I thought you said: "The pressure is more on Chen Long now, and he's not very good at handling it." CL has proven you very wrong.
congrats to Chen Long. 21 - 6 yeah. Indian MS and WS has to wait to another SS / SSP to prove that their victory in China open is not only by luck ; good draw, no top 10 opponent for WS winner, and only against the old guard whom is not fully fit for MS winner
Justin is justified in his views on Chen Long being mentally weak after his disastrous performance in the TC and AG team finals, added to his early rd exit last week.
Similarly the "upstart" has put the even better LD with a crushing defeat as SK beat him in two straight games. CL lost G2, remember.
Thank you, my friend, for justifying my fair comment based on what has happened to Chen Long recently.
If Chen Long hadn't slackened in G2, he would have finished it in two straight sets. But, come to think of it, it's good as we got a chance to see how Chen Long tamed KS in the 3rd.
Err.. I overheard a young boy saying, 'If KS cannot beat Chen Long, how to beat Lin Dan?' I corrected him and said he beat LD last week, to which he retorted,"'That' Lin Dan? I'm referring to The Lin Dan !" Immediately, I shut up.
Well the TC is a team event and the rest of the team looks up to you for a good start. And his pressure has increased as the better player LD is not playing 1st Singles but 2nd. Naturally he would have liked to change place with LD, but the rules disallow this. Individual event is different from team event like the TC. CL is free to play unencumbered, no team pressure. Didn't he win the World Championship?
All good things must come to an end. Just like CTC before him, KS has an amazing run, both under unusual circumstances, and it has come to a halt, as it must at some point in time. I must say, both CTC and KS are rising stars. With both Lin Dan and Lee CW aging, they and perhaps a few others are the ones to challenge Chen Long for supremacy in future.
