At the badminton, Lin Dan ain’t that eloquent, but he wonders why they keep telling him he’s 34 years old even if he’s making the finals. Super Dan, whose played at a loopy dull pace all week to make it to his 7th finals, doesn’t win after all. so that their names are uttered perfectly at next month’s Japan Open and in the lead-up to Tokyo. He was cited by the tournament for three violations, including one incident in which he insulted a female chair umpire. SLAMS FOR SMASHES Badminton is keen on getting its circuit jazzed up, and though everything’s going quite smooth if you ask us, the sport wants to create tennis like Grand Slams. We desperately need foreign exposure trips but I guess for the next one year, we will have to train in India,” she wrote on the micro-blogging site, venting her ire. And a Prince without ostentatious pomp … there was more to last week’s badminton World Championship than the action on court. I understand that, if we don’t score until late, the game feels different for everybody. Sharapova, the champion in New York in 2006, returned from a 15-month doping ban in April but was refused a wildcard for the French Open while injury ruled her out of Wimbledon. “It’s great to break this record at such a historic circuit and in such a beautiful coun.