Australia Open Day 4
It has been raining all day today and I wonder if the humidity level had any influence of the players performance. Well, it did to me
I supposed everyone has all watched the matches on both court 1 and 2. So I will just mentioned a bit about the matches on court 3.
2-Takahasi/Matsutomo vs Kim/Kong
When I arrived there the second match has already started half-way. But from the look of it, TakaMatsu was dealing with Kim/Kong just fine. Their defense were quite solid and it was harder for Kim/Kong to break the defense. In G2, TakaMatsu had some questionable line calls against them, and it affected them a bit though they managed to pull themselves together and finished the match without losing any game. The Koreans couldn't deal with Matsumoto at the front.
3-Jindapol vs Ongbamruhphan (Seriously Thai players name are just so hard to spell)
I was too caught up watching the matches in the other courts (sorry girls) especially between Han/Zhou against Choi/Seo which ended up with the Korean winning of the Chinese.
4-Okuhara vs Yeo
Okuhara seemed to be a bit struggling and to be disappointed or upset with herself. Even so Yeo wasn't able to make the most of it or create an upset. She seemed to be struggling physically herself toward the end of G2 too.
5-Ginting vs Sugiarto
Just like the scoreline suggested, Ginting dominated the whole game. I thought something was off and it turned out that Tommy was suffering some back pain. He asked to see a medic, had her sprayed on his back after G1 over. But before G2 could start, he came up to the umpire and said he could not continue the match. Ginting through to the SF without any difficulty.
6-Ahsan/Hendra vs Ko/Shin
Disappointing yet unexpected result. I thought of recording the match with my phone, but I stopped after the first 4 points. Too many obstacles and I didn't think my battery would have lasted long enough.
Puzzling performance by Ahsan/Hendra today but an inspiring one by Ko/Shin.
Ahsan struggled all the time to find his better form, Hendra made some great shots with his anticipations and all but his partner's bad form affected his performance too unfortunately. Even at the front, Hendra wasn't as sharp as he usually was in good form. On the other hand, Ko/Shin was doing really well. They attacked really well and they returned most of INA attacks with ease and even able to counter attack Ahsan's smashes for a number of times. At some point, Ko (not Shin) was actually successfully intercepting Ahsan's drop shot at the net and killing it. That was how weak and predictable Ahsan's attacks had been all match. Many flat exchanges ended with Ahsan messing up, I guess he was just not feeling fit today.
In other words, a bad day for Ahsan/Hendra but a great day for Ko/Shin. I hope Ko/Shin could do well against Li/Liu tomorrow.
Again another disappointing result when LD lost to Christie. I guess the latter did really well to not letting the former to build up any tactical plan in the first set. LD did much better in G2 and actually looked pretty confidence. But had to lose in the end, unfortunate. It was thrilling and the crowd were merged into one in emotion when LD managed to catch up toward the end of G2. But luck wasn't on LD or his supporters side today.

Felt so ripped off, they are smart to make the tickets non-refundable. Darn the organizers lol. Too bad we didn't have hawkeye, but I supposed they only have enough fund to install it in SF and F? Stupid organizers.

