LCW's NEW game plan for FUTURE

koo_fan · Dec 6, 2007

george@chongwei said: ↑

from nst letter part....wtf!!

Lee Chong Wei should learn to be a gracious loser and give credit to his opponents

FORMER badminton world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei recently sent out a warning to all foreign players about biased officiating at the Beijing Olympics.
This came about following his defeat to Lin Dan in the Hong Kong Super Series men's singles final, which he attributed to unfair officiating.

I watched the live telecast on Sunday. If Chong Wei had played as aggressively as he had done in his first set, trouncing Lin Dan, he probably would have become the Hong Kong Open champion. But, no, he must have thought Lin Dan was rattled by his play and, instead, changed his tactics.

As in previous matches, Chong Wei tried to control play by opting to stroke with Lin Dan. Unfortunately, Lin Dan turned aggressor and, not surprisingly, won the match.

Chong Wei, not for the first time, has offered external excuses for his loss -- the worst was his earlier public complaint about his chief coach.
Now, he has attributed his loss to "a lot of points went in favour of Lin in the final". If I remember well, there were maybe only two dubious calls -- not "a lot of calls" that made Lin Dan the champion.

Dubious line calls are quite common in nearly all games, including tennis and football, and happens everywhere. We in Malaysia are no strangers to these. And if indeed there were "a lot" of wrong calls in his match, the tournament chief referee would have stepped in to change both the umpire and linesman.

While I would rate Chong Wei to be among the top three players in the world today, I think he has yet to mature in his behaviour as a top-class professional badminton player. It's time he grows up and accepts defeat sportingly, and gives credit to his victorious opponents.

On that day, there was no way Chong Wei could have won the second and third sets -- he was outplayed by Lin Dan. He was his own enemy.

It's been a while since we have had a Malaysian singles player at the top of the world's ranking. So I do look forward to seeing Chong Wei up there securely on his own efforts, without any of his opponents having to say: "Chong Wei is up there because he was favoured in his matches by the officials".
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i'll consider u as a mature and wise fan.true fan.

williamtan2020 · Dec 8, 2007

In HK Open final, LCW rarely acknowledges free point from net cords and at one point where his smash landed on Lin Dan, he seemed reluctant to raise his hand to say it was unintentional.

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