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Camilla upsets Mia on her worst day
September 19, 2000 - Source : IBF
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Broken and in tears, the Atlanta silver medallist just walked away, leaving all the press behind.
“Something was wrong with her today. She didn’t fight like she usually does. She was quite nervous. She never played like this before. I heard her breathing was very hard. I feel a bit sorry for her that she’d been through such difficult times,” Martin said.
So far with all her matches, Martin felt good. “The surroundings were very good. With Mia actually I expected a difficult match because we’ve had difficult matches so many times before. We know each other and know what to do,” Martin added.
The two gold medal favourites have now passed the halfway stage. In men’s singles Peter Gade from Denmark to avenged his loss in the World Championships to Fung Permadi from Chinese Taipei by winning the match, 15-8, 15-7.
“Fung is not easy prey for me. He has a very good defence. It’s good for my preparation before I play Mainaky because he is a very tough player,” Gade said. Permadi admitted he couldn’t match the rhythm of the game. “I think I was getting slower because of my age. I couldn’t match his speed,” he said. Marleve Mainaky met a very easy match against the Korean Hwang Sun-ho, which he won 15-5, 15-3. The stylish player took the opportunity to try out a wide range of strokes.
Taufik Hidayat, the young star from Indonesia had to struggle before he beat his long-time enemy, Ong Ewe Hock from Malaysia. In the two first games, Hidayat and Ong exchanged tricky shots to try andup the court. At the end of the first game, Hidayat finished the game by 15-8. In the second set, Ewe Hock produced more smashes combined with strangled-netting. He moved Hidayat around the court and finished the attack with a sudden smashes.
In the decider, Ewe Hock looked tired and couldn’t level Hidayat’s speed, allowing him to close the match 15-3. “Ewe Hock played very well today. But it was not enough time for him to recover so he was a little bit slower. This was the best that he could do. The key point of Hidayat’s win was his physical condition,” Han Jian, the former Chinese player who now coaches Ewe Hock, said.
Then the Malaysian young gun Wong Choong Hann, who felt more fit and in a good shape also picked his success by beating Kenneth Jonassen from Denmark. “I’m very confident now after my bad performance in the Thomas Cup Finals,” Wong said. He admitted that the preparation for this big event was so good for him. “I didn’t expect that I could go this far, but I’m really confident now,” he added. |
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