Badminton - Thomas Cup

China has just won the Thomas Cup (that's one of the most important tournaments in badminton for the unitiated). They truely deserve it as they outplayed their opponents all the way. The intensity and pace that they play to is truly magnificient. I'm convinced that their success in badminton and table tennis is due to the tremendous reflexes that Chinese have compared to the rest of the world (hey, there must be a reason why they're way ahead of the rest in those two sports)

As a Malaysian, I support the Malaysian Team of course and was greatly disappointed when they lost to China in the semi-finals. The semi-finals was a tight match. We lost narrowly (3-2) to undoubtedly the best badminton-playing nation at the moment. (for the record, China has the 1st, 3rd, and 4th ranked singles players in the world at the moment).

Congratulations to China on this success. I'm glad they won this amidst the earthquake disaster back home. At least this brings some cheer to the people of China.

My take on the 5 matches between M'sia and China in my next post.