Recent Malaysian Sports Victories

Although the sole Malaysian entry into the Women's Table Tennis World Cup did not end up as the winner, Malaysia has had some recent success on the world's sports stage.

Nicol David


Probably the most popular person in Malaysia is Nicol David. Last week Nicol won the womens' squash world championship for the fifth time. She has been ranked as the number one player in the world in for the last 55 months.

Nicole, from Penang, is of mixed Indian and Chinese ("Chindian") descent. In February, a Malaysian Readers Digest poll listed her as the most "trusted person" in Malaysia. Next month, Nicol hopes to win the Gold Medal in the Commonwealth games (if India gets their act together in time for the games to go on) to cement her place as the greatest female squash player of all time.


Nicol (in the foreground) plays her Egyptian opponent in the finals of the World Championships.

photos from www.worldsquash.org


Lee Chong Wei

Lee Chong Wei is currently the top ranked male badminton player in the world. Over the weekend he defeated his arch rival Lin Dan from China to win the Japan Open title.


Lee Chong Wei celebrates his victory over Lin Dan in the Japan Open.

photo from Star

Brief Texas Sports Update

The Texas Tech football team did not play this weekend. They will travel to Ames to play Iowa State next Saturday evening (that will be around 7:00 AM on Sunday morning in KL). I had to chuckle when I saw that UT had been upset by UCLA in Austin (again!!).

I had planned on staying up last night to listen to the Dallas Cowboy's game against the Texans (about a 1:00 AM kickoff). I crashed, but I was pleased to learn that the Cowboys finally won their first game. Sadly, being 1-2 puts them right back in the NFC East race.