In an earlier post, I linked to a video of Tai Tzu-Ying playing badminton on the sidewalk with her 90-year old grandma. The video is from 2020, when badminton tournaments were suspended due to the pandemic (more context here).
TTY is now effectively retired, but at the time, she was world no.1 in women's singles. She held that ranking for a record 214 weeks, although the two biggest titles in badminton – the World Championships and the Olympics – always eluded her (she won silver in both, but not gold). TTY is my favourite badminton player, not because of her many records and achievements but simply because of the way she played – graceful, fluid, seemingly effortless, spontaneous, unpredictable and endlessly creative. (For a taster, see Tai Tzu Ying: Queen of Deception.)
Anyway, the aforementioned sidewalk reel is one of my favourite videos on the internet. It has captions in Mandarin, but I haven't seen a translation, so I got my friend Muzi to transcribe the captions and ran them through Google Translate. For anyone else who is as obsessed as I am, here's the text in simplified Chinese:
奶奶第一次试打
站姿看起来很有架势💪🏼
我的假动作一定是奶奶遗传给我的
再看一次🤣
不小心丢到奶奶的脸了🤭
奶奶这个杀球太快了！
要看到最后哦😏😏
跟奶奶解释她打的太快了
我会接不到😅
奶奶有慧根
一点就通
奶奶一直想站着打
我跟她解释这个瓷砖地担心站着会滑
又来一个假动作🤣
原来奶奶也是欠训练的啦👍🏼
再看一次精彩表演
... and in English:
Grandma's first time trying it out.
Her stance looks pretty good.💪🏼
My feint must have been inherited from Grandma.
Watch it again 🤣
I accidentally hit her in the face.🤭
Grandma's smash was so fast!
Be sure to watch until the end!😏😏
I explained to Grandma that she hit it too fast
and I wouldn't be able to return it.😅
Grandma is quick to learn.
She gets it right away.
Grandma always wanted to play standing up.
I explained to her that I was worried coz the tile floor was slippery.
Here comes another feint.🤣
Turns out, even grandma needs some training!👍🏼
Let's watch another great performance!
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