…