Skip to main content

Skuad badminton kecundang

MALAYSIA berdepan laluan sukar pada suku akhir kejohanan badminton Piala Sudirman apabila sekadar muncul naib juara Kumpulan 1B selepas tewas kepada Indonesia 3-2 dalam perlawanan kedua peringkat kumpulan di Qindao, China, malam tadi.

Keputusan itu sekali gus menyaksikan Malaysia yang menewaskan Russia 4-1 pada perlawanan pertama, terpaksa melalui satu lagi undian di kalangan naib juara setiap kumpulan dan kemungkinan berdepan pasukan pilihan sama ada Korea Selatan atau juara bertahan China.
Seperti dijangka, perseorangan dan beregu lelaki negara meraih kemenangan untuk Malaysia malam tadi, namun Indonesia bangkit menyamakan kedudukan apabila menguasai perseorangan dan beregu wanita, sebelum memastikan mata kemenangan dalam acara beregu campuran.

Pasangan Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong yang menjadi wakil pertama negara turun ke gelanggang nyata tidak menghampakan apabila menewaskan pasangan Indonesia, Yulianto Alven-Mohammad Ahsan 21-15, 21-17 dalam masa 31 minit tetapi Indonesia menyamakan kedudukan menerusi perseorangan wanita, Adriyanti Firdasari yang menewaskan Lydia Cheah 21-8, 21-12.

Malaysia kembali di depan apabila Lee Chong Wei memungut mata kedua selepas mudah menewaskan pemain kurang ternama Dionysius Hayom 21-8, 21-8.

Skuad negara yang berharap mencuri mata menerusi pasangan beregu wanita, Wong Pei Tty-Chin Eei Hui tidak kesampaian apabila tewas kepada gandingan Greysia Polii-Meiliana Jauhari, 23-21, 21-14 untuk Indonesia kembali mengikat kedudukan 2-2.

Gandingan beregu campuran, Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying yang menjadi sandaran mencari mata kemenangan gagal melaksanakan tugas apabila tewas kepada Fran Kurniawan-Pia Zebadiah 21-18, 21-15 untuk membolehkan Indonesia yang menundukkan Russia 4-1 Ahad lalu, bergelar juara Kumpulan 1B.




Berita Harian

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Malaysian junior athletes are just too ‘lembik’

Saya setuju. We are working on more coaches! “ @ManOlimpik : Malaysian junior athletes are just too ‘lembik’ http://t.co/7D7wmHWaNy ” — Khairy Jamaluddin (@Khairykj) June 10, 2014 The benchmark. Can our junior athletes train as hard as Malaysia's world No.1 badminton player, Lee Chong Wei? “IT IS okay lah. The training is not too bad lah. I will try lah … Wah, so hard lah today.” These are some of the common statements I hear from our juniors nowadays. It is not only in badminton. It is the easy-going, laid-back attitude and lack of competitiveness at grassroots level that we have problems producing quality players. I have travelled quite a bit. After ending my decade-long career with the national team, I went to play in the league in Europe. It’s different there. The European athletes know what they want. And they do it with real focus. Even the young ones possess admirable self-control and show a high level of commitment. During my time in the ...
12 comments
Read more

Organising Major Sports Events Can Inspire Sports Culture Among The People - Khairy

PUTRAJAYA, June 5 (Bernama) -- Organising major sports events can help inspire sports culture among the people and ensure a healthy lifestyle said Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. Khairy said the Tour of Malaysia cycling race organised since 1963, for example, can encourage more people to take the sport in a more competitive way or just for recreation purposes. "A study carried out by a world renown medical journal, The Lancet, revealed that 61 percent of adults in Malaysia do not engage themselves in active sports. "A study by the Health Ministry revealed that only 25 percent of Malaysians exercise," he said in his speech when launching the 2013 Tour of Malaysia (Jelajah Malaysia) at the Youth and Sports Ministry, here, Wednesday. "Cycling, though not as popular here as in countries like Denmark, the activity is becoming popular among the people as can be seen through an increase in sale of bicycles for recreation," he sa...
Post a Comment
Read more

Badminton: Fans rooting for all-Malaysian semis

Reports: RAJES PAUL KUALA LUMPUR: The home fans will be rooting for an all-Malaysian men’s singles semi-final between Lee Chong Wei and Liew Daren. But Chong Wei is more fancied to advance than Daren in quarter-final matches against Indonesian Simon Santoso and Dane Peter Gade-Christensen respectively at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil today. Yesterday, Chong Wei defeated Vietnamese Nguyen Tien Minh 21-9, 18-21, 21-7 in a second-round match that saw the world number one struggling to adapt to the draught in the stadium in the second game. And Daren continued a fairy tale run in his home Open, blowing away a toothless Hsueh Hsuan-yi of Taiwan 21-14, 21-12. Although Choong Wei had to slog for the win over Tien Minh, the top seed and defending champion felt that he was playing better by the day. “I got off to a good start but found it hard to cope with the draught. I tried to catch up after losing my momentum but that did not happen and I decided to conserve energy for ...
11 comments
Read more