TheStar 5th Dec 06 OLYMPIC champion Taufik Hidayat took aim at the Chinese yesterday after losing to arch rival Lin Dan in three enthralling sets, telling them to put a sock in it. Taufik accused 23-year-old Lin Dan of arrogance on Friday but with a second successive victory over the 26-year-old Indonesian in the men's team semi-final tie, the Chinese star again proved action was louder than words. Taufik, known as the “bad boy” of the sport for his unpredictable temperament, refused to rise to questions about the reaction to his comments and instead turned his fire on the Chinese media. “I don't want to talk about him (Lin),” said Taufik, who is playing his last Asian Games. “The Chinese press is always talking about me. Why talk? I just want to play. It's always the Chinese media that talk about me. What's the problem?” Lin Dan also took a pot shot at the press but he did not lay it specifically at the feet of his domestic media. “They (the media) just took a few words to create a story. Basically I don't really care,” he said. Taufik had only himself to blame for the loss and will rue conceding a comfortable first game lead of 13-9 to end up losing it 22-20. He bounced back in the second to take it convincingly at 21-13 with both players entertaining the large crowd with some splendid rallies. However, despite winning the first point of the rubber game, Taufik was always chasing the match and he went down 12-21. There was little sign of the animosity between the two at the end as they shook hands with Lin Dan even patting Taufik on the back and both paid each other compliments afterwards. China went on to win the contest 3-1.
He may blame on Lin Dan's parent next. If Lin Dan was never borned, Chen Jin would have played first single instead and Taufik would have won.
doesn't this proves LD isn't as arrogance as 'some' people say he is? Even after media had reported that the motor mouth bad mouthed LD, LD didn't say anything bad about TH and plus LD diverted the 'mess' onto the media instead. TH vented frustration to media now because he learned that pre-match verbal attack didn't affected LD performance at all so he goes after the media. You can't blame the media for writing about him (TH) when he give them material to write about.
I don't read any blasting there. It sounds to me as if the media were fishing for a juicy quote like they got on the weekend and Taufik got pissed off. If I had just lost a big match after being caught putting my foot in my mouth about my opponent, I think I would get a little frustrated too.
Naw, there's no way I could be Taufik in anything badminton related. The only thing I could beat Taufik in would be getting to the buffet line.
No... China open 06 quarter finals. The 3rd game was amazing and showed how Chen Jin could be the next world championship material.
Exactly. The media will give any quote Taufik makes a full story because they know people will react this way. Even Lin Dan agrees as you've read in the article. Did anybody pay even the slightest bit of attention to: I think people should just give Taufik a rest. It seems anything he does he's going to get attacked for it. Anything he does will make the papers - any little quote. He's given us two brilliant games against LD in the space of less than a week. There was no walking off, giving up or anything. Yet nobody seems to notice that. Everyone is far to busy focusing on the latest "big news" about him. It's like hollywood celebrities. Any little bit of information they can get no matter how trivial will be printed.
LOTR(lord of the racket): fellowship of the PBSI(taufik being so loyal would use all methods to win for PBSI) LOTR : the 2 netpoles(towers), actually no relation just a bad line call and he walks out LOTR : the return of the what? is he a king? maybe yes maybe not, but he has nvr reached world number though being able to have a 11 point lead against LinDan, so is he a king? dont think so we can use terminator terminated 1: taufik sent from the future to make your average badminton match less exciting by not giving in his best during play. terminated 2: bad line judgement day oh is it in or out? i dunno but taufik definitely is out, as he walked ouy after a bad line call however *taufik: I'll be back* Terminated 3: rise of the more worthy players more players worth to watch their matches come in, taufik's matches get boring.
OG08 is 2 years away. By then, CH, PG, TH and LCW may not be a threat to the gold. If CJ meets LD in final, and they are allowed to fight it out and not game fixing, I would bet my buck 49 cents on CJ taking gold. 2 years is a long time for CJ to gain experience and improve his game. Just my opinion.
i know, i like taufik alot especially when he is playing at 100% effort, but he does have a big attitude problem, which seldom lets us see some good matches from him