2008 Korea Open Super Series
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The 2008 Korea Open Super Series is the second tournament of the
2008 BWF Super Series The 2008 BWF Super Series was the second season of the BWF Super Series. The season spanned between the continental of Asia and Europe and was starting with 2008 Malaysia Super Series, Malaysia Open from January 15 and ended with Hong Kong Open on ...
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badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
. It was held in
Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
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South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
from January 22 to January 27, 2008. The men's singles final marred by the incident between Lin Dan and Korea coach Li Mao.


Men's singles


Seeds

# Lin Dan # Lee Chong Wei # Bao Chunlai # Chen Hong #
Peter Gade Peter Høeg Gade (born 14 December 1976 in Aalborg, Denmark)BWF World Ranking
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Sony Dwi Kuncoro Sony Dwi Kuncoro (born 7 July 1984) is an Indonesian former badminton player. He was the 2004 Olympic bronze medalist, two-time World Championships medalist (silver–2007, bronze–2009) and three-time Asian Champion (2002, 2003, 2005). He re ...
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Taufik Hidayat Taufik Hidayat (born 10 August 1981) is an Indonesian retired badminton player who is the current Deputy Minister for Youth and Sport of Indonesia. He is a former BWF World Championships, World champion, Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olymp ...
# Kenneth Jonassen


Results


Women's singles


Seeds

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Xie Xingfang Xie Xingfang (born September 8, 1981) is a retired Chinese badminton player from Guangzhou, Guangdong. She is a former two-time world champion for women's singles, and former women's singles World No. 1. Her first big title was in girls' dou ...
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Zhang Ning Zhang Ning (; born 19 May 1975) is a former Chinese badminton player. She won the Olympic gold medal twice for women's singles in both 2004 and 2008. She has played badminton on the world scene since the mid-1990s and has been particularly succes ...
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Lu Lan Lu Lan (; born 2 May 1987) is a badminton player from China. Career In 2004, she won the Polish Open. In 2006, she won the Korea Open and finished the year in the 5th position in the BWF World Ranking. In 2007, she won the Denmark Super Se ...
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Pi Hongyan Pi Hongyan ( zh, s=皮红艳, t=皮紅艷, p=Pí Hóngyàn; born 25 January 1979) is a former Chinese badminton player, who later represented France. Career Pi Hongyan is one of a number of talented Chinese-born badminton players who have emig ...
# Wang Chen # Xu Huaiwen # Wong Mew Choo #
Yip Pui Yin Yip Pui Yin (; born 6 August 1987) is a badminton player from Hong Kong. Career Yip played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the third round after beating Laura Molina of Spain an ...


Results


Men's doubles


Seeds

# Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan #
Cai Yun Cai Yun (born 19 January 1980) is a former professional badminton player representing China. He is the 2012 London Olympic gold medallist and a four-time World Champion in men's doubles. He is regarded as one of the greatest men's doubles play ...
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Fu Haifeng Fu Haifeng (born 23 August 1983) is a Chinese badminton player. Combining Fu Haifeng's impressive power with his regular partner Cai Yun's impressive speed, Cai and Fu have been one of the world's leading men's doubles teams since 2004. They ...
# Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae #
Jens Eriksen Jens Dyrløv Eriksen (born 30 December 1969) is a badminton player from Denmark. He competed in four consecutive Olympic Games from 1996 to 2008, and won a mixed doubles bronze medal in 2004 partnered with Mette Schjoldager. At the World Cham ...
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Martin Lundgaard Hansen Martin Lundgaard Hansen (born 11 October 1972) is a Danish badminton player. He started his career in badminton as a singles player, and competed in the 1993 IBF World Championships. But as the years went by, he made a choice to play doubles. T ...
# Lee Jae-jin / Hwang Ji-man # Luluk Hadiyanto / Alvent Yulianto #
Guo Zhendong Guo Zhendong (; born 4 August 1984) is a badminton player from China. , he (along with his partner Xu Chen) was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Career A men's ...
/ Xie Zhongbo # Tadashi Ohtsuka / Keita Masuda


Results


Women's doubles


Seeds

# Zhang Yawen / Wei Yili # Yang Wei / Zhang Jiewen # Lee Kyung-won / Lee Hyo-jung # Du Jing / Yu Yang # Chien Yu-chin / Cheng Wen-hsing # Kumiko Ogura / Reiko Shiota # Gail Emms / Donna Kellogg # Lilyana Natsir /
Vita Marissa Vita Marissa (born 4 January 1981) is an Indonesian retired badminton player. Career Marissa competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Nova Widianto. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Robert ...


Results


Mixed doubles


Seeds

# Zheng Bo /
Gao Ling Gao Ling (; born 14 March 1979) is a Chinese former badminton player. Career Noted for her consistency, anticipation, forecourt prowess, and sporting smile, Gao is one of the most successful doubles players in the history of women's badminton ...
# Nova Widianto / Lilyana Natsir # Xie Zhongbo / Zhang Yawen # Flandy Limpele /
Vita Marissa Vita Marissa (born 4 January 1981) is an Indonesian retired badminton player. Career Marissa competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Nova Widianto. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Robert ...
# Nathan Robertson / Gail Emms #
He Hanbin He Hanbin (; born 10 January 1986) is a retired badminton player from China. Career A doubles specialist, He won men's doubles at the Austrian International tourney with Guo Zhendong in 2007. Most of his accomplishments, however, have come ...
/ Yu Yang # Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl # Sudket Prapakamol / Saralee Thungthongkam


Results


References


External links


Tournamentsoftware.com: 2008 Korea Open Super Series
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