Aviva World Badminton Open 2007

My 1st badminton match up close and personal, and it has to be the world championship finals. We have top seeders like the No.1 and 2 of the badminton circuit gracing this event in Singapore, which I find incredible...apparently i think we tried to get Mr Woods down previously for this Asia Golf tournament but he charges like $1-2 Mil for appearance fees, talk about being a celebrity. :P

Anyways the prize money for the Aviva open even though for a world championship seems far much lesser than a tennis or golf open, think the prize is only USD200K? My group of spectators conclude that probably badminton is still an Asian sport with the exception of Denmark (this lone scandinvian cty) ha, hence not as wealthy as the other european dominated sports maybe.

Kudos to my cuz Yiru for getting us free tickets and due to her links with the thai team, was cheering for the Thai players all the way! And the matches were really exciting, some players seem to make time stand still as they slowly glided through the court effortlessly to deliver the life -determining smash, unbelieveable.:)