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Chong Wei kerja keras

JUARA bertahan Terbuka Korea, Datuk Lee Chong Wei (gambar) memerlukan masa hampir sejam untuk melangkah ke pusingan kedua manakala Wong Mew Choo hanya beraksi 36 minit.
Chong Wei diakui mendapat undian sukar di kejohanan Siri Super Premier pertama di Seoul, berdepan pemain Denmark, Jan O Jorgensen di pusingan pertama.

Chong Wei menang set pertama 21-9 gagal mengekalkan rentak sama di set kedua membolehkan Jorgensen bangkit menang 21-18 untuk mengheret perlawanan ke set penentuan.
Kedua-dua pemain saling mengejar di set ketiga, namun Chong Wei mula menjarak diri sebaik mencecah mata ke-14 untuk menang 21-16. Di pusingan kedua hari ini, jaguh negara itu akan berdepan sama ada Park Sung Hwan dari Korea atau Przemyslaw Wacha dari Poland.

Dalam pada itu Mew Choo hanya dipaksa berkerja keras pada set pertama oleh pemain kelayakan dari China, Lie Xin.

Kedudukan terikat sehingga 18-18 tapi Mew Choo mula mengorak langkah menamatkan hasrat pemain muda itu dengan 21-18.

Di set kedua, Mew Choo lebih yakin dan menang 21- 15 untuk berdepan lawan yang menewaskannya minggu lalu di Terbuka Malaysia, Wang Xin.

Pada pertemuan minggu lalu, Mew Choo berjaya mengheret lawan ke permainan rubber set dan ratu badminton negara itu pastinya bertambah yakin pada pertemuan kali ini.

Turut mara Fairuzizuan Tazari-Ong Soon Hock yang hampir dikejutkan beregu Jerman, Ingo Kindervater-Johannes Schoettler.

Aksi di Korea sentiasa memberi kesukaran kepada pemain ternama Asia kerana suhunya yang sejuk ketika ini menyebabkan pergerakan bulu tangkis agak perlahan.

Gandingan negara yang dalam proses merebut tempat ke Olimpik London 2012 itu menang 21-13 pada set pertama tapi gagal menyudahkan lebih awal dalam set kedua apabila Kindervater-Schoettler menang 22-20. Begitupun mereka bangkit pada set ketiga menang 21-18 untuk berdepan Hong Wei-Shen Ye (China)-Michael Fuchs-Oliver Roth (Jerman).

Begitupun, Muhd Hafiz Hashim yang meminta meninggalkan Persatuan Badminton Malaysia (BAM) minggu lalu gagal memberi hadiah terbaik pada penampilan terakhir di bawah naungan persatuan apabila sekali lagi kandas di pusingan pertama.

Kali ini dia tunduk kepada pemain Jerman, Marc Zweibler 21-16, 21-13 dalam masa hanya 35 minit. Kekalahan di tangan Zwiebler ini menjadikan kedua-dua pemain kini mempunyai rekod pertemuan seimbang, masing-masing menang dua perlawanan.

Beregu pelapis, Goh Wei Shem-Teo Kok Siang yang berada di ranking ke-23 dunia gagal melepasi cabaran pemain ranking ke-56 dunia dari China, Qiu Zihan-Liu Xiaolong 13-21, 18-21.


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