A tale of ‘Super Fans’ in Malaysia Open 2024

The Star

Azlina Amran and her husband Lukman Saari travel around the world to support their favourite badminton player An Se-young. They have developed a chemistry with the reigning world champion and world number one women’s singles player over the past four years.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 I like to shoot his activity from far.

00:16 Yesterday, I just want to see what

00:18 happened when An Sayong meet him.

00:21 So I saw that he's far away from An Sayong

00:24 because there's many fans in front and he's at the back.

00:27 So I said, well, yeah, it will not happen

00:30 because it's quite far.

00:32 Suddenly, she just grabbed her headband and just, you know,

00:38 go there and give to him, you know.

00:41 So I was quite shocked.

00:42 It's very-- you can see the chemistry between him and her.

00:46 Him, her, like that.

00:47 Take my phone and I want the picture.

00:49 And then, I never--

00:51 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

00:53 So give me-- she give me headband.

00:56 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

00:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:00 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

01:02 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

01:03 Actually, we have one memory.

01:05 Straight one month, we have the--

01:07 I'm not sure we want to share or not.

01:09 Actually, we cry together.

01:10 Because we're in the same hotel, right?

01:12 So I just want to give her flower.

01:14 And then, it's like, I just look at her.

01:16 She look at me.

01:17 I can't-- I just like cannot.

01:20 I just say to her, are you OK?

01:23 She's OK.

01:23 Me, I'm not OK.

01:25 So I was like, you know, like mother, mother instinct,

01:28 you know?

01:29 I just like cry.

01:30 And she cry.

01:32 Yeah, and then, the next day, she came to me from the bus.

01:35 She just walk in front of me.

01:37 And she's, are you OK?

01:39 She OK.

01:40 Our Indonesian master, [INAUDIBLE]

01:42 so we stay at the same hotel.

01:44 And then, we saw her.

01:45 She's like training at the--

01:47 near to the pool.

01:48 So we just go there, just have a gap.

01:51 And then, suddenly, her coach just went away.

01:54 And she look at us.

01:56 And then, I just ask her, do you need any help?

02:00 Then she said, yeah, yeah, I need somebody to roll there,

02:04 to put in the feet.

02:05 And then, she can do something like strength.

02:08 So she's like doing that.

02:09 And then, she look at me.

02:10 And she said, oh, my parents say thank you,

02:13 because you always support me.

02:16 But we are really grateful.

02:18 And then, when in Korea, we didn't--

02:20 we never really think that the mother really

02:22 into want to be us as a friend.

02:26 Because we just see-- hear the rumor saying that the mother

02:29 want to see us.

02:30 And suddenly, when in our lobby, they are staying in other hotel.

02:37 And then, Mr. Hong said, you come down now with the WhatsApp.

02:42 Why?

02:42 The mother, her parents waiting for you.

02:45 I said--

02:46 OK, we'll go.

02:47 Then, where are you?

02:49 And then, the president said, I'm not there.

02:52 Just the parents.

02:54 First time seeing them, like every day with them--

02:57 lunchtime, dinnertime.

02:58 We just follow, because we just want to have the experience.

03:02 But after a while, we have this thinking like, oh, no,

03:06 this is too much, overwhelmed.

03:10 I don't want Se-yong think that we are like take

03:13 advantage of the family.

03:14 So we get after the second visit.

03:18 The first glimpse is, I think, like she's 17, Taipei.

03:23 So that time, I saw her from the back.

03:26 I said, the figure is like my son.

03:30 So if he play badminton from the beginning,

03:33 maybe he can go further.

03:35 The next game, I keep on looking.

03:37 And it's nothing to do with my son anymore.

03:40 When she's have her own--

03:42 she's got his own image, very strong image.

03:45 And just like a butterfly grows with the strong structure

03:51 of wing.

03:52 [APPLAUSE]

03:56 So this is the journey of super fan of Han Se-yong.

04:00 [LAUGHTER]

04:03 Han Se-yong, Han Se-yong.

04:04 Han Se-yong back.

04:06 Together.

04:07 [LAUGHTER]

04:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]

04:14 [AUDIO OUT]

04:17 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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