NATIONAL Sports Institute's (NSI) Rosdie Ghani, as from today, will replace Behrad Honer as the physical trainer for struggling pair Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong. Rosdie, who has been guiding Lee Chong Wei for the last six years, has been given the added responsibility of assisting Kien Keat-Boon Heong...

Former Olympic champion Rexy Mainaky was a broken man when he was demoted from the high-profile job of coaching the men’s doubles elite team to grooming the women’s doubles players last year. But he is having the last laugh. His old pair of Chin Eei Hui-Wong Pei Tty are back in the reckoning for...

Shuttler Goh V Shem is ready to rock in his debut at the Thomas Cup qualifying tournament in Macau from Feb 13-19. He is confident that he and the other first-timers in the team will make a difference despite their lack of experience. V Shem and his partner Lim Kim Wah are part of the squad, together...

NATIONAL singles coach Rashid Sidek does not want the Thomas Cup players to create an embarrassing chapter in Malaysian badminton by failing to survive the qualifying rounds in Macau on Feb 13-19. It is a known fact the this year’s Thomas Cup squad is the weakest but Rashid, part of Thomas Cup-winning...

THE BA of Malaysia (BAM) may need to evaluate the decision to appoint Chi Zhanrong as the women's singles coach as the players have either stagnated or have not shown much progress for almost a year now. BAM has been struggling to fill the void left by Wong Mew Choo and the progress rate of the current...

THE "breakaway" training sessions of the various national squads will not be allowed by the BA of Malaysia (BAM) anymore. And the entire men's team will begin joint training sessions on Thursday to have more effective preparations for the London Olympics. The high performance committee has directed...

THE fall from grace of Tan Wee Kiong, tipped as a future star in the men's doubles not long ago, was complete when his name was missing from the Thomas Cup squad named for the qualifying rounds next month. And it took the coaches two whole days to coax the disappointed player not to quit the national...

World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei has delivered the cold hard truth regarding Malaysia’s Thomas Cup squad: “We are simply not good enough.” Besides four-time Thomas Cupper Chong Wei, the other men’s singles in the squad are Liew Daren, Mohd Arif Abdul Latif and the surprise recall of KLRC’s Mohd Hafiz...