Maybank Malaysia International Youth U19 Badminton Championships 2013: 10~15 Sep 2013
Just went through the results of the Malaysian May Bank International U 19 championship. There were walkovers in two all-Korean doubles finals. One of the boys involved who was down to play in the first doubles match of the day went on to clinch the boy's single title beating Malaysia's STZ in the process
All hell would have broken through in this forum if the walkovers involved Chinese players.
Here is the link.
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=15E26858-05A1-49D7-99FC-6C0D0877D74F
Maybank Malaysia International Youth U19 Badminton Championships 2013
Last updated:
Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:29 PM
Badminton Association of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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[TD]Starting at 12:00 PM[/TD]
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XD [/TD]
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Walkover[/TD]
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[TD]21-8 10-21 22-20[/TD]
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[TD="align: right"]0:52[/TD]
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[TD]21-17 21-19[/TD]
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[TD="align: right"]0:33[/TD]
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[TD]13-21 21-19 21-14[/TD]
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[TD="align: right"]0:56[/TD]
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Face it! The Korean move is quite understandable although it won't pass the "sportiveness litmus test" impeccably.
And to not be a hypocrite, I gonna say that if I were the Korean Team Manager, I would have done the same arrangement precisely.
Btw the Korean Team dominated the finals, put 7 finalists, bagged 4 trophies, just HE Bingjiao stood in their ways there to deny the cleansweep in a close match.