2007 BWF World Championships
The Individual Badminton World Championship 2007 in the period from 13 to 19 August, 2007 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taken place. Venue was the 16,000 -seat Stadium Putra in the National Sports Complex, the Malaysian National Stadium Complex in Bukit Jalil (about 20 km south of Kuala Lumpur ).
Chronology
For initial excitement leading the badminton players of Thailand worried about co-favorite Boonsak Ponsana: Since at the same time in their country held the Universiade in contrast to WM associated with prize money, they said short term a start in the World Cup from. For Ponsana probably the right decision: He won the title in the men's singles.
On the 3rd day of the championships goodbye with Taufik Hidayat one of the top favorites from the individual tournament. He was defeated by unseeded Indian Anup Sridhar 14:21, 26:24 and 20:22. Yet while it caught the set Malays Tan Bin Shen and Ong Soon Hock in the men's doubles. They lost Tadashi Ohtsuka and Keita Matsuda of Japan in round 1 The German starter field was decimated. In the quarterfinals, was only a single German with Xu Huaiwen. There she was defeated Lu Lan of China in three sets. In the doubles resigned from the last remaining German Nicole Grether and Juliane Schenk in the second round.
The home advantage Choong Tan Fook took only and Lee Wan Wah of the men's doubles. They stood in the semi-final and were the only medal winner for the host country Malaysia. The European Flag held in the last quarter-final match only Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg high. But even for them the semi-finals was out of reach, so the medals in all five disciplines completely went to Asia.