That's probably ENG's best lineup, with Andrew Smith playing MS1 and Rajiv Ouseph playing MS2. But KOR....what a farce to see Lee Jae Jin and Hwang Ji Man playing singles, whereas all the singles players are now doubles. At least Hong Ji Hoon was the World Junior Champions in 2006 (if I recalled correctly).
Andrew Smith has won 3rd set. England also dont want to meet Indoensia in QF. Imagine LJJ & Hwang playing MS, ha ha
Like INA, Japan figured that the best would be to finish first or third and feed the Netherlands to the sharks...(China) INA would play similarly if they to Japan yesterday.
the question is now whether Malaysia will follow Korea's lead, and will make for an interesting match later.
Just before the Thomas Cup there he was like bla bla...Ina bla bla is like he hates INA or something...he said nothing about Denmark?? Clearly Denmark is not doing too good as well
Sportsmanship?? I found Korea's line-up rather interesting. I remember years ago (some of you young ones may still be playing with your rattle at this point ), if not mistaken, during the 1992 or 1994 Thomas/Uber Cup, Indonesia did the same thing when playing Malaysia in the group match to determine the winner of the group. (In those days, 2 groups with 2 winners from each group qualifing for semis with cross-over, i.e no.2 of one group playing the no.1 of othe other group). Anyway, Indonesia fielded their doubles players as singles and vice versa to lose to Malaysia to avoid playing China. They came under severe criticism and I think at one point, the BWF (then IBF) was seriously considering legal action or defaulting Indonesia (which of course would be funny if they did!). Another example of sportmanship bowing down to the demands of commercial reality (if Indonesia was defaulted in the semis, all the sponsors would be very unhappy). Anyway, in the end, Indonesia got away with it and lost to Malaysia, then they went on to beat South Korea I think in the other semis and met Malaysia in the final and lost anyway! Karma? I guess they still made it to the finals instead of being eliminated in the semis. I was just thinking after that I would have thought something would have been done to prevent this from being repeated in future TU Cups but I guess not! My only 2 cents into this is...to win the Thomas / Uber Cup, you need to be the no.1 team in the world and so doesn't matter who you play, you just got to kick a s s !! Adelina
