It’s payback time when the OSIM BWF World Superseries gets underway with its second Premier event – the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England.
Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei, the World No 1, will be out to turn the tables on three-time World champion Lin Dan of China.In the men’s doubles, Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen from Denmark will also be out to exact revenge for their loss in the Korea Open final after they were drawn with Korea’s Jung Jae Sung-Lee Yong Dae in the same half of the draw. 
China’s Wang Shixian will also be out to outwit teammate Wang Yihan for the third time in four outings this year in the women’s singles.
Shxian claimed the first two titles in 2011 – the Super Series Finals in Taipei and the OSIM BWF World Superseries season opening Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur, at the expense of Yihan but the latter stopped Shixian in the final of the Korea Open.
But gunning for Yihan will be Korea’s Sung Ji Hyun who fell to the Chinese in the semi-finals of the Korea Open and was reduced to tears after a disputed line call gave Yihan victory.
The OSIM BWF World Superseries enters its third tournament of its 12-leg series and will culminate with the season ending World Superseries Finals in December where the top eight players and pairs based on the Superseries Standings will qualify for the Finals.
But Chong Wei’s path is a tricky one with Indonesia’s Sony Dwi Kuncoro, Thailand’s Boonsak Ponsana, Denmark’s Peter Gade and China’s Chen Long all drawn in the same half of the draw.
Chong Wei opens his campaign against Japan’s Sho Sasaki.
Lin Dan, on the other hand, will have to contend with No 2 seed Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia in an expected showdown in the semi-final but the Indonesia will have to overcome China’s reigning world champion Chen Jin in the quarter-final first.
courtesy of bwf
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