Another powerful smash from Yuli to level again at 7-all. But Yuli then hit out and another poor net return gave K a chance to smash 10-7 to lead. Yuli smashed and won another from net play 9-10. Yuli plays quite well at the net and not it is 10-all.
The exchanges are now fast a furious and Kozai has the better outcome leading 11-10 at the interval. Good backhand shots from both but Yuli won a smah in the end 11-12. K won another point 13-11.
K hit long and out and with more power led 14-12. Yuli forced Z to make 2 errors and then smashed to lead for the first time 16-14.
A beautiful cross-court low defence coupled with another strong smash gave Z the lead 18-16. Yuli hit out, Z smashed in 20-17 now. Yuli was unable to return a backhand flick from Z who set it up with a tight net return. So Kozai won G1 21-17. Will Yuli be able to make a comeback?
Y 9-6 Y gave away 2 errors Y 10-7 Y deceived Z with a clear Y 11-8 Y played good clear to Z's backhand Interval
Yuli allowed K to catch up with many points. Y 11-9 K attacked Y 11-all Y net mistake Y 13-11 K made 2 errors Y 15-11 Y smashed
Y 15-13 net fault by Y Y 15-14 K pounced for kill Y 15-15 Y hit out baseline Y 15-16 Y hit wide Y 16-16 Y smash
Yuli made the mistake to allow K to turn the tables when he was leading. Final score 23-21 in Kozai's favour. Yuli wasted a good opportunity at the net when he smashed into it. Kozai sets up nicely for his powerful smashes. Yuli had to defend most of the time and the aggressor Kozai took advantage. Kozai became the new MS champion and Yuli did not capitalize on his lead in the G2.
SIN v MAS in XD Bawa/Vanessa v Razif/Alicia S 3-3 S 4-3 Bawa smash S 6-3 Net error S 6-4 S hit wide S 6-6 V hit into net S 7-6 Bawa smah
A see-saw battle. S 8-9 net error S 8-11 unforced error from SIN S 9-11 net winner S 10-13 more from SIN
S 16-17 good smash from V S 17-18 Bawa smash S 17-19 Razif smash at net S 18-19 S 18-20 Razif smashed again S 19-20 V save point S 20-20 Alicia hits wide
will try to explain why I am not disappointed tomorow if i free and for sure,i DONT represent malaysia fans
S 21-20 V forced an error from Alicia S 22-21 A very close game. S 23-21 Alicia misjudged a baseline shot. Game 1 to SIN 23-21.
A very exciting first game. S 1-1 MAS hits wide S 1-1 Bawa smashed into Razif S 2-2 Alicia won from V S 3-2 Bawa smash S 3-3 Bawa smashed into net S 4-3 V wins smash S 5-3 V wins net block from Razif S 5-4 Misjudgement S 6-4 V smash S 7-5 Alicia misjudged S 8-5 Bawa smash
MAS recovered a point S 8-6 SIN miscommunication S 9-6 Bawa smash S 9-7 poor serve from V S 10-8 S 11-8 SIN attacks (Interval) A very interesting and exciting game so far
