World No 1 Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan, arguably the best player of the decade, may cross swords as early as the semi-finals when the two players renew their rivalry in the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England.
After a five-week break, the OSIM BWF World Superseries resumes with the third leg of the Series with the YONEX All England Open. The Championships is among five Premier events in the 12-leg OSIM BWF World Superseries and offers a total prize money of USD350,000.
The OSIM BWF World Superseries, which has seen a drastic increase of prize money, kicked off with the Malaysia Open which offered USD400,000 in prize money despite its Superseries status and the Korea Open, a Premier event, which offered a record-breaking USD1.2 million in total prize money. 
Chong Wei won the Malaysia Open when he defeated Indonesia’s Taufik Hidayat in the final while Lin Dan captured the Korea Open title when he beat Chong Wei in the final.
The Malaysian is seeded No 1 while Lin Dan is seeded No 3 and this could well mean that the two players, based on the draw, could end up in the same half of the draw.
Taufik is the No 2 seed in the men’s singles while Denmark’s Peter Gade is seeded No 4.
Rounding up the seeds for the men’s singles are China’s Chen Long (No 5) and Chen Jin (No 6), Vietnam’s Nguyen Tien Minh (No 7) and Thailand’s Boonsak Ponsana (No 8).
In the men’s doubles, Korea’s Jung Jae Sung-Lee Yong Dae, despite their No 3 ranking, will be out to win their second consecutive Premier title but will once again have to go up against a world class field comprising World No 1 Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen (No 1), World No 2 Yoo Yeon Seong-Ko Sung Hyun (No 2) of Korea, Malaysia’s Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong (No 5) and China’s world champions Cai Yun-Fu Haifeng (No 6).
In the women’s singles, China’s depth is never more evident with the top three seeds coming from them in the form of the three Wangs – Wang Shixian, Wang Yihan and Wang Xin respectively.
Another Chinese player Jiang Yanjiao is the No 6 seed while India’s Saina Nehwal will be looking to make up for a disappointing outing in the Korea Open where she failed to make the quarter-finals. The Indian is the No 5 seed.
In the mixed doubles, Denmark’s Thomas Laybourn makes a return (with Kamilla Rytter Juhl) after missing the Malaysia Open and Korea Open due to a knee injury sustained at the Super Series Finals early this year.
The Danes are the No 2 seeds with China’s Zhang Nan-Zhao Yunlei given the top billing.
In the women’s doubles, it is surprisingly an open field with pairs from seven countries occupying the top eight ranking.
Chinese Taipei’s Cheng Wen Hsing-Chien Yu Chin are the top seeds followed by Japan’s Satoko Suetsuna-Miyuki Maeda and China’s Yu Yang-Wang Xiaoli.
The YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships begins at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on 8 March.
courtesy of bwf
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