Eleanor Chua (Singapore #1) celebrates with her team mates after scoring a point. (Photo 3 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Cassandra Tay (Singapore #7) sets backwards to Lim Chien Wen while Ryshire Wu (Singapore #2) acts as a decoy. (Photo 4 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Macau’s #5 sends the ball into the net. (Photo 5 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Ryshire Wu (Singapore #2) bumps the ball up. (Photo 6 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Ong Weiyu (Singapore #3) powers a spike from the opposite corner. (Photo 7 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Eleanor Chua (Singapore #1) and Jolly Chan (#5) go up to block Lai Carlos Joanna’s (Macau #9) ball. (Photo 8 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Lim Chien Wen (Singapore #9) pumps her fist in victory after the team wins a point. (Photo 9 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Eleanor Chua (Singapore #1) and Jolly Chan (#5) form a block against Macau. (Photo 10 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Macau celebrate after winning a point. (Photo 11 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Ryshire Wu (Singapore #2) manages to stop a spike by Macau. (Photo 12 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Cassandra Tay (Singapore #7) drops the ball across as Ryshire (Singapore #2) goes up to fake a spike. (Photo 13 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Macau’s #14 sends her spike through a gap in Cassandra’s (Singapore #7) block. (Photo 14 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Eleanor Chua (Singapore #1) and Cassandra (#7) turning back to look for the ball. (Photo 15 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Eleanor Chua (Singapore #1) looks on at the spike which evaded her block. (Photo 16 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
A Macau player chases after a deflected ball. (Photo 17 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Pon Gabriela (Macau #13) is a face of disappointment after Singapore win the third set. (Photo 13 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
hey, in one of the photos, Lai Jun Wei, you stated that ‘Cassandra Tay (Singapore #7) sets backwards to Lim Chien Wen while Ryshire Wu (Singapore #2) acts as a decoy.’ (photo 4) i think it quite bad and inappropriate to use the phrase ‘acts as a decoy’ as it is may have a negative effect on Rayshire, you should change the phrase to a better one. thankyou
Thank you for your feedback.
A decoy is generally known as something which is used to divert the attention of something else. In this case, rather than saying that she went up for a fake, I would rather put it that she acted as a decoy as part of the team’s strategy so that her teammate could attack.
I do not see how this is a negative connotation because this is all part of the team’s play. By drawing the attention of the blockers to her, she might even in turn increase her teammate’s chances at scoring.
In any case, I have just spoken to her and she is fine with this phrase because in her opinion, the centre spiker’s role is to go up for fakes (i.e. act as a decoy).