No, I wasn't hooked to the badminton cup held by Indonesia because of the suave Korean youngster Lee Yong Dae, but the 19 year old showed his experience in beating China in the doubles and got my adrenalin rush flowing.
At first, I tuned in to Sopcast with the hope of watching Roma make a final push for the Italian Seria A title, but when I saw the match up of the Koreans against Chinese, I decided to stay at the channel and watch. Gosh, the reflexes by the players were fantastic.
The chinese were strong and tall, and were heading for the victory in the first set when the shorter Koreans kept their hopes alive by going into deuces. And imagine the match was kept "deucing" until the score was 25-25. And all these while the advantage in the deuces went to China. They just could not break the Koreans down with the vital point. Tides turned to the Korean side and the moment they had the advantage, they went on to defeat the China side in the first set. And the 2nd set, it was Korean all the way.
Wow.. long time never play badminton, and as much as I know competitive badminton can be boring (if it's one-sided, and usually it is), I think it's never so when you have met your match in an opponent.


Lee yong Dae with a fan

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