The Chinese have been winning most of the titles lately, lets hope Lee Chong Wei can put a stop to that. Park Sung Hwan looks very promising, good for South Korea.
i hope china can win... XD has zhang jun / gao ling... hopefully they can win WS has all top 3 gals there, no doubt one of them will clinch the title MS has only 2 guys left, hopefully one of them can win WD i think gao ling / huang sui stand a pretty high chance MD has both team lost.... hiazzzzz
lee chong wei beat chen hong after all the disputes, after all the mind games, chen hong lost with a smile on his face and shook chong wei's hand. much like he did last year when he won. such a true sport man. i guess he knew that tonight, no matter what, he did lose to a player that performed better in tonight's event. come olympics, i support both of you chong wei and chen hong! i hope chen hong is selected of course
YEAAAAHHH HONGYAN WON!!! No she beat miiia i'm sure she can beat the tall zhang ning =)))) ALLEZZZ HONGYAAAAN VASSYYY DONNE TOI A FOND!!!
ahhhhhhhhhh OMG ....noooo noooooo ='(((((( i am depressed !!! hahahhaahaha no no i must stay fair play lol congratulation to zhang ning =)) i wish hongyan will do better for the OG =) now she beat mia ..she can go far
Holy Cow! I've been 'away' for about three weeks from badminton and had not been following Malaysian Open much due to Euro 2004. And holy mackerel! Lee Chong Wei is da man! He beat his bogeyman (not really, but close), the bogey who defeated him last year in KK at the same tournament. Either he is getting better or Chen Hong is getting crap, I hope it's the former. And Park Sung Hwan beats Lin Dan! As Kwun mentioned, it's one of the three reasons: 1. Peak too early. 2. Lost of focus. 3. Avoiding injury, warm up match. This must serve as a 'positive' news for badminton camps which is not of the Red Republic and we have also seen Bao crash. Truly, I have one true hope for Lee CW - to go and prove that he is not a jaguh kampung* which a lot of Malaysian singles had been called down the years. He must also prove his worth at Athens, Indonesia, Korea, England, everywhere. * literal translation means 'village champion'.
Chen Hong has always been a great sportsman, no doubt about that. Win or lose(mostly win for him ), he is always OK with it. Maybe that's why he is a world champion.
I'm very disappointed that Robertson and Emms had to pull out of the mixed doubles due to Gail having a stomach bug. I'm sure they would have won the semi-final, and it would have been interesting in the final. Does anyone know who won the other mixed semi? Congratulations to Lee Chong Wei, he looks like a great prospect and will mix it with the best of the world for some time. Does anyone think that Chen Hong is now going to struggle to qualify for the Olympics?
Mens doubles!! When will the mensdoubles be played?? Please post the results of Laybourn and Steffensen as sson as you know!! JR
I would not make to many conclusions for the olympics, based on the malaysian open results. Audina's loss, some of the Chinese (cai/fu, lin dan, etc.) losing early... let's not forget it's all just a training before the real thing in Athens. Steffensen/Laybourn lost 13-15, 15-5, 15-10 to Hadiyanto/Alven, after surprisingly beating Lundgaard/Eriksen in the quarters. How's the recovery going, Jonas?
who's gonna win, park sung hwan or lee chong wei? park beat sony, lin, and xia and lee beat gade, bao, and chen it looks pretty even in that matter, btw what happened? how did these two make it to the finals? fluke or did the other players go easy on them?
