They are now in determined form. The 2009 French Open title will go to them. MK/HS will lose to the Japaneses in the 1st round. Boleh~
Yup, could be! According to WBF website (http://www.internationalbadminton.org/news_item.aspx?id=27355), Markis Kido had been seen limping out of the stadium after their qurter final match in Denmark Open, wondering when he will be fully recovered from his injury
Kido has great fighting spirit and a great partner, Hendra Setiawan. And Hendra, like Park Joo Bong a good 2.5 decades ago, can still win a match or a title while playing with an injured partner. Even with Kido's limp, this year they won Japan SS and Korea Asian Championships, runnerup in S'pore SS and and advanced up to semifinals in a few other tournaments. No other pair in the current top 5 can do what they did, so far.
Wow.. - So, KKK & TBH's Denmark Open SS title really impressed you so much, eh?? - I'll wait for badMania to have his say on the fate of his fave MD pair.
I think, kkk/tbh will win when you least expected them to. And chris, i see you as a good predictor too. What say you?
^^Me??..a good predictor??..^^ ..predict about what???..predict that Taufik will not win any SS title this yr???..
Don't worry. Taufik will advance to the Final and, if he's lucky, may get his first SS title this year.
As always, wise words from our abedeng. He's among one of the few who watch the matches live most of the times to be able to draw his conclusion. There's nothing more I will add
To add a little bit, it's even considered a miracle that Markis Kido can still play badminton, despite his various setbacks this year. Not to mention add the Japan SS title to their trophy cabinet. At the moment, they have won ALL the 6 SS held in the second half of the year (Japan, China Masters, Denmark, French, Hong Kong, China). They are only lacking the Korea, All-England, Swiss, and Singapore SS titles (having come close as runner-up in the last two).
FYI, PJB was never successful w/o KMS and Kindra never won the title in the tournaments where JJS/LYD participated since 2008. They have poor records against the top 3 MD teams: JJS/LYD, FHF/CY, and KKK/TBH. In sum, recently, they can only win any title only when they could luckily escape from fighting against one of the three. That's all due to Kido's knee injury. Reference: http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/s...48CDAD-55A6-4A65-B291-F28D50B709CE&player=104 (Just check for whom they have won and lost to.)
I believe MK/HS do not really have problem to beat FHF/CY, the olympic final, Hong Kong SS semifinal 2007 has proven it. Against KKK/TBH, they managed to win on their 3 last encounters, they managed to win these matches (French SS 2008 and Olympic quarter final), only in the latest encounter KKK/TBH managed to beat MK/HS, thanks to MK's injury (SS finals in Malaysia). Pls correct me if I'm wrong
kido got his olympic medal when kkk/tbh cy/fhf lyd/jjs join this tournament..kido beat kkk/tbh in quaterfinal..beat cy/fhf in final.. think that u should be more objective when giving comment
Right, that's all for their wins; except those a few, they all lost to the top three. Otherwise we should recall the old records of 2 or 3 years ago.
come on first u say since 2008 and now u recall 2 or 3 years ago 3 years ago they just a new and young pair 2 years ago they got world champion beating lyd/jjs malaysia player??world champion?olympic champion?? they just play and play dunno when they have to rest for the biggest tournament
Yawn... Worry not, perhaps our Korean friend here has nothing to do while waiting his/her favorite player fully recovered from his injury and compete again, thus creating this thread.