Australia Open GPG Day 5 (April 10, 2011) - Finals

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  1. BadFever

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    Here is #21. I saw a lot of people(old, young, very young and babies) stalking and taking photos with players, especially Wang Lin. Wonder why no one posted any photos. :confused:
     
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    yeah, it's the 2nd now - to get over the 10% Limit I would need to put my 3rd post :eek:
    but saving my time - already here congrats to the uncle first, good achievement, but for the German finals he needs a little more luck!
     
  3. Yoppy

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    that's cos they don't want their picture to be in BC. Shy maybe.
     
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    Yoppy I'm sure you have some pics to share with us since you made it a point to fly down from Sydney. ;)
     
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    yes I did Loh, and I got a few pics as well. I will try to upload them when I got back to Sydney :). I'm at the airport while writing this lol.
     
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    have a safe trip back!

    i'll share the very few pics i took on the other days once i upload them onto my laptop as well.
     
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    Uncle Wong tried his best and put up a determined display against a much younger and faster opponent. Until the last point was won, the match could still have gone either way. Everytime WCH fell down to retrieve a shot, I was worried that those old knees wouldn't be able to recover from the impact on the floor!
     
  8. undeadshot

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    Sasaki isn't that much younger, he's 28 or 29 I think, but yeah, on second thoughts probably much younger compared to 34 :p
     
  9. Yoppy

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    Sho Sasaki looked so fit and well trained. I saw him took his shirt off, and although I'm not a gay, could not help but stare at his muscle body lol. He must have trained the way samurai or Karate black belt did, I would not dare mess around with this monk head bloke. BTW did you guys notice he does not get along with his team mates?? Also i did not see him smile even once. And all of his Japan team mates left the court even before his match was finished.
     
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    cos sasaki is awesome....
     
  11. PrimeShuttler

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    Can somebody provide more information on this?
    The Japanese players seem to have a few different groups, like based on the names of the sponsors on their shirts.
    Tonami, Panasonic, Unisys etc.
    So does this mean that they are independent players from those companies rather than say the Japan national federation? Or is the Japan badminton national federation being sponsored by so many different companies?
     
  12. Yoppy

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    Yes they seem to form 3 different group. Even when they match each other, each of them had a coach on the side line. Ussually when both players coming from the same camp they wont have any coach during the match.
     
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    yes, it did seem this way, with only the top national team players seem to be coached by Masuda. the rest were under club coaches.
     

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