Years after years there have always been reports that the line judges and referees in this tournament are big issues. When home players are in action, the verdict always in favour of them. It happens in other countries too, but from what I read there's nothing like Korea Open. I remember the last Asian Games where Taufik Hidayat refused to play in the middle of the game after line judges make repeated false calls in favour of Shon. Only after a hard lobbying from the organiser who didn't want to ruin the game's reputation, then Taufik finally continued the game.....after more than 4 hours delay. Hope this year isn't the same........
Indeed... I remember the Korea Open finals last year... especially in the game between Kenneth Jonassen and Park Tae Sang in the mens singles final, even such a sporting and composed player like Jonassen was infuriated by the numerous outrageous line calls in favor of his Korean opponent. He had an understandable outburst in the middle of the game and after that, the line judges were slightly more cautious wtih their calls--on a few shots, they first made incorrect calls in favour of Park, and upon seeing the expression on Jonassen's face, quickly changed the call! hope this doesn't happen again..it really undermines the spirit of the game
Korea will never change....forever of doing that............nt only in badminton... they are just so so so afraid to lose................
i think it already happen alot of times..... n yup i agree with silvia, it's not only in badminton.... the world cup (soccer) a couple of yrs back was also the same.... but i was wondering.... if they r so unfair n bias y shld the rest of the players play in korea??? they'll never get their fair share of judgements n scores... it's like wasting of time n energy juz some of my 2¢ views
why?? the answer's easy : it's a 5* tournament and there are lot's of world ranking points to gain! even Taufik is playing in Korea... (normal, he needs points!)
yah.... but the game is obviously in favour to their korean players.... tat's y i say the other players r not getting their fair share of judgement n scores
