Currently none of my laptops (OpenOffice, MS Office 2002, 2003) can handle xlsx format. I have no intention to upgrade to M$ Office 2007. Did a quick google search, there are conversion routines available. Tried one, didn't work for me. Unless the latest OpenOffice support xlsx format, it is a dead end for me.
the problem is the forum's 200k attachment limit. for some reason the xlsx is much compact with only about 25% of the xls version. but the forum don't accept the xlsx format therefore I posted the zipped version. now, attached is the 2 parts version of the xls file. hope this work.
alan next time is better for u to post up 2 type of file so the problem will be solved no more asking for another type mar
Will you continue post xls format in the future? I like the latest xls format file that total count frame stays on top of page and the rest of file just scrolling under, pretty cool! I also tried the xlsx format with the latest OpenOffice 3.1 and got input/format error with 2007 excel filter selected. I won't bother further with xlsx file if xls will be available.
ZYW is a real genius in doubles, winning titles with whoever partnered her... pity that she could not have a regular partner like KL/WS or YW/ZJW, otherwise she could be at the top of WD ranking and grab more major titles including more SS titles....
updated with China Open results this concluded the first 3 years of SS. the winners for 2009 are, MS - LD with 4 titles from 6 t'ments and LCW also with 4 titles from 10 t'ments. between the 2 of them they took 2/3 that were available. WS - WYH with 5 titles. MD - LYD/JJS with 4 titles. WD - MJ/WXL with 3 titles but the real winner is ZYW's 4 titles with 3 different partners ZTT, PP and QT. plus the world champion with QTT of course. XD - ZB/MJ with 3 titles. Overall, CHN won 29 out of the 60 titles in 2009. not quite half of them but they didn't played in the first 2 t'ments of the year!
that's about right for CHN to win 3 in a tourament is a norm. but not to forget that CHN didn't sent their first team to INA and DEN opens that made it even more impressive.
yes, if you take out the 2 t'ments without the first team you ended up with 27 titles from 8 t'ments, that's almost 7 titles for 2 t'ments. this is not good, not good for badminton at all. just like tennis when the 2 williams sisters paly against each other, no matter how good they are I just can't pick up the energy to watch. it's up to the rest of the world to catch up rather than waiting for CHN to drop their standard or even slow down the rate that they produce more and more world class shuttlers. competition in MD is very good and health, if only we have something similar in the other 4 events then badminton will be in a better shape to move forward.
... I don't know, expecially after watching CO... maybe we should say this is not good for the popularity of badminton... but it might not be the case if technically... look at the MS finals with WD and WS finals in CO... I would rather like to watch the more exciting WS / WD finals... it's boring and torturing to watch the lopsided MS final... it's no good for badminton if other countries did not improve good enough to compete with China... for the sake of badminton sports, we should also not be expecting for Chinese standard to drop in order to allow for more competitiveness.... thank god that China, especially LD in MS and their WS/WD players, still strives for perfection even they are now in a leading position...
the porblem is matches between CHN players are never competitive with the exception in finals, even that is not a given (e.g. 2008AE MS). Otherwise they will play for the best of 1, i.e. whoever lost the first game forfeit the match. tough luck if you're a slow starter! Or, the coach will decide the player with better chance to go further and win (e.g. 2000 OLY WS semi).
I concur.. ..and that goes pretty much with other countries, not just CHN, esp. if it's a match involving the same national team players.
we can speculate but it's hard to prove it one way or the other. even CHN's head coach LYB sort of confirmed it I suppose.
Not so much of that.. ..it's just hard to enjoy 2 same compatriots playing against each other..maybe very few cases (if they're really2 good: Sigit & Candra vs. Tony & Halim)..
agree, it's not a problem with CHN only, just because the mighty CHN have the most chances to have this happened in front of us, as they have so many good players that are able to proceed to QF and/or SFs... this is a case of vested interest vs moral standard... take an example, one day in Semi-Final of WC or OG, LCW vs Hafiz on upper half, LD vs PG on the other half, as Malaysian or Malaysian coach, which one between LCW and Hafiz would you like to be in the Final?? would they consider a gold medal / WC more important or fair play more important??? a big struggle I guarrantee you...
