Lee Chong Wei accomplishes his commitment to feature in China Badminton Super League 2011
Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei, has fulfilled his commitment of playing two matches in the China Badminton Super League 2011, at Guangzhou, China, on March 21.
In the first match, Chong Wei defeated Du Pengyu, who was playing from the Zhejiang Yinjiang club and in the second battle, the World Number One Malaysian proved his supremacy by beating Luo Cheng of Bayi Dongling Liangyou Badminton Club.
In the first match, Chong Wei who was playing from Guangzhou Yueyu Badminton Club played his usual game against Pengyu in front of the packed indoor arena at Guangzhou. The crowed cordially greeted the Malaysian in the China Super League. In the first game
of the match, Pengyu played a terrific game and won the set by a wonderful margin of 21-14.
The World Number One made a strong come back and levelled the match by winning the second set by a 21-19 margin. In the third and final set, the Malaysian played an outstanding game and proved his worth by crushing his opponent with a huge margin of 21-10.
The concluding score of the match was 14-21, 21-19 and 21-10.
In the second match against Luo Cheng of Bayi Dongling Liangyou club, the Malaysian shuttler played well and defeated the younger Chinese in a one-sided fight. In the first-set, Luo struggled hard to return the accurate and powerful strokes of the Malaysian
and lost the set by a big difference of 10-21.
The second set was almost identical, as Chong Wei spared no chance for the Chinese to fight back in the game and won the second set by a stunning margin of 21-9. The ending score of the straight-set match was 21-10 and 21-9.
After winning the match, Chong Wei expressed that the absence of Lin Dan in the match was not a disappointment for him, as he knows that the Chinese is busy in his commercial commitments.
Wei said, “He could not play because he has commercial shoot obligations. Moreover, the match schedule of the league is quite tight and we would have to prepare for the Olympic Games’ qualifications that will begin in May.”
Chong Wei is set to leave for Malaysia, where he will focus on his training for the upcoming qualifying events for the 2012 London Olympics.
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