Xue Song ought to know that giving your opponent who has fallen behind you towards the finishing line half-a-chance and he would sense it and immediately come charging back. Playing it safe, avoiding mistakes and hoping for your opponent to make unforced errors under pressure to catch up is not the best strategy, it's usually counter-productive and likely to backfire. Besides, at 18-16 up, XS should remind himself he still has 3 more pts to go and must never let up one bit; even if he's holding matchpoint(s), the final point is always the hardest to win as many seasoned players would attest to it. In terms of skills, these two up-and-comers are about even, little separates them. XS's defeat this time I'd attribute partly to his relative lack of experience. It'll be quite some time before we see them cross swords again, the more so when XS's international appearance continues to be rather limited.
[TABLE="class: ruler matches player"] [TR] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR] [TD="align: right"]Xin (F) Liu[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Anna Thea Madsen[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]21-12 21-6[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Liu Xin sails into the Round of 16 with a comfortable victory. She, in all likelihood, will take on Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand. In their only encounter till date, Liu Xin won.
Often it can be a pain watching WSX play and see her reduced to passivity every now and then mainly because of the one weapon she's glaringly missing, a workable smash.
Hu Yun literally threw the 2nd set away, even "intentionally" mishitting a sitter plus a few other easy shots and went out 21-8 after being downed 21-17 in the 1st.
Axelsen was up 7-4, but Chen Long took him into the break 8-11. It's a shame. I hope Viktor can pull out some magic. The Let's Go Viktor Kid is back.
Can someone please please, give me a link for court 1 (Lin Dan match)? The ones mentioned previously aren't working. I live in an educational institute which has an internal network and we connect to the internet via an institute proxy connection. I suspect this may have something to do with why the links, who may be working for you guys.
Once again, Hawk-Eye to the rescue for Chen Long, for the 3rd time at least. At the same time, he's getting smarter at the net.
[TABLE="class: ruler matches player"] [TR] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR] [TD="align: right"]Dan Lin[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Tien Chen Chou[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]22-20 10-21 21-18[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Lin Dan will next take on Jan O Jorgensen, who outclassed German Marc Zwiebler, and will be keen to avenge his Japan Open loss.
so close, and in the first game lin dan is always lucky same as when in AG against LCW he lost 16-20 but wo wont it 22-20 in the end.
