The second session of the second day of the 2012 Yonex Australian Badminton Open saw the completion of the remaining round 32 matches in all disciplines.

The majority of matches went the way of the higher ranked players, except for three seeded casualties in singles, who were eighth seed, Hong Kong's Wong Wing Ki, and 13th seed, Kashyap Parupalli of India, in the men's section, and Taiwan's second seed, Cheng Shao Chieh. Also, it was disappointing that players touted as potential new names to watch like Malaysia's Liew Daren, and Singapore's Ashton Chen, failed to ignite on the night despite their obvious youth and fitness.

The Seeds & Key Match Ups

Hu Yun (HKG) (9) VS Chong Wei Feng (MAL)

The Hong Kong player very nearly joined the other seeds in the casualty ward and this Malaysian youngster was one who did make the most of talents on the day.

Hu Yun who has assumed the role of Hong Kong's elder statesmen from Chan Yan Kit, was able to join his compatriot in the third round but had to do it the same hard way by surviving a three set marathon that was tight to the end. 12-21, 21-11, 21-19.

Hu was betting on himself throughout the match and never succumbed to Chong's wanting to up the pace of the match. It goes to prove that experience counts! All three of Hong Kong's men's singles were stretched, but it was the highly ranked but less experienced Wong Ki Wing who was not so lucky in his match lasting 66 minutes.

Simon Santoso (INA) (3) VS Yong Zhao Ashton Chen (SIN)

Singapore's Ashton Chen was hoping to be third time lucky against Indonesian Simon Santoso, and the 9-3 lead he chalked up at the start seemed to indicate that he had learnt from their past encounters.

Simon Santoso gave a dazzling jump smash reminiscent of Sigit Budiarto, the man reknowned for an almost hovering version of that shot, to kill off the opening point, which seemed somewhat out of character for the quiet achieving Indonesian.

Trading fast shots with Chen proved to be the wrong tactic and down 3-9 he switched back to his usual fourth gear pace of shot selection, and then unbelievably took off all the way to close out the first set 21-9. The second set proceeded towards the same conclusion once Santoso became used to the other side of the court, 21-14.

Sho Sasaki (JPN) (2) vs Liew Daren (SIN)

Defending champion Sho Sasaki played the man that the BWF website, overnight, highlighted as one of the dangerous new guys on the block to be wary of. The Japanese dismissed such talk.

In theory, what should have been awesome match in fact stopped short for the much hyped Malaysian Liew Daren. After yesterday's duel between 226 ranked Lin (Chinese Taipai) and the top seed Chen Jin (China) that lasted five minutes short of an hour, one was expecting as good, if not better, a match from a world number six pitted against world number 26.

Sasaki played what can best be described as his routine game plan of predominantly patient flat clears, flat drop shots, drives, and one heavy smash when it counts, and Liew fell into all the traps laid out for him so much so by the middle of the second set, he drooped his head at least twice, thus signaling his resignation because he did not know the answers to the homework due today. 21-9, 21-9.

Inthanon Ratchanok (THA) (4) vs Yao Jie (NED)

Against former world number four, Yao Jie, now aged in her thirties, the triple world junior champion was happy to play point for point waiting until 20-all to make her decisive move and narrowly capture the first set 22-20.

The same game plan by the confident young Thai resumed in the second set, with Yao Jie reaching the interval first, 11-10.

The Thai teenager seemed almost to be toying with her opponent, by stroking with no sense of urgency until the rallies became drawn out affairs.

Sensing exactly when the Dutch woman was slightly off balance during the rallies, Ratchanok would smash a winner down the line on the forehand side. A few unforced errors from the Dutch on top of the Thai smash winners gave the second set and match to the world junior champion, 22-20, 21-15.

Yip Pui Yin (HKG) vs Cheng Shao Chieh (2) (TPE)

Yip Pui Yin, or "Yippy" as she's affectionally known, was a smash'oholic. Not just one but three or four per rally.

Yip was firing on all cylinders tonight and Cheng found it hard to keep up with because she was not finding the lines on her own shots. Pity because it would have been a greater match if the Taiwanese also hit her form tonight.

An electronic scoreboard malfunction that displayed the names of players of the next match while Yip reached 19 in the second set only delayed the inevitable. The Hong Kong player blew the Taiwanese off the court 21-14, 21-14, in just over half an hour.

The Aussies

Men’s doubles pairs Michael Fariman and Tran Hoang Pham, as well as Wesley Caulkett and Raymond Tam, have advanced through to the next round, after defeating fellow Aussie pairs.

Next Up?

The headline match up during day three is the women’s singles match, between 2010 world champion and former world number one, Wang Lin of China, up against teenage sensation, triple junior world champion, Inthanon Ratchanok, Matches commence at 1pm.

1.00pm: MD Hirokatsu Hashimoto/ Noriyasu Hirata (2) (JPN) vs Michael Fariman/ Tran Hoang Pham (AUS)
5.45pm: WS Inthanon Ratchanok (4) (THA) vs Wang Lin (CHN)
6.30pm MD Chieh Min Fang/ Sheng Mu Lee (3) (TPE) vs V Shem Goh/ Khim Wah Lim (MAS)
7.00pm: MS Taufik Hidayat (5) (INA) vs Boonsak Ponsana (12) (THA)
7.15pm: MS Sho Sasaki (2) (JPN) vs Yun Hu (9) (HKG)

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