They had a very bad start! They seem to have started the second game on better basis with a 4-1 lead for the moment...
I know how difficult it can be, I did some line judging at the European Juniors in Glasgow in 1999. It was good to get in free, but I spent most of the time praying the shuttle wouldn't come near my line! I imagine its even harder at this level. But some of the calls I've seen stick in my mind for being quite obvious ones. I love it on the sky coverage when there's a dodgy call - Gill Clark always just says something like "Well now"!
I saw a few myself yesterday: Geoff Bellingham was quite unhappy with a few calls in his match against Aamir Ghaffar, but they were baselilne calls and I couldn't tell whether they were in or out from where I was. It looked to me like Lee Hyun Il had a shuttle called in that was clearly out against Xia, [edit - the shuttle was landing on Lee's side of the court] and something similar in Wong Choong Hann's match. But I couldn't say whether the calls were biased or mistakes.
I hope that Alven/Luluk will take the 2nd and the 3rd set. They lead 8-3 now. Eriksen/Lundgaard also had a bad start in they 1st set.
If they really had these words, I find this shows very poor fair-play... But it is possible that the journalists made this up...
now I thought we'd cleared that up. The serve was good, the umpires decision was correct, the yellow card probably not, and Lee/Choong need to develop a positive mental attitude [and before the mods jump in, there's some other threads that this discussion should be continued in rathewr than this one] dunno, what did they say. I haven't heard.
The Koreans are fiercer opponents than the english pair though, so it won't be as easy... Anyway, 10-6 for Luluk/Alven in the second game now...
I don't agree on this one, but as you said this has already been discussed in another thread. 13-6 for Luluk/Alven!
daft question, and not to knock the lasses, but.. how can jo wright and ella trip be seeded 8th for this tournament - and donna and gail unseeded. gail and donna are by far a stronger pair. jo and ella are already on the way out - lost the first set to the chinese pair.. 15-9
Yes, I agree. It is a daft question The seedings are based on rankings, and Wright/Tripp are simply ranked higher. If the seedings were based on current strength, Du/Yu would definitely have been seeded (something like 4th or 5th).
