Badminton star Minh eyes Taiwan Open final Thanh Nien News 29 August, 2009 By Nhut Quang The third-seeded Vietnamese, ranked 10th in the world, played confidently to beat the world’s 84th Indonesian 21-19 in the first set. However, Sugiarto fought back fiercely and won the second set by the same margin to be on equal terms with Minh. In the decider, Vietnam’s number one cruised to a 21-4 victory while the Indonesian looked exhausted. Winning a semis berth like last year means Minh has reached his goal to remain in the world’s top ten. However, now Minh is looking forward to wining a berth in the final match as his opponent in the semis will be the 15th seed Malaysian Muhammad Hafiz Hashm, 19 places below Minh. Yet the world’s 29th Malaysian may not be an easy rival as he upset the second seed and world number eight South Korean Sung Hwan Park in straight sets in the third round and swept aside the eighth seed and world number 19 Indonesian Andre Kurniawan Tedjono in the quarters Friday. (Picture shows Vietnam’s badminton star Nguyen Tien Minh defeated Indonesian Tommy Sugiarto 2-1 in the YONEX Chinese Taipei Gold Grand Prix quarterfinals Friday and now expects to earn a final berth.)
Just want to comment on this.. ..a soon-to-be-uncle Taufik lost to Uncle Wong??.. ..interesting scoreboard; good to hear Hayom put up some sort of a challenge vs. Taufik. Now, he needs to show more consistency and better results..
yeay you're right we should take serious on XD for the olympics 2012 I think that Goh girl is quite a player
I remember her playing with KKK at the ABC in JB last year they beat JJS/LKW in the qualifying round she's quite good at the net I think she's better than NHL in XD
How u campare gly against wkw.........? And xd's male players,....cps, twk, latif.....? i think cps is quite consistant in producing results........
for sure WKW is a good player but not with razif as her partner she should be partnered with TWK instead my mates and I love CPS and he should be given more tournament with GLY I love to see them at the Olympics 2012
waiting for vivan,ng hui ern and lai pei jing rise up from the surface nhe need another break through if not,wont go far
For my opinion, this three younger XD pairs have the opportunities to shine if the coaches send them to more tournament esp SS: 1) Chan Peng Sung/Goh Liu Ying (My #1 choice) 2) Ong Jian Gou/Sook Chin Chong (#2 choice) 3) Mohd Razif Abd Latif/Woon Khe Wei (#3 choice) For Koo Kien Keat/ Ng Hui Lin, my advice to KKK is to concentrate on MD only. NHL can find another partner. Others, do not see any improvement yet...
actually,if not wkw injured her ankle,this three pair is on same level ng hui lin face the obstacle now,breakthrough or
Why not NHL concentrate on WD only? From the result of CT open, I think she & her partner can go far. Almost beat GL/WYL. We needs a good back-up WD too.
NHL's focus is supposed to be XD. She is WJC in XD after all & results in XD at senior level is better than WD. Except for seniors WPT/CEH, the youngsters concentration is on XD, WD is only part-time, for team event purposes (Uber, Sudirman).
Now I'm understand. So she should concentrate more on XD. For the moment, the world ranking of her & KKK is quiet good (#18). Hope that they can win some SS @ GP Gold tournament soon...
Hmmm....our 'moderator...' George is trying to brig us back to the thread's topic.....dont off topic... just kidding, george!
the explanation from kak helang is quite reasonable the truth is,mas never have 2 good enough wd player to create some wave in wd,so far only wong/chin have this ability. the other female double player we saw(malaysian of course)didnt have the enough skill/ability,patnering each other might not bear any fruit so that it is wise for them to patner with male double player in xd,those male double player can cover up for them. however,the wd department after 2 years might be the deepest in malaysia badminton history so far as i know. the player is improving,not significantly but just give them some time,most of them only 20/21,sabrina chong is the oldest among the junior
