I don't know if that kind of thing will happen here. As far as I know they choose who is going or not going based on their ranks. Maybe that's why we suck at WC..
That's because there's no clear favourite based on recent or proven performances and past results; otherwise it's a no-brainer for the Head Coach who to select without fearing protests and complaints. Let's say, BAM, if LCW is not qualified due to minor injury, would the Head Coach (or Technical Director) hesitate to sacrifice either Iskandar, Zulfadli or Chong Wei Feng for him ? Of course not. Needless to say, the justification has to be strong and convincing enough to brook little or no opposition.
Incidentally, Chen Yufei's victory over Sayaka Takahashi earlier today was her second in two months, she last defeated her at the Swiss Open GPG in March.
Would be nice too especially as JPN have been swiping lots of title this year. It is a bloom of JPN WD!
Yup, Eriko Hirose. Aya Ohori will take on another home shuttler today, Zhang Yiman. This pretty Japanese young lady needs to improve technical skill to break into elite level.
QUARTERFINALS (05.00pm) => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...FDA1D9-D2D9-40B1-B2F8-BD617515DB14&d=20170421 Home players dominate last eight round in this less competitive tounaments, Lin Dan will take on TPE number three Hsu Jen Hao and slated to face Qiao Bin tomorrow if the latter could pass Kanta Tsuneyama. Qiao as usual was troubled by Indian player, this time former world number six Parupalli Kashyap stretched him into three games. On bottom-half draw, bright prospect to create all CHN affairs, promising junior Sun Feixiang may upset Huang Yuxiang while Tian Houwei is favoured to eliminate Taiwanese veteran Hsueh Hsuan Yi. Only two Japanese players remain in the fray, 2015 New Zealand Open winner Saena Kawakami will challenge home favourite Chen Yufei and second seed Aya Ohori will be tested by another local hurdle, Zhang Yiman. Four Chinese hungry talents will eye semifinal spot, Gao Fangjie against Han Yue and Li Wenmei gets 2017 China IC winner Cai Yanyan. Men's doubles discipline is offering more interesting scenario here, two China best hopefuls Liu C/Zhang Nan also recent Thai Masters champion Wang YL/Huang KX will find stern test today, INA-MAS partnerships Setiawan/Tan BH and Angriawan/Hardianto respectively. The front-runners Chen HL/Wang CL will face Malaysian duo Chooi KM/Low JS. One remaining tie will pit Japanese combiantion Inoue/Kaneko against Chinese juniors He JT/Tan Q who stunned third seed Lu CY/Yang PH, the Taiwanese pair managed runner-up position in two GP Gold early this year, IND Open & THA Masters.
If he still displays uninspiring performance for next Superseries tourneys, no doubt his fate will be the same with hopeless guy Wang ZM. It's really cruel and hard competition in China, different with other countries that only have 2 or 3 promising talents, good isn't enough, you should be excellent for China standard.
THW is borderline inconsistent than most CHN talents. In someday, he can reach final of SS event, most day, he failed to pass QF. He, as a retriever and not a attacking based player, is so vulnerable to other players.
I think it is already done. He will end up like Wang Zhengming. 25 years is not a young age in badminton. Anybody with a champion attitude would have emerged by now. By 25 Lin Dan had achieved a LOT.
