Chong Wei takes Korean Open 2010 title…

Today is the final of the first super series of year 2010, the Victor Korea Super Series 2010 Open Badminton Championship. There is only one match involving Malaysian, whom is the world number one player, Lee Chong Wei, in the men single. I must watch to support Malaysia, since I’m Malaysian too.

     

Men single is the last draw in the whole final show, hence it is gonna to start in the late afternoon. Then, felt very free during the whole afternoon, so I did watched some of the other matches too, and one that I found interesting is the men doubles with Lee Yong Dae, Jung Jae Sung (Korea) against Cai Yun, Fu Haifeng (China). Four of them are great players especially Cai Yun and Lee Yong Dae. Korea win this match by 21 – 11, 14 – 21, 21 – 18. It is an exciting match.

The other results are: Women single (Wang Shixian from China beats Sung Ji Hyun from Korea, 21 – 10, 25 – 23)….Women doubles (Cheng Shu, Zhao Yunlei from China beats Fujii Mizuki, Kakiiwa Reika from Japan, 21 – 16, 21 – 15)….Mixed doubles (He Hanbin, Yu Yang from China beats Tao Jiaming, Zhang Yawen from China too, 21 – 15, 21 – 16).

Finally, comes the final match, of men single, between Lee Chong Wei from Malaysia and Peter Gade from Denmark. Peter Gade is the champion of the men single title in Korea Open last year (2009). Unfortunately, he was unable to defend his title. Greatfully, this is the first Korea Open title won by Chong Wei eventhough he had won many tournaments around the world these few years. He beats Gade, 21 – 12, 21 – 11, in two straight games. Great performance by Chong Wei, and by Gade for sometimes too. I’m wondering why Lin Dan from China, the Olympic gold medallist did not compete in this tournament while others do…he will give a good and always-winning fight with Chong Wei. Many supporters were yelling, cheering, supporting Chong Wei, waving the Malaysian flags….I guessed they are the Malaysians studying abroad in Korea. Malaysia’s other best, world number one in men doubles, Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong did not participate. China won three, Korea won one, and Malaysia won one.

I like this website, www.tournamentsoftware.com, it is updated quickly everytime a result is released on those competitions of sports. Eventhough I did not watch the whole final matches, but I can simply knew the full results very fast from that website. The results shown here are obtained from there too as the most reliable source with is in very detail.

Lee Chong Wei started off the year with the first win, in the first super series tournament out of twelve in the whole year. This coming week is the time for Malaysia Open 2010…hopes he can do at his best at that time too! Continue your winning path!

Jungle trekking today…

Usually every Sunday, I will be accompanying my dad for a walk or a jog at Taman Tasik Permaisuri, a large park with a lake in the middle. Usually, I will just jog for a short distance, and then walk for a remaining round, then another whole round again, WALKING…again!! Lol….just watching the scenery and people…and feel the morning breeze…

Today we did not go there, instead, we go for jungle trekking on a hill near my house. The hill is called Monte Bayu, which is now changed to Bukit Bayu. It is not a high hill, but enough for us as the seldom jungle trekkers, which have not much energy and ability to climb further. Going there with my cousin and her friend….went into the jungle, and climbing steep area….exciting at the beginning but tiring at the end…

Beauty of nature…shadow of trees and leaves casted onto the ground…

At first, I thought climbing up would be harder….but then reached until halfway, very exhausted already and gave up…rest a while before climbing down back…there seems to be quite a lot of people jungle-trekking at there. Some are even friendly to inform you not to sit down after feeling exhausted, warn us of danger, and even greet us good morning…and I even saw foreigners there too…

When climbing up…

First time climbing this hill…fun too.,..but becomes food for the mosquitoes…haha….the whole journey took around one and a half hour…now I know the most dangerous and difficult part is when climbing down, when we need to return to the car park area. Looking down at steep angle of the hill really scares people…with the sandy jungle floor that can make you slip easily….there are even ropes at some locations for better safety.

When climbing down…

Tiring…time to rest both of my legs…and online now….this is what comfortable is! Will NOT be planning the next jungle trekking in a near distance of time…