jwala & diju v have withdrawn due to thr recurrence of a back injury for diju which he aggrevated during the QF match at the worlds. jwala aslo withdrew from the WD much to the dissapointment of her young partner A Ponnappa as she didnt thik it worthwhle making the trip for just one event.. they hope to be part of the chinese taipei event
Or he is just hard working.....playing badminton is his job now.....so just keep working.... Or its too late for him to withdraw...... I really admired him.....he's like '打不死的蟑螂'....with 'never say die' attitude...
++ If LCW had withdrawn after draw made, need to pay the penalty fee (USD 200 right?). THen will have more criticism.
Datuk is a professional player...another US$15K contribution to the kitty never hurts, esp with the biggest threat LD missing in action. BTW, US$15K is about RM50K, now how many MAS citizen, professional engineer or what not included, can make that in a year, never mind in less than 1 week, also get to maintain WR1 is another RM45K per quarter freebie $$$ from BAM. Crazy to even think about withdrawing
Oops! The organizer is that cheap, eh?...now, what's the payout for first to QF crashers, that would be nitto then, the losers would have to hitchhike home On second thought, I forgot about this CJ chap, what's this fella doing here anyway? He should withdraw I have to edit to say "Datuk could add $8K to his retirement kitty" cos' there is no guarantee he will get past CJ.
From the history, CJ has not won any tourney without LD yet...it seems CJ has a burden if he is alone in tournament...lets see how he will prove to us this time..I am sure he will reach final to face LCW...
Assuming Datuk will beat TH (I think Datuk will), I agree with you that they will meet in the final. I recall Datuk beat CJ in one SS, that was so close and CJ made a huge mistake smashing the birdie out at the net...that game was CJ to lose. I would say it will be 50/50 this time, who's has the better form and importantly, the nerve...one player bomb in WC due to nerve, the other coming of WC as a finalist...interesting.
Last time, LCW beat CJ in 2 sets during INA Open.... ..TH is enjoying himself there with his bunch of friends there..amazing he is still be able to progress to SF...someone told me that he has not seen TH's play so well lately when he was up against DU Peng Yu..so fluid and flawess
It would be quite disastrous if TH lost to DPY again. I guess TH tried hard to "revenge" -- just like LCW did in Malaysian GP Gold final. Do you think the two old guys (TH and WCH) will get slaughtered by their in-prime opponents?
I think the head-2-head between LCW and CJ is something like 6:1 or 7:1. The only time CJ won is 08AE SF.
..Lets see...I know TH has more fun in Macau than India.... I think LCW will win and WCH may get whacked by CJ...
It's kind of a sad thing to watch WCH play nowadays... He always tries so hard, so concentrated, yet he has become just too slow to threat those young guns...
