Petya Nedelcheva, Bulgaria, met Xie Xingfang, China (left) in one of the Womens 1/2-finals saturday, and the chinese won as expected, 21-6, 21-9. Homegirl Xu Huaiwen won the other semifinal against Pi Hongyan, France.

Koreans won the Mens Doubles semis: Lee Jae Jin/Hwang Ji Man beat Albertus Susanto Njoto/Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama, Hong Kong and Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae beat Sigit Budiarto/Fran Kurniawan, Indonesia. The rest of the matches had chinese winners: Mens Singles: Chen Yu beat Wu Yun Yong (also of China), Lin Dan beat Anup Shridhar, India. Womens Doubles: Du Jing/Yu Yang beat Lee Kyung Won/Lee Hyo Hung, Korea and Yan Wei/Zhang Jiewen beat Hwang Yu Mi/Kim Min Jung, Korea. Finally Mixed Doubles: Xu Chen/Zhao Tingting beat David Lindley/Suzanne Rayappan, England and Zheng Bo/Gao Ling beat Lee Yong Dae/Lee Hyo Jung, Korea.

The finals day – sunday – started with a bad message: Yu Chen had suffered an injury, so Lin Dan won the Mens Singles championship on walkover.

The other champions – Womens Singles: Xie Xingfang, China – Mens Doubles: Lee Jae Jin/Hwan Ji Man, Korea – Womens Doubles: Yan Wei/Zhang Jiewen, China and finally Mixed Doubles: Zheng Bo/Gao Ling, China.

Unfortunately we have no original images to present from saturday or sunday. The results of the tournament are available from Tournament Software and the official homepages should be available for some time to come.

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