The 2 photos were taken during 2007 Good Luck Beijing Tournament. Do you know their functions?
The answers will be found in the Women’s Singles No.1 Zhang Ning’s blog. I’ll give them in the end of this article.
Let’s talk something about Zhang Ning. The exception of Olympic test event is Zhang’s injury. How will it affect the Champion’s training and her score in the coming tournament?
Zhang told us in her blog that she was feeling well under positive treatment with no hard training and would soon recover in the next few days. She will not miss the coming Dutch Open.
Additionally, she emphasized the importantance of psychological adjustment. She said as follows.
Whatever you do, positive attitude is the most important. Always be engaged yourself in the preparing, in the process. And never care too much about the results. If you do well enough in the process, the results come accordingly for you have ever worked hard on it. I often heard someone say that I am too old. Yes, I am 32 years old which normally is considered not suitable to play badminton anymore. But I am still young in terms of psychology. Always being most active is my choice toward any difficulty. Some fans asked me whether it was because of physical strength that I had not taken part in Macau Open. Here I’d like to reply that I will play my opponent to the bitter end no matter how old or tired I am in the badminton court. I am waiting for the next champion. Please support me forever!
To the topic about her injury in Good Luck Beijing event, Zhang added that she would have continued to beat any opponent if the kind of injury had occurred in the real Olympic court. She will give her best performance and wonderful match to the audience in the Olympics Games.
What an awesome women player! In my opinion, it must never be too old for Zhang Ning to play badminton. Will she score the WS title in OG 2008? Let’s wait and see.
The upper photo is an automatic shuttlecock output machine which stands beside the umpire. When players want a new one, the umpire presses a button and a shuttlecock will be sent to players. The other one is a timer that benefits for spectators to know how much time left before the match begins and for players to know how much time they have a rest for.
It’s newly equipped in badminton stadium for OG 2008. Would you like to try? Just come to Beijing next summer!
