BADMINTON Tenacity and teamwork not enough to overcome mighty China IT HAS been a week of South Korean successes in the Malaysian capital here. Its Thomas Cup team stormed to three group victories, two of them - over Malaysia and Denmark - surprise wins, the Uber Cup side made it to the semis and its junior hockey boys clinched the Asia Cup last Sunday. But the Korean Thomas Cup celebrations should end today, in the crunch semi-final match against...
SOUTH KOREAN singles coach Sung Han-kook has predicted his boys will bounce back from their disappointing performances against Malaysia.The Korean singles players lost all three matches on Monday as Malaysia won the first Test 4-1 to take a 1-0 lead in the Invitational Badminton Challenge. The second Test will be played in Kota Baru today with the final test in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.The Koreans came into the match in a condfident mood with their manager Kim Jung-soo predicting his...
A WELCOME addition.That is Misbun Sidek's (pic) response to the BA of Malaysia decision to hire Li Mao of China as a singles coach. Rather than feel threatened, Misbun welcomes the former South Korean singles coach's appointment and is, despite speculation that he could walk away from BAM, keen on continuing what he has started since being hired as national singles chief coach in 2003."I don't feel threatened at all by Li...
South Koreans bounce back in doubles [tennis] Thai team captain Chanachai Srichaphan vowed the Kingdom would bounce back and win the tie against South Korea in today’s reverse singles after losing yesterday’s doubles rubber at the Hua Mark Indoor Stadium.The father of world No 13 Paradorn is confident his son and Thai No 2 Danai Udomchoke will have no problem taking care of Kim Dong-hyun and Chung Hee-seok today for a 4-1 win over the visitors.After losing...