Tuesday June 19, 2007

Malaysia make bid to host 2010 Thomas Cup

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia have made a bid to host the 2010 Thomas Cup Finals (world men's team championship).

But they will not host the Uber Cup Finals (world women’s team championship) if the Badminton World Federation (BWF) decide to stage it separately.

The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) secretary, Ganga Rao, said yesterday: “We submitted the bid in December last year and it was brought to the attention of the delegates at the annual general meeting (AGM) in Glasgow over the weekend.”

However, a final decision on the bid is expected to be made later in the year.

Besides Malaysia, China and Brazil have applied to stage the Thomas Cup Finals while Japan are interested to play hosts to the Uber Cup Finals.

The Thomas Cup was first staged in 1948 while the Uber Cup made its debut 1956. And both competitions were staged simultaneously biennially from 1984.

Indonesia hold the record of being the most successful country in the Thomas Cup, having won the event 13 times while China dominated the Uber Cup with nine championship to their name.

Malaysia last hosted the Thomas Cup at the Putra Stadium in Kuala Lumpur in 2000 and was eliminated in the group stages.

Malaysia have won the Thomas Cup six times with the last victory achieved when they were the hosts in 1992.

Sorry guys , I din read the news as I wasn't IN to badminton when i was 13 years old ( 2007 ) , I got interested in Badminton when i was 14 ( 2008 ) and now I'm 15 ! !!!!!!!! and I'm CRAZY about badminton especially WONG MEW CHOO !

haha , k thats all for now . good night people !