Kejohanan Badminton Protech Tertutup Putrajaya 2014

No narration is necessary since picture paints a thousand words. Juat a thank you note to teacher Chrisilda for your constant support and encouragement.




Aaron Boys Singls U11 Champion

Ryan Boys Singles U13 Runners-Up

BSU11

Preliminary 1 : Aaron Wong vs Muhd Haris Sufian              21 - 14

Preliminary 2 : Aaron Wong vs Arman Fahim                       21 - 2

Preliminary 3 : Aaron Wong vs Tuan Ahmad Hawwari       21 - 5

Semi Final      : Aaron Wong vs Ahmad Azamuddin             21 – 11, 21 - 14

Final                 : Aaron Wong vs  Muhd Haris Sufian            16 – 21, 21 – 18, 21 - 19

BSU13

Preliminary 1 : Ryan Wong vs Akmal Aish               21 - 2

Preliminary 2 : Ryan Wong vs Muhd Shafiq            15 - 21

Preliminary 3 : Ryan Wong vs Muhd Faris              21 - 13

Preliminary 4 : Ryan Wong vs Muhd Asymadi       21 -  4

Semi Final      : Ryan Wong vs Affiq Luqman           Walkover

Final                 : Ryan Wong vs  Muhd Ikmal Aizat  12 – 21, 15 – 21

FZ Forza 2014

Lee Qi Hong (L) & Aaron Wong (R) with their cash winnings

The timing of this tournament clashed with a few state closed and ranking competition. Therefore quite a number of the top players had to skip this tournament.  This gave Aaron a free passage to the second round which he has no trouble moving on to the third.

Wong Han Sheng is an Forza top exponent and gave Aaron quite a resistant but Aaron managed to overcome this match to meet his Putrajaya teammate Azam next n the quarterfinal. Aaron has a favourable record over Azam and as expected he moved on to the semi-final to meet an unlikely challenger in Alvin Chia whom Aaron lost 2 years ago in the 2012 BAKTI tournament.

On paper, Alvin seem to have a slight edge but surprisingly in this game, Alvin did not play to his potential . Aaron seize this opportunity to even out their head-to-head record and suddenly found himself unexpectedly in the final and very motivated to win the top prize money of RM1,000.

In the final, he has to overcome a much improved Lee Qi Hong whom has been ranked as the top KLBA player for next year junior circuit. The match was tense with Aaron taking the early lead in the first half but Qi Hong caught up and snatched the first set away from Aaron’s grasp. In the second set, Qi Hong came in strongly tactically to catch Aaron at the base line. Aaron has no answer to the strong play by his cool opponent. With unforced errors after another, Qi Hong took the second set and with it the RM1,000 purse. Aaron had to settle for the runners-up with RM500 which is still a record winning for him.

There wasn’t much celebration here because we immediately had to work on switching his attention to the Putrajaya Closed tournament on the next day of what seem to be the most important tournament of the year. Both brothers need to finish in the top 4 will qualify into Persatuan Badminton Putrajaya as a ticket to play in 2015 Junior Circuit. More to come next.

BOYS SINGLES U11

1^st Round – Aaron vs  Walkover

2^nd Round – Aaron vs Akmal Aqil Edham                    30 – 14

3^nd Round – Aaron vs Wong Han Sheng                      30 – 24

Quarter Final – Aaron vs Ahmad Azamuddin             21 – 23, 22 – 20

Semi Final – Aaron vs Alvin Chia                                   21 – 13, 21 – 19

Final  - Aaron vs Lee Qi Hong                                         19 – 21, 12 - 21 

BOYS DOUBLES U13

1^st Round – Aaron/Jie Yang vs Chee Zhe Yong/Harold Ong                           30 – 15

2^nd Round – Aaron/Jie Yang vs Wong Han Sheng/Wong Jia Cheng              27 – 30

1^st Round – Ryan/LLyeo Luaran vs Yeap Wei Yang/Ng Feng Sing                 30 – 24

Year End Holidays

2014 year end holidays are here and as expected there are a string of junior tournaments the boys will be participating. Here are the results :

 

FLEX-PRO JR SINGLE SERIES NOV 2014

BOYS SINGLES U12
Group F

1^st Preliminary – Aaron vs Sik Xiao Hui                     30 – 6

2^nd Preliminary – Aaron vs Tan Shau Heng             26 – 30

Group G

1^st Preliminary – Ryan vs Edmund Onn                    16 – 30

2^nd Preliminary – Ryan vs Ong Von Qan                  Walkover

 

MSSWPKL NOV 2014

BOYS SINGLES U11

1^st Round – Aaron vs Pon Jia Jing                               30 – 16

2^nd Round – Aaron vs Roslin Fozi                               30 – 24

3^nd Round – Aaron vs Yap Juin An                                9 – 30 

 BOYS SINGLES U12

1^st Round – Ryan vs Bye

2^nd Round – Ryan vs Tan Jia Jie                                   25 – 30

 BOYS U12 Doubles

1^st Round – Aaron/Jie Yang vs Beh Chun Meng/Tang Chang Xian   21- 30

1^st Round – Ryan/Darren vs Muhd Danish/Aziq                                  30 - 25

2^nd Round – Ryan/Darren vs Beh Chun Meng/Tang Chang Xian      20 - 30

 

Hooi Yee Yee Sports 2014

BOYS SINGLES U12

1^st Round – Aaron vs Chua Jing Yang                        30 – 26

2^nd Round – Aaron vs Teh Jin Hong                           Walkover

3^nd Round – Aaron vs Tan Jie Yang                              30 – 22

4^th  Round – Aaron vs Lim Ming Hong                        16 – 30

 BOYS U12 Doubles

1^st Round – Aaron/Jie Yang vs Lee Jie Quan/Rahman   28 - 30

 

2014 YEAR-END MUSINGS

"...some defeats are instalments to victory..."

Jacob Riss

I was analysing Ryan’s game over the many tournaments he had participated poorly this year. Most of the local tournaments adopted standard 30 points system in the early rounds. I noted Ryan’s game tended to dip after 20 points even though he took the early lead.  In numerous occasions, his opponent would catch up and some managed to snatch his game away.

My suspicion would be his biological clock being tuned to 11 points and 21 points system as standard issue in his training sessions. I didn’t realise it as much until his routine trainings started to adopt 11 points sparring system (in tandem with the BWF trial of 11 points x 5 set system) that this short fall in him became quite evident. We will have to change their sparring routine to 30 or 35 points where possible henceforth.

In the case of little Aaron, here’s an analogy of what he is made off. He is like a diesel engine. He needs to be given time to allow the engine oil to heat up to optimum temperature and flow throughout the engine system in order the get the best out of him. This may have passed by as a cursory travesty, but I realised almost every time he catnapped before a competitive match, he would performed poorly. A case to point was a late evening match drawn against the hard hitting Yap Juin Ann in the recent MSSWPKL tournament. I took him back for a shower and a nap and rushed him back just in time to register for his game. He should be fresh and well rested right? Wrong! He started cold as if his body was still asleep and lost miserably. No doubt the tactical mastery from his father’s input also contributed to Aaron’s drubbing, but he was clearly not at his best. After the match, he walked off disgruntled as he was not even tired.  We will have to remember the diesel engine analogy.

I was mulling over this troubling predicament about the consequence of night trainings. After their sessions, the hungry boys will inevitably pester me for supper. That is already close to 10.30pm or so and we don’t get back home until after 11pm, pack-out their stuff, shower and straight hitting the sack. This unhealthy routine has made Ryan gain Body-Mass-Index “BMI” noticeably. I even had to negotiate with him to reduce his portion but it is quite a daunting task to limit a growing up boy this way. As far as possible, I will get them to share a meal between them – if at all it’s possible.    

Here is another delicate situation. What do you tell your kids when they are to meet their own close friend in the next match? More so if it’s their regular doubles partner? Coaches normally practise impartiality out of respecting the sensitivity of both parents. Who doesn’t want their child to win? This is especially so if the stakes are high i.e. in a qualifying match or winning a prize in the semi-final onwards. Yes, our message is they are to play not any lesser than their other opponents and we want both the fight it out tooth and nail and may the better player win.