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Bad news again from All-England badminton championships in Birmingham! Our defending champions Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong crashed out of the All-England badminton championships in the first round yesterday, losing to unseeded Japanese pair Shuichi Sakamoto-Shintaro Ikeda. Oh my god! Once again, they lost to the Japanese pair who had defeated them in the World Championships in Kuala Lumpur last year.
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Choong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah and Chan Chong Ming-Chew Choon Eng has moved into the quarter-finals in the Malaysian Open badminton championships 2008. This should be very great news to us, but the celebrations were muted following the shocking exit of defending champions Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil last night. Once again! I really do not understand what happened to them again.

The pair lost in their second round when they met the former world champions Lars Paaske-Jonas Rasmussen of Denmark. Besides, The world number one pair struggled to beat third-ranked Indonesians Hendra Gunawan-Joko Riyadi in their opening match on Wednesday.
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Congratulations to our number 1 woman single, Wong Mew Choo. She really made all of us surprise. The 24-year-old Wong Mew Choo showed that nothing was impossible when she overcame one Chinese player after another to bag her first ever-Open title. She defeated world champion Zhu Lin (in the quarter-finals), Athens Olympic Games winner Zhang Ning (semi-finals) and world number one Xie Xingfang (final). She is not the first time to win world number one Xie Xing Fang.

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I have been not writing about our men’s double heroes Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong after they have disappointed me for quite a long time. But yesterday, they cheered me up with the very great and stunning game in Danish Open title in Odense.

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This is very sad that there is no player able to enter to the Proton-BWF Badminton World Championships 2007 as I had bought the ticket for the finals tomorrow. What a sad day for me yesterday when my favourite duo pair Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong beaten by Japan’s number two pair of Shuichi Sakamoto-Shintaro Ikeda.

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For who are fans of our national single player Lee Chong Wei and double players Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, please make sure you turn on your big TV screen and tone to Astro SuperSport channel at 2PM sharp today (22 July 2007) to watch the finals of the Philippine Open Badminton 2007 in Manila.
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World Badminton Championships is coming to town! Yes, this time Kuala Lumpur is hosting this world class badminton event! So, you badminton fanatics have no reason not to support this event by at least going to watch the matches live!

Remember? We were so excited for this badminton championship that we started to wonder how we can get the tickets. Now, eventually I know how to get the tickets. I must thank yuetmui for leaving the ticketing information in the comment of that post.

Yes, this is how you get the tickets. Contact Ticketpro Malaysia Sdn Bhd at:

D-2-03A, Dataran Glomac,
Jalan SS6/20A, Kelana Jaya
47301 Petaling Jaya
MALAYSIA

Or, if you are not staying in KL, you can use the following:

Ticket Hotline No: +603 7880 4428
Fax No: +603 7880 4478
Email: ticket@ticketpro.com.my

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Our top doubles pair Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong once again unable to perform good in the Sudirman Cup (mixed team world championships). Their inept performance in the Malaysian against China in the Sudirman Cup in Glasgow has made their coach Rexy Mainaky not pleased with them. He decided to pull them out of the Thailand Open next month. Oh, that’s bad news for their fans huh..
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Finally our number 1 single player Lee Chong Wei did it! He finally able to prove to us that he can do it by winning the singles title in the US$250,000 Indonesian Open badminton championships in Jakarta yesterday. What a great news for us! Unfortunately I missed the show yesterday because I had something to do and not at home. I hope I wont miss the replay on Astro later.

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Let me bring you to Istora Senayan in Jakarta today. No, we are not going there to drink tomyam soup or to seek cheap sex, but to watch some sleek badminton actions! Yes, the Djarum Indonesia Open Super Series 2007 has just kicked off in Jakarta yesterday.

You say sad or not, even before I reach there, one of Malaysia’s hope in men’s single, Mohd Hafiz Hashim was sent packing home by Indonesia’s Simon Santoso in the first round only! How could a previous All England champion lost so tamely like that?

Doesn’t matter, let’s see how Malaysia Number 1 single player Lee Chong Wei fare facing Simon Santoso.

If you are working and can’t join me in Jakarta, don’t worry OK. You can watch live scoring online with Visual LiveScore.

Here you can view all the current games and their scores. You can click on each court to see the current game that is being played. You say high tech or not?

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