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Players also hated the psychological pressure. A single service error at 6-6 meant losing the entire game. The phrase “cup shock” entered player slang — the sudden, sickening feeling of losing a game you had dominated because of two net cords and a mis-hit.

To understand the 2000 Thomas Cup—the "Cup 2000" as it is nostalgically reverenced in the badminton annals—you must understand that it was not merely a tournament. It was a shifting of tectonic plates. It was the weekend the "Great Wall" of China showed its first cracks, and the weekend Indonesia proved that magic, fueled by a home crowd, could still conquer physics. cup 2000 badminton