Grace Cheah is the Umpire. I love her style, and her diction. Clear, crisp and confident. She's a good umpire, too!
I'm watching the finals at home - best view (better than the VIP seats), most comfortable and certainly no smog! Surprised to know you are senior citizen but what sort of qualification. But as a snr also, I support Boonsak too, although Tommy is in great form. Just hope Boonsak can last the distance if it goes to the rubber. Indeed the smog is clearing, now PSI reported at 83, not health threatening. I could now hear someone shouting "IN-DO-NE-SIA" and the clapper responded in support of XD Towi & Natsir.
Boonsak Ponsana, born 22 Feb 1982, is 31 years old and I'm rooting for him because I like his style and as a veteran he's amazing the way he often disposes of the younger men. The other veteran I admire is Hu Yun for the same reasons.
YYS is expressing his confidence in his partner in the best way -he doesn't try to protect her, and allows her to play freely from the back as well.
Mandatory brain-fade from Towi, smashing from the baseline when he wasn't on balance. A little girl leads the cheering for INA in the stadium... cute!
A smash down the line from Towi but an equally fast cross court base return forced Towi to scramble sideways and fell from the impact. Now the score is 16-10 in favour of INA.
An almost afterthought-like backhand smash by Towi was returned to him for a perfect forehand smash leaving YYS stranded.
