It's the most interesting and dramatic days for Malaysian Badminton today! Who on earth is expecting Malaysian to win a China Open Badminton tournament, let alone a women singles.
Wong Mew Choo has done one things that not many people in the world could do - defeating most of the chinese players at the own backyard, former and current world champions, world no 1s. Who would believe Wong Mew Choo will defeat Zhang Ning and Xie Xinfang on two consecutive days, at China's home tournament, and wins the title for our proud Malaysia Badminton history!
Now Wong Mew Choo certainly will walked into the Hall of Fame in Badminton world and I believe people from around the world will recognise Wong Mew Choo from now on! It also proof that Wong MC is no fluke when she defeated Xie Xinfang during the Badminton World Championship back in August '07. She is no fluke in defeating current world champion, Zu Lin in another tournament. Wong Mew Choo han now beaten not only all chinese top players in this single year but also other ex-chinese players and foreign players. We are now all hopeful that she will bring more joy to our national's women's games.
We hope Wong Mew Choo will eventually established herself as one of the force to be reckon in Badminton world. All these time we only bet on our men's to achieve our first ever gold medal in olympic tournament, but who knows the actual person that brings home this first ever olympic gold medals is a surprising Wong Mew Choo.
In contrast, Lee Chong Wei's performance today is just as dissapointing as expected. Lee CW is currently rank 2nd in the world and it is unbelievable that he could be affected easily by a few bad line calls. If he thinks line judges were unfair to him, he should have walked out from the game, rather than continue with such dismal plays. This has brought shame to our nations and image, as this shows how easily he could be affected, and how immature and naive his act was.
The opponents now know Lee will be easily been affected emotionally and this will become his weakness for his opponents to attack. Jung Joo-Young-Lee Yong-Dae walked out from the game after a few bad calls, and this act is to protest to the organiser of unfairness, unlike Lee CW's act. There's no point of continuing if you feel judges are against you and it will be better for CW to walk off than continuing. Best example is Taufik Hidayat. He will just walk out of the court if unfair calls is continuing for 3 to 4 times.
Probably Misbun Sidek, Lee CW's mentor is the one who instructed Lee CW to do so. Like people said "A good coach will produce a good student", and certainly Misbun has succeeded in this sense. Skill wise, I think Lee CW has been more excel than his mentor! (Sorry Misbun, no disrespect but like always the truth hurts)
Probably it's now the time to take some burden off our national men's contigents, so that they would perform more consistently without excessive pressure. I am a little disappointed with Koo-Tan in this China Open and hopefully they can make up during HK Open next week.
Another important issue, hopefully Malaysia media and press will not praise our player too much as this will do more harm than good. A norminal praise shall be enough and life moves on after whatever you won.
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A big congratulation to Wong MC. I couldn't believe it when I heard this great news from my friend. Too bad I missed the live telecast.
in my opinion, it's wise that Lee Chong Wei did not walk out of the match as it would be disrespectful to the sport, and a show of none sportsmanship, like what the Koreans did. supposedly if it's a Olympic final, you think the Koreans would walk out of it??
Maybe he need to be more composed, focus on the match and forget about line calls, which evidently affected his game though... bit sayang lor...
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