Kings of Tennis - Big Bang Penang 2008?
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Big Bang Penang 2008 was supposed to kick off starting today through 16th Nov 2008 featuring big tennis players like Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe plus other 5 world ranked tennnis players. Unfortunately, at the 11th hour, it was declared a non-event a day before 14th Nov 2008. The players from Europe are not coming after all as agreed payment was not made to them by Kings of Tennis who was in charge of the players and setting up of the stage. It was a big disappointment after so much excitement over a big event like this supposed to take place in Penang for the first time. Arianna Teoh, former Miss Malaysia was the organising co-chairman of this event and she played a big role to get permission from the Majlis to stage and use Esplanade for the tournament.
From the photos above, you can see that much money has been spent by the various companies to set up the seatings, installed a tennis court using Premium coating from USA, plus staging and lights for singing as well. Arianna brought in Celine Dion recently to KL and it was a success. However with Big Bang Penang by Kings of Tennis, more players and people are involved and it is not as easy as bringing in Celine Dion, one singer from USA. What was touted as Big Bang Penang has instead turned out to be Big Blow Penang as losses amount to around RM17.5 million according to the newspaper reports. And rumours have it that the organizing team Kings of Tennis is sueing someone for misinformation and false promises. And the RM200,000 rental for the use of Esplanade has not been paid. The Penang State Government even help out by waiving a 2 million ringgit deposit before setting up the staging and it turned out to be an embarassment for the public. It was such a big let down and I was hoping to get a free pass to watch this tournament.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
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Big Bang Penang 2008 was supposed to kick off starting today through 16th Nov 2008 featuring big tennis players like Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe plus other 5 world ranked tennnis players. Unfortunately, at the 11th hour, it was declared a no…
November 14th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Too bad it was canceled…
November 14th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
This is such a huge let down, really.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
KY & Irenelim: Yeah, it was a huge disappointment. By the way, it rained today around the time the players are supposed to start at 5pm this evening.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
You can see a bunch of MCA loosers are acting like monkey in the tennis field today. And they are like enjoying while Penangite is disapointing. It is not the fault of our state government but the organizer. The problem might not the organizer but the players, i guess.
no matter how, i still stand strong with DAP government! MCA pls stop celebrating now! The more you celebrate the more penangite hate you. and you might end up less than 10 votes in the next election if u still act like monkey. lol!
November 16th, 2008 at 7:38 am
fantastic snap shot. how i wish to have such a lovely court for my tennis academy in penang.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
skboey: Thanks, but it is a pity that the new tennis court will be digged up and area replanted with grass.
anti-mca: this is a temporary set back for the pakatan government in Penang - they lack experience to handle such high profile event.
June 11th, 2009 at 6:53 am
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