Friday, June 20, 2008

SinGaPore Open

Sorry for long time no post.. Was too busy with sejarah project. And too many things to do. Anyway now i will talk about the Singapore Open which ended last week. Lee Chong Wei was more then superb. He beat World Ranking No.12 Simon Santoso easily. with only 21-13 21-5. In the second game, Lee Chong Wei was leading 15-0! Have you ever seen any international matches so lopsided!? I never! But Lee Chong Wei got happy too early and Simon Santoso got 5 points. If Lee Chong Wei wasnt happy to early, it was possible for a 21-0.

On the other side, Zakry-Fairurizuan won also. And another malaysian pair got second. This was because most of the top pairs are not playing including Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan, Cai Yun-Fu Hai Feng, Lee Yong Dae-Jung Jae Sung, Choong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah and Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong. BAM should have chose Zakry-Fairurizuan ofr the Olympics.. However, Koo-Tan and Chong-Lee was going.

If it was me, i would have chose Zakry-Fairurizuan rather than Chong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah. This is because Lee Wan Wah had an injury and it might happen again in the Olympics. They also play too much defensive game and is totally different from Zakry-Fairurizuan's game. Zakry-Fairurizuan's smash is stronger and their defense is also good.

Anyway, i tink i will end here

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

A Game in Training 2

After this 2 weeks training,i think i have improved a little bit...haha...Well, only daryl,me,ryan and ah xiong came training for this 2 weeks. Today was quite fun at training. We played doubles with coach and ryan. I partner daryl and coach partner ryan. Daryl and i lost to coach straight sets 21-14,21-13 i think..hehe...dun really remember the scores.This will be a "warm up" game for us..

So,we played another game.We won the first set but unfortunately lost the second set. At the beginning of the deciding game, i told daryl to change our strategy. We keep attacking ryan and keep the shuttle flat so that they cannot smash . His defence was quite good at the beginning. Since this is a deciding game,we changed place when the score is 11-9. After the interball, we managed to grab 5 points continuously by attacking ryan.

Daryl smashed and the shuttle land on the line for 2 times. I can feel that ryan is getting frustrated at the end of the game. I can still get the shuttle when he was smashing infront of the net.At last he missed the shuttle and we had our match point..haha..I was quite happy that time.Itz 13-20 match point. We made 2 mistakes and the point is 15-20. I was quite nervous but still played seriously. Lastly Daryl's drop was too high up and coach went infront to smash. So i just turn around so that wont get hit by the shuttle. Coach suddenly tried to drop but the shuttle did'nt went through the net. WE WON THE GAME..21-15..haha..Yippi...Pity Ryan..He had to get most of the ball while we were playing. I think this is the second time coach smash while playing with us.He seldom smash..Just lob and drop only.

This will be the end of my post. Hopefully we can still win coach and ryan tomorrow as it will be their return match.

See ya...