Sony Dwi Kuncoro Won Japan Super Series 2008

Sony Dwi Kuncoro finally won the Japan Super Series 2008. Sony, the badminton player of Indonesia succeed defeating Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in straight set 21-17 and 21-11 in the final. The match didn't take a long. Sony defeated Lee easily in 40 minutes. It seemed because of Lees fatigue after the Beijing Olympics.

With the result, Sony Dwi Kuncoro had revenged the match in Beijing Olympics which he defeated by Lee Chong Wei. In the Japan Super Series 2008 Indonesia had collect two gold medals after Muhammad Rijal andVita Marissa won the gold medal for mixed double in the match before.

Suprising Winning of Rijal and Vita in Japan

All Indonesian final happened in the mixed double final of Japan Super Series 2008. Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir had to face Rijal and Vita who all of the are from Indonesia.

Nova and Lilyana were guessed to be the winner due to of their higher rank, but the match in the court said different thing. Rijal and Vita took the gold medal in 43 minutes with straight set 14-21, 21-15, and 21-19.

Lee Chong Wei Suffer Fatigue in Japan Super Series

Defending champions Lee Chong Wei and Tine Rasmussen struggled into the Japan Open quarter-finals Thursday with the Malaysian world number one complaining of post-Olympics fatigue.

Lee survived a second-game fightback by local hope Sho Sasaki to win 21-7, 22-20 while Denmark's Rasmussen came from behind to beat China's Wang Lin 10-21, 21-11, 21-18.

Lee, who lost last month's Olympic final to China's Lin Dan, had also looked unconvincing in his first-round 25-23, 21-8 win over unfancied Chinese Zhu Weilun.

"I still feel tired as I only took a week off after the Olympics and prepared for this tournament as I wanted to take part in as many events as possible," the 25-year-old.

"I lost my concentration and wound down after an 11-3 lead in the second game. That's why I was overtaken that way."

Lee faces a first ever match-up with China's 150th-ranked Qiu Yanbo in the last eight.

"I may recover from fatigue somewhat in due course. But whether or not I am tired, I want to take one match at a time in a careful manner," he said.

Qiu progressed when fifth-seeded Indonesian Simon Santoso pulled out with back pain when 21-10, 8-6 down. Santoso injured his back in winning last week's Taiwan Open.

In other men's matches, Indonesian second seed Sony Dwi Kuncoro outclassed Sairul Amar Ayob 21-8, 21-7 to face another Malaysian, Muhammad Roslin Hashim, who beat Thailand's Boonsak Ponsana 21-17, 21-15.

Ex-Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat beat Denmark's Jan Jorgensen 21-10, 21-12 to set up a quarter-final with European championship runner-up Joachim Persson, who overcame Tommy Sugiarto 21-14, 21-15.

Rasmussen, the All-England winner and women's second seed, needed 48 minutes to overcome Wang as top-seeded Lu Lan of China made short work of Japan's Kaori Imabeppu 21-7, 21-8.

"I had to work really hard and, maybe, I didn't play too clever," said Rasmussen, 29, whose career has blossomed after winning her first major title here last year.

"I think I was against the (air conditioners') wind in the first game and I didn't get enough length. So Wang could just stand on it and put pressure on me," Rasmussen added.

Rasmussen faces a tough quarter-final against Hong Kong's world silver medallist Wang Chen, who reached the last eight on a walkover against China's Jiang Yanjiao.

"I think it's going to be a 50-50, open-ended match," said the Dane, who has already won three Super Series events this year in Malaysia, England and Singapore.

"I have to adjust many things and I have to play better if I want to win."

The 200,000-dollar Japan Open is the seventh leg of badminton's 12-round Super Series.

Markis Kido & Hendra Setiawan Stopped in Japan Super Series 2008

Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan Men's single badminton athletes from Indonesia lost from Yonatan Suryatama and Rian Sukmawan whom also from Indonesia.

Markis and Hendra, who were considered as the superior in this match lost in 41 minutes. Although they got gold medal in Beijing Olympics 2008, they could not win the match and defeated with 21-17, 14-21, and 21-19.

Taufik Hidayat Lost AGAIN in Japan Super Series 2008

Taufik Hidayat got the second lost after failed to defend the Beijing Olympics 2008. Taufik must end the Japan Super Series 2008 only until the quarterfinal. He was defeated by Joachim Persson, a badminton athlete from Denmark.

In the game which held in Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Shibuya, Tokyo, (19/9/2008) Taufik Hidayat lead the game in the beginning. He won the first set with 21-12. But in the second set, Hidayat who still leading in the beginning of the set, unable to defend it. Slowly Joachim Persson lead the second set and won it with 21-19.

In the third set Persson increase his gameplay. He lead quicly until 12-5 at first, but Taufik Hidayat took lead with 17-16. The game became tighter until deuce 20-20. In the end, Persson got the last set and automatically won the game with 23-21. In the semifinal Persson will face Lee Chong Wei.

Saina Nehwal Out From Japan Super Series 2008

Saina Nehwal badminton athletes of India out from Japan Super Series 2008. She lost in the badminton tournament in straight set in the first round in Tokyo on Wednesday.

She was the Beijing olympics quarterfinalist who lost from Hong Kong's badminton athletes, Mi Zhou in 30 minutes. Zhou will take on local favourite Megumi Taruno, outplayed Canada's Charmaine Reid 21-8 21-9.

Saina had clinched the prestigious Grand Prix Gold event in Chinese Taipei last week after a fine Olympic debut, in which she beat some higher ranked opponents en route to the quarterfinals.

Mixed Doubles Badminton Rank 2009

Rank	Name	Nation	Points
1	Liliyana Natsir/Nova Widianto	Indonesia	78424
2	Gao Ling/Zheng Bo	China	72068
3	He Hanbin/Yu Yang	China	67570
4	Flandy Limpele/Vita Marissa	Indonesia	65980
5	Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen	China	65380
6	Gail Emms/Nathan Robertson	England	59716
7	Sudket Prapakamol//Saralee Thoungthongkam	Thailand	56210
8	AnthonyClark/Donna Kellogg	England	56188
9	Thomas Laybounr/Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Denmark	54542
10	Lee Hyo Jung/Lee Yong Dae	South korea	49870
11	Nadiezda Kostiuczk/Robert Mateusiak	Poland	47161
12	Hwang Yu Mi/Han Sang Hoon	South Korea	42940
13	Kristof Hopp/Birgit Overzier	Germany	41374
14	Li Yujia/Hendri Kurniawan Saputra	Singapore	39237
15	Chou Chia Chi/Chen Hung Ling	Taiwan	37280
16	Ingo Kindervater/Kathrin Piotrowski	Germany	36820
17	Imogen Bankier/Robert Blair	Scotland/England	36730
18	Cheng Wen Hsing/Fang Chieh Min	Taiwan	34800
19	Britta Andersen/Joachim Fischer Nielsen	Denmark	34429
20	Miyuki Maeda/Keita Masuda	Japan	32280

China The Badminton Power

China is the best country for badminton now. They have best badminton athletes and most of them placed in the top BWF rank. Just say the most famous badminton athletes: Lin Dan, Bao Chinlai, Xie Xingfang, Lu Lan, etc. They came from China.

China has dominated the medals of many championship. China has solid team and good athletes. In the Thomas and Uber cup, they have got both of the trophy. Furthermore in the 2008 Beijing Olympic China got 3 gold medals (men's singles, women's doubles, and women's singles), 2 silvers medal (men's doubles, women's singles), and 3 bronzes (men's singles, mixed doubles, womens doubles). It's result is better than other countrie like Indonesia and South Korea which could get one gold medal only.

8 Tips How to Choose Sport Shoes

Sport shoes are important to wear while doing sport like badminton. It prevent player from leg injury. Not every sport shoes also suitable for every sport. However, not many people know how to choose the proper shoes. I will inform 8 tips how to choose sport shoes….

1. Don’t buy multifunction shoes. A daily shoes which often uses to walk has hard material. Sport shoes have softer material to make you run and stop without making slip. The shoes has extra grid to reduce slip and extra material to increase its endurance and conformability.
2. Measure your foot periodically. Measure your foot size periodically at least twice a year. A research proved that the foot size can be change although the person is old already.
3. Buy it after doing exercise. Foot size can increase depend on the activity. Harder activity you do, bigger also your foot will be. It happens only temporary; your foot will come back to the size after you finish the exercise and doing other work. Of course, you don’t want feel the pain in your foot for that. So, buy the shoes exactly after doing the exercise.
4. Try with your socks. Socks make your foot more comfortable. It is also make your foot seems bigger. So, try to use the sport shoes with your socks to get the real size.
5. Don’t get comfortable quickly. Don’t get comfortable and satisfied only with a pair of shoes. Try as many shoes as you can. And don’t just try it in the front of the mirror. Try to walk or even run with it. It is because you will wear it for sport activity.
6. Pay attention to the size. Pay a high attention to the size. Make sure it is really fit with you. Bigger shoes will get off easily, but smaller shoes will make you hurt.
   
7. Money doesn’t lie. Don’t wish to get high quality shoes with cheap price. The quality of $500 will be better than $50 shoes. You can get cheap shoes with good quality if you buy second hand shoes.
8. Time to hang off you shoes. Shoes have their lifetime. There is a time to really hang them off and get the new one. Ideally a sport shoes need to be replaced after being used for 500-600 kilometers. Or you can change it if the rubber on the grid is getting thinner and not comfortable anymore to be used.

Zhu Lin Profile

Zhu Lin is a women's single badminton player from China. She was born on April 30, 1984 in Shanghai China. Zhu Lin started the national team of China in 2004. Now she is in the 3rd of BWF world rank.

She began to show her talent at the women's single of the Malaysia Super Series n 2007. She beaten Whang Chen of Hongkong in the final with score 21-8 and 21-12. Whang Chen have beaten Xie Xingfang in the semi-final. Zhu was not even expected to win the final because her opponent was Wang Chen, who defeated her in their previous four meetings. And that was her first winning from Wang Chen.

Zhu Lin won the Indonesia Open and the Thailand Open in 2006, finishing that year ranked sixth in the BWF World Rankings. In 2006, she was the runner-up at the Swiss Open and South Korea Open and was part of a team title winner at the Doha Asian Games. Zhu won women’s singles title at the 2002 Asian Junior Championships. She won team title at the 2000 World Junior Championships.

Zhu Lin's aunt was a badminton coach. She taught her to play badminton since she was eight. Zhu leaved her parrents at 14 to live on her own. She moved from Shanghai to Anhui and then she moved again to Beijing and became the provincial team and later the national team.

South Korea Took The Gold Mixed Medal

Lee Hyojung and Lee Yongdae, mixed double from South Korea, unpredictedly got the gold medal from Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir from indonesia. Lee Hyojung and Lee Yongdae are in the 10th rank while Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir are in the first rank. Howefer, the South Korean players could made it in straight set 21-11, 21-17.

In the first set Lee Hyojung and Lee Yongdae got points fastly until 16-18 and they won the set in 21-11. Their domination was continued in the second set. Even the mistakes which are made by Nova and Lily made the point gap became bigger. The set was end in 21-17.

Lin Dan Won Gold Medal In Beijing

Lin Dan, a men single badminton player from China won the gold medal in Beijing Olympics after beating Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia 21-12 and 21-8. The top seed was in control from the outset and eased past second seed Lee for China's third badminton title. Lin, 24, took an 11-1 lead in the second game with Lee's only point coming on an unforced error by Lin.

Bidding for Malaysia's first Olympic gold, Lee was no match for Lin, who won the match with a smash down the line that Lee returned into the net. A soldier in the People's Liberation Army, Lin wrapped a Chinese flag around his shoulders and saluted to the crowd. "I think this is one of the best matches of my career," he said.

China's Chen Jin won the bronze, defeating Lee Hyunil of South Korea 21-16 12-21 21-14. Lee had been booed a few days earlier when he dumped Chinese third seed Bao Chunlai out of the tournament in a heated match. But the crowd was on their best behaviour on Sunday, enjoying a closely-fought match which Chen won with an overhead smash.