England's Robert Blair, left and Anthony Clarke celebrate after beating Lars Paaske and Jonas Rasmussen of Denmark during a men's semi-final match at the World Championship Badminton tournament in Madrid, Saturday Sept. 23, 2006. Blair and Clarke won the match 23-21, 17-21, 21-17.
Sui Huang and Gao Ling of China, celebrate after winning the women's doubles final 23-21, 21-9 against Zhang Yawen and Wei Yili
England's Anthony Clarke and Donna Kellogg beat Kien Keat Koo and Pei Tyy Wong of Malaysia in a mixed doubles semi-final match at the World Championship Badminton tournament in Madrid, Saturday Sept. 23, 2006. Kellogg and Clarke won the match 21-14, 21-12.
Yun Cai and team mate Haifeng Fu beat Denmark's Jens Eriksen and Martin Lundgaard Hansen 23-21, 21-16 during a men's doubles semi-final at the World Championship
Xie Xinfang celebrates victory over Huaiwen Xu of Germany after their women's singles semi-final match at the World Badminton Championships
Chunial Bao beat Hyun Li Lee of South Korea during a men's semi-final match at the World Championship Badminton tournament in Madrid, Saturday Sept. 23, 2006. Bao won the match 21-15, 21-19.
England's Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms play against Sudket Prapakamol and Sarelee Thoungthongkam of Thailand during a semi-final mixed doubles match at the World Championship Badminton tournament in Madrid, Saturday Sept. 23, 2006. Robertoson and Emms won the match 21-18, 17-21, 25-23. Poor sudket and saralee, lost in a very close match. Sorry, no pics of the thai xd team.
Ning Zhang of China celebrates after beating German player Petra Overzier in the semi-final women's singles match at the World Championship Badminton tournament in Madrid, Saturday Sept. 23, 2006. Zhang won the match 21-19, 21-11
The only people who don't go crazy when they win are the chinese WS and WD. THey are just too use to winning it seems..
nice pictures! Seems Robertson is better than last year,haha. Still remember after last year some of us suggest Emms change her partner. Cons to Robertson & Emms!
cooler!!! Thank you so much for these lovely pics, I like LD's last 1!!! BBC stopped viewing when they were just about to do the WD ceremony!!!
robertson always get tired quite fast. by the 3rd set he was sluggish already....i thought the thai pair would win
Here is some pics from GETTY IMAGES site: http://editorial.gettyimages.com/so...|badminton|2233391784121335|0|0|0|0&p=2&tag=1
More pictures of the semi finals from Sina.com http://sports.sina.com.cn/z/bad2006/photo/32979/index.shtml