All England 2006 Finals:

Choong Tan Fook/ Lee Wan Wah, go!go!go! Go grab the title!

 

i think LD(and LYB) is very desired to win the AE. Given his #1 status, he hasnt won any of the 'big ones' like olympic and WC. Having a AE title at least give him a bragging right over taufik

 

Lin Dan became an All England Champion in 2004.

 

judging from yesterday's match, lin dan proves to be the fighter. even though he was down 6-13 to chong wei, he managed to fight a brave battle to move on to the finals.

 

LD doesn't really need to worry about Taufik. The Indonesian is very inconsistent and doesn't really participate in a lot of tournaments to begin with. Now that the WC happens every year, it is only a matter of time that LD becomes World Champion. Olympics is another matter though, still 2 years to go, not sure if LD can stay no. 1 by then. If he can, surely he will win Olympic gold in front of home crowd? Hmmm, come to think about it, I'm very curious as to how Taufik's marriage will affect his performance...

 

what local time does the first final match starts?

 

i have posted in this thread already, 12.30 pm local time

 

Talking about serve.....Why the he** Gan's serves were almost everytime called fault? I dont see anything wrong with his serves? I think the service judge need to change his glasses.

 

I may have not been around for sometime but who is Jane Hancock?

 

For Ms I will go for Lindan after his outstanding performance over his match vs LCW :crying:

WS: I will still go for my fav Zhang Ning.

MD : CTF and LWW! I hope they will win. Then i will have free dinner. But i do really hope they will win. They had a good start this year and i hope this will continue.

WD: Gao Ling and Huang Sui for the title.

MXD : The British pair of course.

 

now now.. please don't say things about people that i personally know. Malc is one of the best service judges in the business.. because he is prepared to tell people when it is a fault.. the replays show that Gan's racquet head wasn't below his hand.. ie.. his racquet wasn't in a downwards pointing direction.

Coops

 

Lin Dan ALREADY has an All England crown (in 2004 or somewhere there).

 

Gan's serves were very marginal, I was surprised he was not faulted more. I think he needs to go back and practise his serve.

Predictions:
Lin Dan - if he can cut down his mistakes, his mistakes let LCW come back yesterday
Choong/Lee - it's about time for them; also bury the ghost
Zhang Ning
Yang/Zhang
Robertson/Emms (MATCH OF THE DAY) - it will be interesting between Gao and Emms

 

anybody knows what tv streaming shows it live?

 

Any idea where can we see live scores? 247.tv doesn't have it today, and the All-England website doesn't either...

 

RTM is having live telecast (MD)

Game 1
Den 5-1 Mal

 

MAS 1-DEN 6 now

 

den-mal : 7-1
2nd server

 

mal - den:
3 - 7

2nd server

 

MAS 5-7 DEN, DEN serves