. 2009 Indonesia Open - 21 June - Day 6 (Finals) Greetings, So we have arrived at Finals Day. In the 5 final events, we find only seeded players remaining, the lowest are seeded 6, namely; * Womens Singles ...... Saina Nehwal [IND] * Mens Doubles .......... Jung Jae Sung & Lee Yong Dae [KOR] For all matches and their results as they are progressing live: click here For current time in Jakarta: click here The first match is the Mixed Doubles starting at 1:00pm. Good Luck to all finalists. They have already done a great job to arrive at the Finals. Cheers... chris-ccc .
For all Malaysians, "how do you beat Taufik today?" If I were Misbun , here's the advice. "He is a slow starter, so win the first set at all cost!, remember, this is Jakarta so this is his territory and it won't be easy. Give away the second set if he has a lead towards the end by more than 6 points and get him in the 3rd. Your (LCW) fitness is slightly better than his. Get back some of his 305 Kph jumping smash to frustrate him and watch some of his 250kph backhand smash too. You must love the noise, Jakarta fans have good lungs, they can be louder than Airbus A380 and you must learn to love noises.Just win, play 101% and win in 2 tight sets or three, but just win it"
Talked to some players of MD: CHN MD said that they prefer to play KOR in semi..and they are glad not to play INA MD in SF KOR loves playing INA or KOR, not CHN MD..hehe MAS MD said they prefer KOR and INA MD... Haha..well....I guess it depends who meet who in WC...
To me, the main pleasent surprise comes from Sainal! It's certainly nice to see how she progress and she will make the WS more interesting to watch in the future. Chinese is still very dominating in all events even though most of their players suffer from ranking problem due to the absent of tournament participations. In a way, is a blessing to badmitnon comminuty that the Chinese players don't occupy all the top world ranking which force them to play among one another in early round else we would see them monopolizing in semi and final, playing against team mates and dictating the pace and outcomes. It's quite obvious LYB is using this tournament to re-allign the players' ranking so the same old strategy can be deployed prior to the World Championship. I hope more quality new players like Sainal, Lee Yong Dae emerge soon to counteract the Chinese domination which is not very healthy to this sports(more like heading to table tennis situation). China may win 4 out of 5 titles in IO but still consider an exciting and successful tournament as none of the event in the final is China vs China.
In a way, is a good test for both players. Taufik can test his "form" and judge where he's prior to World Championship against the world #1 while Chong Wei can test his "maturity" under pressure and hostile crowd. And for fan, we don't have to see any arguement about changing shuttle, quite a rare treatment nowaday My blessing for both players!
75 minutes to go,. Hoping that Saina and Taufik win the title here. IMO China will just get 2 titles from MD and either XD/WD
Saina FTW...Its abt time... TH, this is ur turf- easy to get complacent but be aggressive and go for the kill from the word: GO"..
Ma Jin, Zheng Bo, Lee Hyo Jung, Lee Yong Dae and a Korean coach were practically the only ones on the first team bus. Lee Yong Dae had to literally run away from the chasing papparazzi girls to make the bus trip.
Sadly Kido/Setiawan didn't win yesterday's game >< they played good but like to make self mistake (>.<) And i hope Taufik can win against LCW (^0^) I hope FHF/CY can win too!!!!!!
If FHF/CY and ZB/MJ win then LYD maybe will blame the paparazzi because they make him tired of running before the game start
