Hello we're currently at Heathrow Airport about to board our flight to China to play
in the China Open Super 1000! Yeah it's our first time playing in the
most dominant country in World badminton so we're very excited yeah as we've never been
to China before we're going to try and learn some of the language, the culture
and also hopefully learn how they're so good at badminton! Time to board the fight let's go
okay we've just landed in Beijing after a 10 hour
flight now time for our second flight to Nanjing but not before a quick nap
so they didn't accept card
only WeChat pay or alipay this could be an interesting and difficult week
we've just checked in and now we are very tired so we're going to go straight to
Round two
morning we're on our way to our first main hall practice let's go
uh we're about to train on the main hall Courts for the first
time with Adam Hall from Scotland and Robin and Selena from the Netherlands, should be good!
what is goodbye in Chinese?
that's very hard haha
I tell you what I'm impressed with China so far everyone is so nice the
organisation has been spot on and yeah halls looking really good I can't to play!
a few moments later... okay so we're currently trying to find some food but
we've just been in restaurants and no one understands English and we also can't pay with a card
so we need to find some cash or maybe find a way of ordering online we'll figure out
so we finally found a bank machine got some cash out so we could actually get
some lunch had a lovely lunch and now we are sat in Starbucks having a coffee whilst editing this
Vlog and doing some admin work yeah admin work is booking a hotel for Hong Kong which is next week
it's now 6 p.m and we're heading out for dinner with some friends
but we're gonna leave the camera here for tonight so we'll see you tomorrow
good morning so it's potentially the day before we play but we'll talk more about
that later so this morning we have spent our time having breakfast editing this Vlog getting
on top of it and then also doing some match analysis for our patrons and now we're heading
to training walking past this massive sign in the background yeah we'll see you in training
ready go
Sorry that's not men's doubles
come on come on come on
that's out
it's the worst thing to do when you're hungry
he's using it like a knife and fork
it just does the splits!
that's so much easier
so we were actually first reserve for this tournament because we're currently
33 in the world and only 32 pairs get in but on Thursday we got promoted we don't know
who we're playing yet as we don't know who's withdrawn but that's why we don't know if we're
playing tomorrow or on Wednesday but we're now on the way to the managers meeting to find out
so we've just come out of the managers meeting and we found out we have Detchapol and Sapsiree the
world number four from Thailand and we are first match on at nine o'clock tomorrow morning very
strong opponents and that now means in the last year and a quarter we've played the current world
number one two three four five six seven eight nine ten twelve thirteen so yeah we've played
lots of good opponents we've learnt lots from them and hopefully we can put that into practice
tomorrow morning time to go check out this amazing looking Victor store it looks so cool
just a boy who loves playing badminton
so we're now back to the hotel and I'm just gonna quickly explain what we're going to do before our
match tomorrow morning at 9am so firstly we're going to grab a shower as we're very sweaty very
hot outside and then we are going to go out for food come back do our match analysis to prepare
before our game and then get an early night we'll see you at the restaurant that was very
difficult to order took us about 20 minutes to order two fish fried rice I think that's
what we've ordered in the end it could be anything that turns up and two drinks let's see what we get
okay we have our water I'm worried about what's about to come we actually saw some nice food come
out on a table back there so I went I went and pointed to it and said one of those please
okay time to do some match analysis and we're going to watch our opponents play Seo and Chae
at the recent World Championships because Seo and Chae are both left-handed and they also won fairly comfortably
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a game plan time for some sleep and we'll see you after our match tomorrow let's go
so we're just walking back to the hotel after playing our match, what are our thoughts? They
were far too good quite depressing really especially the second set losing 21-8
we just felt like we couldn't do anything to win the point the game plan that we did last
night like worked they were just better than us in every area basically yeah and that that meant
that we tried too hard once again like we have when we played the other top three in the world
and just get that extra those extra shots back and it makes it really difficult makes you feel
like you need to play perfect and we were just missing things just didn't quite go to plan
that's for sure we need to be at our absolute best to compete with those guys and they need
to be playing not as well! Playing the world's best in tournaments like this is something we've
dreamed of as kids so despite always wanting to do better we have to be grateful and after watching
the top plays in the world this week we're even more sure that consistent high quality
practice is the key to success yeah and we've absolutely loved our first time in China thanks
for following us along this week and we'll hopefully see you on another video very soon