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'Lebih bagus undian sukar'


Koo Kien Keat (kiri) dan Tan Boon Heong bakal berdepan dengan laluan sukar dalam All England.


KUALA LUMPUR - Kelekaan yang sering ditunjukkan pasangan utama negara, Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong setiap kali mendapat undian mudah, membuatkan ketua jurulatih beregu kebangsaan, Rexy Mainaky lebih senang anak didiknya itu menerima undian sukar pada kejohanan All England, bulan depan.
Beregu No. 5 dunia itu diletak dalam 'undian maut' pada kejohanan 8-13 Mac ini, apabila berada dalam kelompok bersama juara Olimpik, Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan, juara dunia, Fu Haifeng-Cai Yun serta pasangan yang mengalahkan mereka dalam semua empat pertemuan terakhir, Ko Sung Hyun-Yoo Yeon Seong dari Korea Selatan pada kejohanan di Birmingham pada 8-13 Mac ini.

Bermakna, Kien Keat-Boon Heong berpotensi menentang beregu handalan Indonesia, Markis-Hendra di suku akhir dan jika mara ke separuh akhir, pasangan handalan China, Haifeng-Cai Yun atau Sung Hyun-Yeon Seong pula menanti di separuh akhir.
"Semua pemain kalau boleh tidak mahu menerima undian yang sukar, tetapi untuk Koo Kien Keat dan Tan Boon Heong, saya rasa mereka boleh memberi cabaran yang lebih baik jika awalnya bertemu lawan yang sukar.

"Mereka selalu tersingkir awal kalau bertemu lawan yang mudah, mungkin kerana leka atau mengambil ringan cabaran beregu yang dirasakan tidak kuat. Tetapi jika dari awal mereka sedar terpaksa berdepan pasangan yang kuat, mereka lebih berwaspada dan memberikan 100 peratus,'' kata Rexy.

Rexy turut menjelaskan, beliau sebenarnya lebih bimbang jika pasangan negara itu terpaksa menentang beregu No. 1 dunia, Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen yang dianggap sebagai beregu paling konsisten ketika ini.
Malah, katanya, beregu No. 2 Denmark, Mads Conrad-Petersen- Jonas Rasmussen juga lebih berbahaya dan konsisten jika dibandingkan pasangan dari Asia seperti Kien Keat-Boon Heong, Markis-Kido, Haifeng-Cai Yun atau Sung Hyun-Yeon Seong.

"Jika anda tanya saya siapakah beregu terbaik dunia ketika ini, sudah tentu Boe dan Mogensen. Mereka ini lebih bahaya dari Haifeng-Cai Yun, Markis-Kido atau Lee Yong Dae-Jung Jae Sung (Kor). Mereka amat konsisten, dan jika kalah sekalipun tidak kalah kepada lawan yang mudah, selain kalah dengan keputusan yang tipis.

"Sung Hyun-Yeon Seong memang memiliki kelebihan ke atas pasangan kita, tetapi mereka juga tidak konsisten, malah lebih lemah kalau hendak dibandingkan dengan Yong Dae dan Jae Sung. Jadi, saya sebenarnya melihat lebih baik Kien Keat-Boon Heong berada dalam undian kelompok bawah daripada undian sebelah atas bersama Boe-Mogensen atau Yong Dae-Jae Sung,'' ujar Rexy.
Bagaimanapun Rexy percaya, Kien Keat-Boon Heong sudah dipersiapkan untuk berdepan mana-mana lawan.

Selain Kien Keat-Boon Heong, cabaran Malaysia pada kejohanan tertua dunia yang menawarkan AS$350,000 (RM1.1 juta) itu turut dipikul oleh Mohd. Fairuzizuan Tazari-Ong Soon Hock, Mak Hee Chun-Tan Wee Kiong dan Gan Teik Chai-Tan Bin Shen, manakala pasangan Mohd. Zakry Latif-Hoon Thien How dan Chan Peng Soon-Lim Khim Wah beraksi dari pusingan kelayakan.


Oleh Norzie Mohd. Khasbi
norzie.khasbi@utusan.com.my

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