Hong Kong Open 2007 : Day 7 (Dec 2nd) Final

That's good news....more good badminton coming our way....and more live telecast.....:):):)

Btw, Andrew Sams (Astro commentator) said LCW is from Penang :confused:........
YEs . LCW is Penangties. ;) Actually not from the island , but hailed from a small town called BERAPIT in Bkt Mertajam
 
MD:
Tony/Candra vs Kido/Setiawan: TONYG and CANDRA can and will win it. They have been very impressive playing against TAN/Koo as well as against their INA counterpart during the Semis. Kido/Setiawan may be good, but i dont think they enough Fire to win compare to the Oldies. See if they can prove to Tony/Candra that they are the worthy current World Champs.

Look's like Kido/Hendra HAVE PROVEN that they are the worthy Current World Champions, having beaten the 2005 All England and 2006 World Champions Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun and now the 2000 Sydney Olympics Gold Medallists Tony Gunawan/Candra Wijaya, who are both World Champions themselves with Halim Heryanto and Sigit Budiarto respectively.

Not enough Fire to win :eek:???
They had 16 smashes compared to 12 for Tony/Candra in today's Final.
They had 16 smashes compared to 7 for Fu/Cai in yesterday's Semi-Final.

Add the 20 odds smashes for the lesser opponents in the past 3 matches.
 
Not enough Fire to win :eek:???
They had 16 smashes compared to 12 for Tony/Candra in today's Final.
They had 16 smashes compared to 7 for Fu/Cai in yesterday's Semi-Final.

Add the 20 odds smashes for the lesser opponents in the past 3 matches.

MK/HS is a killing machine too :D :D
 
MD:
Tony/Candra vs Kido/Setiawan, Difficult to say who's gonna win this one, last time they met, the grand old men were thrashed quite significantly. But with added belief, Kido/Setiawan may just find the going tough, unless the match drags on to 3 games.

abedeng's comments are always the fairest :) Indeed, Kido/Hendra did find the going slightly tougher today than yesterday, esp in the second set when they were in the less favoured court :cool: Hendra did make a fair number of mistakes and looked a bit hesitant at times. And yes, your prediction went true....the match did go to rubber-set (to the crowds' delight) and Kido/Hendra did manage to establish a healthy 11-5 advantage before returning back to the "nightmare" court.
 
wow chinese threads praising this pair....as much as I love this pair I think Cai and Fu gave it to them for free cos they are like...come on Fu we have more than 4 they only have one so let them have this one...honestly Kido_hendra doesn't know how to kill like Tony-Chandra...tomorrow's match would prove it

Fu/Cai gave it to them for free??? LOL...this must be the funniest comments I have read recently :eek:

Ok....so today's match have proven that they CAN KILL!
 
You didn't see their quarter final game. Although they won, they really struggled. Macau does have other distractions though!

FYI, I DID WATCH the QF game. Yes, the game was littered with errors, but, like what I explained in the other thread, once the World Champion upped their tempo and started to play their fast breaks, the Japanese pair was troubled and it was all over very quickly.

Did u watch the game between Flandy/Vita vs the Hongkong pair ? The scoreline might suggested that they struggled...but in reality, it was more of a practice match :cool:
 
what MK/HS did to FHF/CY was grissly MURDER!!!

That is more like it. It has been a long time since I saw them killing their opponents so quickly. Past few SS have seen them struggling against the lesser pairs, killing them only marginally.

Yesterday, they were up for the match and DID NOT ALLOW the Chinese pair to play the game FROM THE START! That's why the scoreline was kinda surprising to many ppl.
 
FYI, I DID WATCH the QF game. Yes, the game was littered with errors, but, like what I explained in the other thread, once the World Champion upped their tempo and started to play their fast breaks, the Japanese pair was troubled and it was all over very quickly.

Did u watch the game between Flandy/Vita vs the Hongkong pair ? The scoreline might suggested that they struggled...but in reality, it was more of a practice match :cool:
Sorry, I wasn;t being clear - I was referring to the QF in Macau Open.
 
Sorry, I wasn;t being clear - I was referring to the QF in Macau Open.

Was it even relevant to today's match :rolleyes:? They struggled many times in recent months against many pairs....I am not surprised :cool:

These are the matches they have struggled against recently:
Chinese Taipei Open R16 against Sakamoto/Ikeda -- 21-17 in rubber-set
The above-mentioned match in Macau Open against Gan/Lin -- 23-21 in rubber-set
Denmark Open R16 against Guo/Xie -- 21-19 in rubber-set
French Open R16 against Logosz/Mateusiak -- 21-18 in rubber-set
China Open QF against Eriksen/Hansen -- 21-16 in rubber-set

What was more relevant was the way they killed off Fu/Cai's challenge so efficiently yesterday and yet many ppl seemed to have disregarded that match and blamed Fu/Cai's indifferent form to a number of excuses :mad:
 
That is more like it. It has been a long time since I saw them killing their opponents so quickly. Past few SS have seen them struggling against the lesser pairs, killing them only marginally.

Yesterday, they were up for the match and DID NOT ALLOW the Chinese pair to play the game FROM THE START! That's why the scoreline was kinda surprising to many ppl.

Badmania, congrats again to your heros. Thought you wouldnt come in here tonite, busy celebrating with your favourite MD players. :D

And yes, looks like in HK Open, Kdio/Setiawan decided to really really go out, it's the last SS of year. In my humble opinion, they even played better than WC Semis & Finals cos Tony & Chandra were all over the court.

The 2 veterans improved much too.
 
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Badmania, congrats again to your heros. Thought you wouldnt come in here tonite, busy celebrating with your favourite MD players. :D

And yes, looks like in HK Open, Kdio/Setiawan decided to really really go out, it's the last SS of year. In my humble opinion, they even played better than WC Semis & Finals cos Tony & Chandra were all over.

The 2 veterans improved much too.

Kido & Setiawan have had the luxury and benefit of watching innumerable matches featuring Tony & Candra... and it's certainly to Tony's and Candra's credit that they could still put up such a stiff fight. :cool:

However, it must be said that the younger Indonesians played their heart out.
They played brilliantly. :)
 
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