Lee Chong Wei History Life

 The great success that Lee has achieved now started with a very steep road. Lee admitted that when he was little he had difficulty buying one.

I knew my dad had no money, but he still tried to buy me a Pro Kennex racket. It was his first racket, costing 160 ringgit (around IDR 500,000).

When he was 13 years old and could ride a bicycle, Lee looked for a way to earn his own money. He works at a sporting goods store close to where he lives.

"For one racket, I get paid 1 ringgit. In a day, I can string 20 to 30 rackets," said Lee. He asked the shop owner to keep all his wages and replace it with rackets.

Lee's sad story does not necessarily end. He and his family had a disaster. The thief broke into his house and took a bag containing four rackets he had worked hard to get.

"Because my family is poor, it is difficult to buy a racket because we don't have money," said Lee, as reported by the local Malaysian daily, Berita Harian, as reported by Malaymail Online.

As a child, Lee and his four siblings were raised by a father who earned a salary of 800 ringgit (around Rp. 2.5 million) per month.

Lee finally got a racket when he was about to take part in his first tournament, the Milo Cup.