The Star Online > Sports Tuesday December 28, 2010 Communication breakdown puts back-up pairs out of home Open By LIM TEIK HUAT KUALA LUMPUR: A lack of proper communication has resulted in all four national back-up men’s pairs under the charge of Tan Kim Her not getting the chance to feature in the Malaysian Open next month. The entries for Mak Hee Chun-Tan Wee Kiong, Chan Peng Soon-Lim Khim Wah, Goh Wei Shem-Teo Kok Siang and Ow Yao Han-Chooi Kah Ming were not submitted for the men’s doubles competition of the home Open scheduled for Jan 18-23 at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil. Hee Chun-Wee Kiong, Peng Soon-Khim Wah and Wei Shem-Kok Siang would have been eligible to play in the main draw of the season-opening Super Series tournament even if the event attracted the world’s top ranked pairs as all of them are ranked inside the top 30. Instead, they will be resigned to playing only the mixed doubles. The Badminton Association of Malaysia’s (BAM) entries for the men’s doubles are world No. 2 Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong, Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari-Ong Soon Hock, Hoon Thien How-Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif, Vountus Indra Mawan-Mohd Lufti Zaim Abdul Khalid and Nelson Heg Wei Kiat-Teo Ee Yi. Two independent Malaysian pairs – Gan Teik Chai-Tan Bin Shen and Chan Chong Ming-Lee Wan Wah – are also in the fray. World No. 1 Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen of Denmark, South Korea’s Lee Yong-dae-Jung Jae-sung and China’s Fu Haifeng-Cai Yun are not among the entries and it would have been a good chance for the back-up pairs to stamp their mark in their own backyard. The BAM general manager, Kenny Goh, said yesterday: “I find it strange that the mixed doubles entries were submitted but not the men’s doubles. “It only came to our attention after the deadline for entries. The coach admitted that he made a mistake in not submitting their names.” To be fair to Kim Her, who is now taking a break from coaching, he was with the players at the Hong Kong Open when entries closed on Dec 14. The incident has only highlighted the need for a better communication set-up between the coaching department and administrative side of the BAM now that different coaches are in charge of different groups. http://thestar.com.my/services/printerfriendly.asp?file=/2010/12/28/sports/7692738.asp&sec=sports Hahaha, so this is the reason why....
the way i look at it, it should not be the coach to be blamed entirely its the administrative side, who is in charge definitely does not know who these doubles players are one look at the malaysian entries without their names should prompt them to make a re-confirmation with the coach responsible, if not avaliable, to the chief coach
Rexy said he would also work closely with back-up coach Tan Kim Her and his top three charges – Goh Wei Shem-Teo Kok Siang, Mak Hee Chun-Tan Wee Kiong and Lim Khim Wah-Chan Peng Soon, who are all geared towards qualification for the Olympic Games too. “We have met and divided the tournaments between our players. We are also training together at least four times a week. We have a common goal – to establish a solid doubles department at both the elite and back-up levels,” said Rexy. Currently, Wei Shem-Kok Siang are ranked 22nd, followed by Hee Chun-Wee Kiong at 24th. Khim Wah-Peng Soon are in 30th spot http://thestar.com.my/services/printerfriendly.asp?file=/2011/1/8/sports/7760313.asp&sec=sports
I see more future in GWS/TKS now, they brought MB/CM to rubber games after all Of course I am hoping all do well including MHC/TWK
Seriously, are they (these 3 pairs) important? Look at CHN MD2 and MD3... INA MD2... Den MD... etc... still boleh?
Don't compare pebbles and rocks. Just hope that these 3 can improve. And of course they are important, they are the future of MAS MD for goodness sake.
and why is always MAS players are considered as pebbles and others are rocks.........something is very wrong here ! And cant complaint if they keep losing and never make it..........because they are just pebbles....??
MAS is weaker in terms of badminton to Korea and China. If we can call Tanongsak from Thailand promising although he always loses and never quite making it, why can't we call our losers promising too? Not to mention, MAS is weaker than Indonesia and Thailand too! Denmark only has JOJ waiting and its still too early to say anything for Viktor as he has not won anything yet. Let's use same standard for MAS and countries like THA for men and for women... no need to say, LOL. So because MAS is weaker, naturally our players also should be weaker than CHN and KOR pairs... our MD 1 is like their MD 2... the only exception is our MS 1 who is regarded as the second best in the world! And about too early, you can say Tanongsak still young, our MD also still young, no need to complain until they become like Fuzzy and HTH/OSH, then we can complain all we want! This is my point of view, don't judge a player's success just because they cannot beat any players... and don't compare a no-name MAS to countries like CHN and KOR, INA too!
A disappointment from GWS/TKS as they have lost to China's youngsters and TKS's former world junior rival Qiu Zihan.
Wonder if the rest, MHC-TWK, CPS-LKW are competing in coming SS Opens. Have been quiet lately.Training hard under TKH to prepare for the biggies like AE I suppose. Apparently left out from MO 2011 by accident, not selected for KO 2011.
seem Mak Hee Chun-Tan Wee Kiong can be malaysia no. 1 pairs, but must more consistensy in their game.
Our top pair isn't too consistent too. It's tough to be consistent as we need both partners on form instead of only one person on form as opposed to singles. But yeah, Mak and Tan have been on the down side since their QF finish at the Japan and Denmark Open...
u want a consistent lee ww/ctf version 2? who never win big? but everytime reach semi final at least?
MHC/TWK and GWS/TKS should be in the National GP Finals! (Don't think CPS/LKW qualify ) Hope that MHC/TWK can grab their 2nd national title and hope that either one of them will give a strong showing in the German Open, possibly reach SF or even Final! Good point, but they would be good for team events.
is it? so u only want a pair who did consistently to reach semi final and did well in team event?(chong/lee version 2) or not consistent at all but will win something big some times?
The one pair that came to my mind is MK-HS, I wouldn't say they are not consistent, but not as consistent in winning tournaments like CY-FHF, but they sure peaked at the right time by winning the big ones like OG and AG..I wouldn't mind that kind of 'inconsistency'. BUT ..looking at our back-up pairs, i don't think they belong to either category..for starters, they should start playing consistently to their own standards before thinking about winning big..or even qualifying for semis in SS.
=) Step by step, they have to regularly beat the pairs who they are expected to beat, while at the same time trying to pull off upsets over higher-ranked pairs and dangerous opponents. Actually, finishing in QF, or SF is subjective to the draw.
