Indonesia and Malaysia are not as strong - physically ad mentally - as they were in the final two years ago.
Apparently both teams have injured players and apparently there is some dispute between the Indonesian BA and the players.

Malaysia have always reached the semifinal in Thomas Cup and see no reason to ruin this statistics!

Speaking of statistics - the malaysian Women are taking on Denmark today and will do their best not to walk away with a 0-5 defeat.

China is already proclamed the Uber Cup winner by many - winning their 7th title and it is also expected that they will have to beat Denmark in the final to retain the Cup from 1998!

Camilla Martin, Denmark, expects to win all her matches! She fears nobody although Gonh Zhichao of China could give her a hard time!

Oldest player at Thomas Cup is Par-Gunnar Jonsson, Sweden, age 37 - youngest is Taufik Hidayat, Indonesia, age 19.
In Uber Cup oldest player is Minarti Timur, Indonesia, age 32 - youngest player is Malaysian Ng Mee Fen, 18 last Tuesday!

* Former Thomas -/Uber Cup:
Thomas -/ Uber Cup, HongKong 1998

* Latest Worldranking from IBF

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