i agree about lcw playing the game of his life tonight... he played well, and he fed off the crowd's energy quite efficiently. he knew when to step up, he knew when to coast, and he knew when to hammer lin dan when he saw the latter get buggered by off-calls. he played really intelligently. not many players can do that against lin dan.
hmmm.. so now that LCW has won the open, how does this effect his placing in the world rankings? since he dropped to 8th after SO, what will he be on now? and this goes the same for the other winners, Will Candra/Sigit move to World number 1's?
he has probably taken time to adapt, compare his repertoir of shots today, and at all england, now he has his cross net shots, sharp smashes, etc etc.
Hi, anyone in Singapore record down today match? Hope can borrom from you... too bad for me did not apply SCV.. PM me.. thx in advance...
Thanks for your impartial view, I think Lee CW took his chances well today. Maybe new technology to help line calls can be intrduced in SO next year?
Thanks for your sincere comment. Winning and losing is part of game , let's look forward to more nail-biting matches in the World Championship.
While lin dan was walkin to receive the medal, i saw him throw a chair aside when it was in his way. He probably was disappointed...
Lee Chong Wei is now rank No $ in the world. Just slightly behind Peter Gade. His point is 25575.32 + 42000 = 29775.32 . Go chong wei . I will pray for u to win the world championship.
Lin dan wasnt happy with his performance. But i have to salute Lee chong Wei . He has beaten the best players so far in this Open like Taufik , Bao and now Lin Dan.
You are absolutely right.The line call were all made in fairness.If there any bad calls at all,it wasn't called to give lcw an unfair advantage.On the other hand lin was trying to be the linesman.His cockiness is one of the reason he lost to lcw.But there are so many good points why lcw wins tonight.He fought as hard as he could.He refused to give when he was trailing.He has good skills.In fact everyone should be proud of this young talent from Malaysian for cracking the Great Wall of China.It's good for badminton.Nobody can be invicible all the time.When you lose,lose sportingly.
Juz a couple of comments after running thru this thread. I've watched the MS finals 1st game only (cos i haf to go for an appt, quite reluctantly) n bad line calls haf oredi been called twice in the 1st game. Not to mention the others as stated by u guys here in the following 2nd n 3rd games. Personally, i haf no preference as to who shld win, but i think it's relatively unfair to Lin Dan. All this affects a player's emotions n mentality in a game, no matter how strong a player is mentally. futhermore, it's home ground to Lee... Hence, the result of this MS is 'not' that convincing, not that i think Lin Dan is unbeatable. But to be beaten under this type of situation... As for this MO, i haf a couple of comments. Talking abt using technology to judge line calls, they are still using manual scoring wif ppl sitting next to number plates to record the scores! Couple of mistakes in scoring i noticed during the Semi's !! The worst part of the event is... THE FLOOR MAT !!! It keeps coming off!! Imagine Fu slipped and fell bcos of that yesterday! That posed as a threat in the game as players were sort of 'scared' of going near that corner. Even today, Chen Qiqiu also fell for the trap! Wat preparation work is that for a 4* event?! Rather disappointing...
Too bad for the line calls and floor matts coming off. Too bad it came off during televised matches. I know and saw some 5* to 6* tournaments having the Floor matt coming off. Anyway its a learning process for every organisers. Of course Msian open is not as good as Spore Open event. I hope Msian Organisers can learn from the recently concluded Aviva Open and also learn more from the upcoming WCs.
