Singapore Open : Finals

[cooler]

holy s--t, what a reversal

[FEND.]

and LCW hits ti wide!!1 10 - 1!!!!

[FEND.]

Alright LCW takes back the serve!! 1 - 10. LCw lifts KJ drops and KJ manages to put it thru!!!

[FEND.]

1 - 10 now as LCW's smash is down the line!! and LCW long high serve anadnd crosourt it and drives it and KJdrops it and clears and kJ's CROSSCOURT IS IN!! 10 - 1!!!

[FEND.]

10 - 1 now and LCW looks like he lost it!! 11 - 1 now!!!

[jaclyn]

aiyo!!!
scare now!!!
11-1

[FEND.]

LCW now drops it and drops it again and pushes it IN!!! NICELY DONE! 1 - 11!!

[ksooi]

looks like LCW has lost the plot........

[cooler]

LCW reminds me of ong ewe hock.
lot of jumpsmashes at first but poop out in the end

[FEND.]

11 - 1 now!!! LCW hitting the tape of the net!!!

[FEND.]

OMGOODNESS KJ nicely done taking the shot and dropping itunreachable by LCW!!!

[FEND.]

1 - 12 now LCW ROUSSCOURTING SMASHING AND LIFTS I MAKING KJ RUN AND KJ SMASHE AND TAKES BACKT HESERVE!!!

[FEND.]

12 - 1 now KJ to serve and now KLCw lifts and lits it out!! 13 - 1!!!

[jaclyn]

can chong wei turn the table round!!!!
13-1 :crying: :crying: :crying:

[FEND.]

14 - 1 now KJ IS TAKING IT NOW!!!

[cooler]

LCW is a goner now, yay KJ

[FEND.]

LCw to serve now 1 - 14 and LCW drops it and lifts it and lifts it again SMASHES IT IN!! 2 - 14!!!

[FEND.]

4 - 14 ANOTHER SMASH BY KJ against the net a and now LCW lifts and LCW's clear is long!! 14 - 4!!!

[FEND.]

Kj Takes It!! 15 - 4!!!!!!

[cooler]

lol, LCW last spurt of energy, and poof !

[jaclyn]

can anyone tell me what happen to lee chong wei!!!!
:crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

[ksooi]

:crying: :crying: :crying:

looks the the 'kampung' jinx strikes again.....LCW can only win in Malaysia.......

[- 73* -]

can anyone tell me what happen to lee chong wei!!!!
:crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

nothing happened to lee CW, Jonassen simply played superbly

[FEND.]

can anyone tell me what happen to lee chong wei!!!!
:crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:
He threw it away. He realy is crying now. As shown on Tv now.

[laughable c.]

that was a MOST AMAZING COMEBACK from kenneth! congrats to him for his grit and determination in his 2nd game.

as to what happened to chong wei, he was obviously overconfident in the 2nd set.

[FEND.]

:crying: :crying: :crying:

looks the the 'kampung' jinx strikes again.....LCW can only win in Malaysia.......
Don't worry. There's always another day http://www.badmintoncentral.com/vb/images/smilies/smile.gif

Time to bring the computer back up!!!

[cooler]

that was a MOST AMAZING COMEBACK from kenneth! congrats to him for his grit and determination in his 2nd game.

as to what happened to chong wei, he was obviously overconfident in the 2nd set.


call it the ong ewe hock syndrome

[Go Gade]

Any pics from the match???

[ksooi]

I bet i know what the Msian coaches will say to LCW.......'inexperience' :(

[cooler]

I dont have a DSLR :o and i'm not at the Open :o

[jaclyn]

He threw it away. He realy is crying now. As shown on Tv now.
yup
his look very disappointed!!!!
:crying: :crying:

[ksooi]

I would also be dissapointed and crying if i lost like that :crying: .....it was there for the taking..... :crying:

Well, hopefully with the new BAM mandate, M'sian players will win more titles instead of being the bridesmaid most of the time....... :) :) :)

[Cheung]

A very interesting match.

Lee definately could have won but pacing himself was a problem.

He had a hard match yesterday, played brilliantly first game, relaxed a bit in the 2nd and then lost his rhythm.

Kenneth kept getting the shuttle back, kept the rallies going and made Lee work hard. There was no way Lee was going to win the 3rd game after losing the 2nd game.

[FEND.]

My, that was a great game. GG to Kenneth for winning it in style. GL to LCW for the future.

HF to the forumers as I hope you guys had fun watching it or seeing the commentry here. http://www.badmintoncentral.com/vb/images/smilies/smile.gif

Anyways LCW had very little mental strength if you compared it against KJ. KJ was very strong mentally especially in the 2nd and 3rd sets. Malaysian Players after the early 90s generation have very little fight back spirit as compared to other players currently.

Prolly it's like what cooler said, Ong Ewe Hock Syndrome. If you'd like to call it that.

I'd just say LCW didn't have a good finishing that's all http://www.badmintoncentral.com/vb/images/smilies/smile.gif

[hcyong]

:crying: :crying: :crying:

looks the the 'kampung' jinx strikes again.....LCW can only win in Malaysia.......

At least he can win somewhere :)

But seriously, I think he broke down mentally. His game is based on precision and once he tightens up, errors keep coming. Losing by a huge margin in the rubber game is indication of that. No way is Kenneth that far away. If LCW has the Kenneth mentality, he will be very hard to stop.

Well, congrats to Kenneth, and to LCW, being second is not too bad.

[Lobber]

Kenneth fought well in the second n third match despite his defeat at the first.
LCW is just no match against him.I like LCW smaches alot.I wonder what happened to LCW in the third game...he dun seem to be playing well..

For Men double,it an easy win for the INDO pair.They are they agressive and fast in speed

[khelben]

yeah the second set was indeed very very tense... the atmosphere in the stadium wuz phenomenal!! haha but kenneth's court coverage as well as his reflexes were SUBLIME today :D ... haha think lcw got very frustrated when kenneth found his rythmn and all of lcw's smashes/drops etc came right back over... i personally think he tried too hard in the first game... he was very fsat and sharp then but he inevitably over exerted himself saving nothing for later which in my opinion is a mistake when playing against a fighter like kenneth... haha from the later part of the second game all the way to the third all kenneth did was really to make lcw move aound court alot and lcw wuz indeed becoming to predictable... in the first game he kept attacking kenneth's backhand side which saw many points coming from there... but he just kept on doing and attacking the same side leaving kenneth with no guess work to be done... well all in all i must say it wuz def the best match of the day... haha

[hcyong]

i personally think he tried too hard in the first game... he was very fsat and sharp then but he inevitably over exerted himself saving nothing for later which in my opinion is a mistake when playing against a fighter like kenneth

I don't think so. At least he had enough energy to get to match point in the second set. But the deciding factor was that he could not convert the match point. Even in deuce, he got the first point but once again could not capitalise. It was very tense, but once KJ got it, it was over. Theorectically, LCW could have made the third set a tough fight, but he switched off mentally. Ironically, I think that if LCW lost the second set easily, the third would have been much more interesting.

[ants]

Well thats the problem with Msians Mental problem..

[jug8man]

so far LCW record is 3 finals....... and champion in 1 of them. thats a 33.33% (which is not bad...) success rate so far in a 50-50 environment. i wouldnt be too hasty on pinning it on mental problem or 'village-complex' coz i think its just too early to conclude such.

all i can is that he has proven that he is a world class player and capable of great things. but another thing that can be said is that he is a not a lin dan (5 finals this year: five championships ----> 100%).

but how many ppl can be put in the same class as lin dan? i think LD's accomplishments this year is begining to dwarf Gade's and Taufik's past and present acheivements.

anybody with the statistics?


my take on LCW loss was due to the the wrong strategy againts the wrong opponent. ie a to fast and exhausting approach againts someone just too stubborn to call it quits. KJ is trully a real fighter.

[Loh]

As past matches have shown, anyone playing against Kenneth Jonassen should never be complacent and always be on guard as KJ has proven to be a great fighter to the last! :D

Hopefully, Lee Chong Wei has learned from this encounter and emerge as good a fighter as KJ in the years ahead.

[Loh]

Did you know that the trigger-happy (on the PC keyboard that is) FEND. even had time to call me on the handphone (from Brunei) during the Finals to say he couldn't see us and our banner on TV? Obviously he was glued to the TV in order to report the results alsmost instantaneously for the benefit of BFers who had no direct access to the proceedings.

Well, we had a slight hitch at the SIS. The person in charge was very buzy managing the fun activities at the lobby and at the same time looking after the requirements at the main arena, As a result, she was unable to put up our banner and block up the seats for our group.

Kwun decided to get back the banner and we put it up on the railing just behind our row of seats, for which we went early at 12 pm to 'reserve' them ourselves. But after about an hour or so, we had to take down the banner because of 'complaints'. It could be from the spectators sitting right behind whose view was blocked by the banner or from the advertisers for commercial reasons. That was why the BC.com banner was not fully in sight due to the short time exposure and the less than prominent location it was hung up.

But thanks for the call, Edmund. It was a pleasant surprise coming from you. Our loss at the SIS is however a gain to the other BF members as they can continue to benefit from your fast and explosive coverage of the finals! :)

[kwun]

FEND called?? that's cool. :)

i did managed to take a picture before the banner was requested to be taken down and before all the seats are filled. i outlined approx where the BC'ers are sitting. it was a scramble at the beginning to block out seats after we found out that we didn't get the assigned seat.

[Loh]

Here's where our BC.com banner was positioned:

[Sealman]

Ladies Doubles Final: China vs Thailand

[Sealman]

Saw Bao Chunlai filming the Men Singles Final at the VIP seats. Probably wanted to study Lee Chong Wei's game and reflect upon why he lost the semi-final to Lee Chong Wei.

Huang Sui was sitting nearby patiently waiting for her sweetheart. She was wearing a simple top and pants. Initially I was wondering who she was and thought she was a model until someone pointed out she was Huang Sui. She looked indeed different. Bao gave his windbreaker to Huang Sui as it was getting chilly in SIS. ;)

[Pball]

can anyone tell me what happen to lee chong wei!!!!
:crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

I was watching this live yesterday... seemed like LCW ran out of gas, started to mishit some smashes.. then lose composure...

this is not to take anything away from KJ. Anyone who comes back like that is a real champion in my book.. nerves of ice!!

[Pball]

that was a MOST AMAZING COMEBACK from kenneth! congrats to him for his grit and determination in his 2nd game.

as to what happened to chong wei, he was obviously overconfident in the 2nd set.


yup... have to agree with you on this one, started to do some fancy shots,
and allowed KJ back into the game....

[laughable c.]

yup... have to agree with you on this one, started to do some fancy shots,
and allowed KJ back into the game....
mmm. so you never agreed with me on other occasions?? :D :D

[laughable c.]

Huang Sui was sitting nearby patiently waiting for her sweetheart. She was wearing a simple top and pants. Initially I was wondering who she was and thought she was a model until someone pointed out she was Huang Sui. She looked indeed different. Bao gave his windbreaker to Huang Sui as it was getting chilly in SIS. ;)
who's the sweetheart? :confused:

[Sealman]

who's the sweetheart? :confused:
Bao Chunlai. They looked like a couple to me.:)

[Badmincraze]

Bao Chunlai. They looked like a couple to me.:)
nope... BCL's sweetheart is someone else... :p:D

[labyrinthian]

Bao Chunlai. They looked like a couple to me.:)
hmm.. I don't think they are together, I guess they are quite close because both are from Hunan, and Huang Sui seems to like to tease Bao alot. :p Huang Sui was the one who leaked the news to the media that Bao and Luo are together. and I think Bao and Luo are still together..

[Loh]

hmm.. I don't think they are together, I guess they are quite close because both are from Hunan, and Huang Sui seems to like to tease Bao alot. :p Huang Sui was the one who leaked the news to the media that Bao and Luo are together. and I think Bao and Luo are still together..

Looks to me that Huang Sui treats Bao like his elder sister. ;)

[Badmincraze]

Looks to me that Huang Sui treats Bao like his elder sister. ;)
erm, did u mean the other way round ?!?!

[labyrinthian]

Looks to me that Huang Sui treats Bao like his elder sister. ;)
Haha, lolz.. when did Bao become elder sis? :D :D
i think loh means Bao is like a younger brother to Huang Sui.. :p

[Sealman]

hmm.. I don't think they are together, I guess they are quite close because both are from Hunan, and Huang Sui seems to like to tease Bao alot. :p Huang Sui was the one who leaked the news to the media that Bao and Luo are together. and I think Bao and Luo are still together..
but they look so compatible ;)

[labyrinthian]

but they look so compatible ;)
Haha, but too bad, Bao only has eyes for Luo.. :p

[jkusmanto]

Has anybody seen ?
In the picture of WS celebration, I don't the cap on the China's players anymore.
It seems that the contract with the sponsor has been stoped. :D