Under-fire Korea storm into badminton Thomas Cup quarters
AFP, May, 2008
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JAKARTA (AFP) — South Korea fielded its strongest side to whip minnows Canada and storm into the Thomas Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday, a day after throwing its group games to win a more favourable draw.
The Korean tactics, which sparked controversy and forced the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to admit the rules needed changing, worked as planned to line up a knockout round match against Denmark.
Thailand, Japan, and England joined them in the last eight of the elite team championships, while the Netherlands, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Germany booked their places in the same phase of the women's Uber Cup.
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In contrast to their group games against England and Malaysia where they either left out their top singles players Park Sung-Hwan and Lee Hyun-Il or played them in doubles, it was a full-strength South Korea against Canada.
Park crushed Andrew Dabeka 21-11, 21-11 while ...
