Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight! The vlogs are back by popular demand
and before we get started thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this video,
more on them later. So we're currently in Germany as we play for a team in the Bundesliga called BC
Wipperfeld and we spent the last two days playing team matches here. And on friday we
got an email saying we've been promoted into the main draw of the German Open so we thought
it'd be really fun to show you what it's like at one of the major events on the badminton world tour.
So we're about to jump in the car and head to Mulheim let's go!
So we've just arrived at the hotel, quickly unpacked and now we're off to train with the rest of the English team in the main hall
So we just finished practice, now we're going back to the hotel to get showered and get some food - see you in a bit!
Greg replying to some YouTube comments... Alright so we just got back from having dinner, we had some
chicken, rice and vegetables from a nice Chinese restaurant. It's always quite a good meal to go for
because it's got a good amount of protein, carbs and obviously veg in there as well - recovering from
the days training and also fueling up for tomorrow. So speaking of tomorrow - yes we are now eagerly
awaiting the managers meeting which is at seven o'clock. That's going to determine who we actually
play in this tournament! Yeah and they're playing the top half of the draw tomorrow and the bottom
half of the draw on Wednesday so we might actually end up having another training day tomorrow but we
might end up playing the tournament so we'll keep you updated on who we have!
Two hours later...
So it's currently 9 45 p.m and we've just found out that we're playing Bhatnagar and Crasto from India.
So we know that we're playing tomorrow but we don't actually know exactly what time we'll be playing
so for now we're just going to get ready for bed, wait for those timings to be out and we'll see you all tomorrow!
Alright morning everybody it's now 10 a.m in the morning we've just finished a very
nice breakfast, chatting with Mark Lamsfuss and Kristin Kuuba who are both from our German team
and now we're just on a little walk around the city, loosen up the legs
and yeah head back after this walk, do some match analysis and we'll take you through that!
Alrght so it's currently just gone 11 a.m and we're playing at around between three and four
o'clock and what we do before we're going to get the bus to the hall is we're going to watch our
opponents play. Now luckily we actually played them around six months ago at the Scottish Open
so we have some very relevant footage to watch. Unfortunately we lost that 18 in the third
so we're hoping for some revenge today but yeah what we're going to look out for is
firstly what we didn't do so well and what their strengths were, but probably most
importantly is what we actually did really well and what we can look to implement more of today.
So yeah, anything else to add? Serve and return is so important in doubles but we're looking at
kind of where we were serving to where they were returning to and also where they were serving to
and maybe where the gaps were in the court.
Let's goooo!
New jackets from Victor, just picked them up. Yeah, very nice, very nice.
Here he is, the man of the hour
The man who took down Zheng Siwei, big Jones Jansen!
Good luck for you
Thanks Jones! This is the little warm-up hall with two courts,
pretty busy, a lot of players getting ready for their matches.
About to start getting ready for our match, let's go!
So we've just got back from our match, really happy to win 21-9 in the third set so
we're through to the second round. We did a bit of media interviews and stretching down after the
match so we're gonna go out for food because we're really hungry but once we get back we'll sit down
and go through a little bit of our analysis on the match for you but first here's a few clips
And now you've seen some clips, let's hear what we said directly after the match in our post-match
interview with Tobias Wadenka! So how was your match? It was tough! I think we were leading
the whole way in the first and the second set up until like 15 or 16 in
the second and then they had some really good rallies but I think in the third set,
again at the start it was until about seven all it was really close, and then after the 11 break
we came out really fast and i think they weren't sure what to do so ended up quite good. Definitely!
So yeah that interview pretty much summed it up and I'd say we got our tactics pretty much
spot on by the end of it. So yeah we had we had fun and it was good to see lots of people there
supporting us as well we had a few comments saying "I've seen your videos on YouTube" which is just
really nice for us to see. So we're now playing again on Thursday against the Malaysian pair
so tomorrow we're going to be training, we're going to be getting some physio, doing a few other bits
and most excitingly we're going to be hopefully playing some fun games against some familiar
faces that you just might know so we'll see you then! Morning everyone so we've just had a good
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So we just finished a good practice session and
now we're going to head to the main hall and watch a few of the matches!
So we're just sat here watching Yuta Watanabe and Higashino against compatriots Kaneko and Matsutomo
Oh there's the speed! He's so quick!
Oh there's the stop drop!
Oh good shot!
So as you just saw this afternoon we watched some matches, we watched Watanabe and Higashino lose
so technically we beat them because we got further from the tournament than them but they're probably
going to win the All England now though won't they? So yeah and then after that we did a bit
of editing in a coffee shop although it wasn't that productive because we got distracted by
Marcus and Lauren and also the Scottish team. And yeah since then we went out for food
again we had some chicken, vegetables and rice as it worked well for us on Monday
and we also played some shuffleboard in the hotel but greg did unfortunately win that one...
Congrats to the shuffleboard champ! Anyway now to the present - so it's now around 8:30 p.m
and we've just found out that one at 4 pm tomorrow so for the rest of the
evening we're going to carry on editing this vlog that you're watching right now
and then we're going to get some sleep so we'll catch up with you all tomorrow!
Hi everyone so it's Thursday now and if you're watching carefully you might notice that we're
actually in a different hotel room and this is because we didn't initially book our hotel for
tonight and when we went downstairs this morning they were actually fully booked, so yeah we've had
to move but we're here now and the plan for today is the same as Tuesday - we're gonna do some match
analysis now and then head to the hall for our match. So the match we're watching is their first
round match which is probably the most relevant as it's in the same hall, so same conditions it's
the most recent and they're also playing another European pair here we actually played recently.
So just packing our bag ready to leave for the hall and I thought
I'd show you quickly what we put in there! So key items - accreditation pass,
freshly strung and freshly gripped rackets
and then in here we've got a drink, some snacks, shoes, spare change of kit including a spare
top in case we're in the same color as our opponents, and then in this bag we've just
got like therabands, a little foam rolling ball and other little bits and yeah that's it!
As you guys saw we lost 18 in the third to the Malaysian pair who are currently ranked
10 in the world. Overall we're pretty happy with how we played but yeah losing just sucks. We won't
go into too much more detail on the match now because this video is getting pretty long but
if you are interested in our thoughts then we'll probably go through that in our next
Patreon exclusive match analysis live stream so if you want to check that out we'll include a link
to that in the description below. But on a more positive note we had a chat with the current world
number ones in mixed doubles Dechapol and Sapsiree after our match... We really enjoy your vlogs
and we think they're really good and very funny. In our videos we always say "smash the subscribe button" -
can you guys say that for us for our video? What? Smash the subscribe button. Oh, so hard...
Smash the subscribe, the subscribe, button
Smash subscribe button
Again again! Okay are you ready? 3, 2, 1
Smash the subscribe button!
Do you like it? Yes yes yes, I try
Are you doing one from this tournament?
Yes, maybe German and All England together.
Thank you, good luck, good luck!
So that's it for the German Open! If you're still with us at this point then
please leave a racket emoji in the comments below and as the Thais said, "smash the subscribe button"
and we'll see you back here next Sunday for some more badminton insight, bye!