It is said that emotions, if not controlled, will control you.
This was clearly displayed in the third game of the men's Buler Squash Challenge Cup final when, on game ball, Dick Lau Siu-wai reached to open the court door before his opponent, Max Lee Ho-yin, had actually won the point. Lau, who lost the game 11-1, was now down two games to one.
While Lau would come back for the last game as feisty and energised as he had been at the start, Lee took a much-closer fourth game and the won the men's championship 11-13, 11-2, 11-1, 11-9.
'In the first game I think I was just a bit nervous, I don't know why,' Lee said. 'But after the first game, I felt good and I managed to pick up his pace.'
Lau, the tournament's top seed, ran a continuing dialogue with the match referee over let calls, which only seems to add to his frustration and then emotions seemed to get the better of him. Lau made errors, dropped balls and gave Lee a chance to scramble and take advantage of loose balls.
It was the first championship for the second-seeded Lee, who, like many Hong Kong men, used the event as a warm-up to February's Asian championships in Kuwait.
