Cats who teach me to fly…

I have been sitting at the Singapore Indoor Stadium these 3 days, watching exciting badminton matches. I will not miss the Singapore SuperSeries every year. Lin Dan is here this year. Besides him, a number of top players like Taufik Hidayat, Tantowi Ahmad, Liliyana Natsir and Bao Chunlai are here for the competition. Our women’s double won last year but today we lost to Russia. I felt that our women’s double players are not good enough.  I watched them play this afternoon. They were playing only defence. I also noticed that they were very slow in responding and that may be why they chose to use the defence strategy. Even if they had won the match today, they woud not make it through tomorrow.

The picture on my right is the indoor stadium. The picture was taken before the matches started. There were 4 courts. I was there 15mins early just to get a good seat. I was anticipating to watch Bao Chunlai playing the men’s single. He lost to Viktor Axelson of Denmark. What a disappointment for me! However, it was great watching him play.

The picture on the left was taken when the matches started.

I did nothing in the stadium but only watch the games. I felt completely drained out when I reached home. I don’t know why. I had my dinner and went to nap. I was dead tired. I was at the stadium from 2pm to 6pm – merely 4 hours and I felt so tired. It is 10pm now and the matches are still going on there. I can see the live score from the website now.

Wang Zhengming of China will be playing against Viktor Axelsen of Denmark tomorrow and I believe it is going to be an exciting match. Our woman’s single player, Gu Juan will be playing against Wang Xin of China. Well, needless to say, I believe it is going to be a tough match for Gu Juan… I’ll of course support our player all the way.

Tomorrow’s match will start at 3pm. I would probably leave after watching our team play. Merely sitting there causes me aches. It is worse than playing a 3-hour badminton game. Looking forward to tomorrow’s matches.