That's only your interpretation,and you can't speak for everyone, we would like to hear Lin Dan's side of the story as well. I'd hazard a guess that as he started the match with a good lead (6-0) and was still 13-11 up before he tanked losing the next 9 points in a row, I assumed he played to win and the multiple linecalls must have upset him enough to react the way he did. Now I wonder if this time next year when he has to come here to play for the ranking points needed for the OG qualification cycle, what might happen then. As it is, he is now fighting to improve his world ranking, currently 16 and should be 13 when the MAS Open result is counted, so I see little reason why he would exit the tournament like that. I mean, if he wanted to withdraw from this tournament, he can simply do so and pay the small fine as regulated by BWF without any incident. Just saying.
Personally, I believe this the part of "process". Incidents like this is unfortunately unavoidable until the process is finished. As times goes on (and BWF get richer), in the end all court will have hawk eyes. Otherwise it will go back to the cycle: "Line judges are human, prone to error" -> *install hawk eye on court 1* -> "how unfair, only court 1" -> *removes hawk eye* -> "Line judges are human, prone to error" And it cycle goes round and round until badminton use stainless steel shuttles.
The one to blame is the organiser, putting god know matches on ct 1 instead of LD's ...no respect for the Legend. The spectators should have protested and chanted 'We want LD on ct 1' ..see what you get.
I understand that. It takes a lot of time and money. But for now, on early stages those who have the privileged of being "picked" by the organizer are the lucky ones. The other courts still have no assistance from hawk eye. Besides, personal views aside, shouldn't having LD happy (playing on court 1) help the marketing side of this sport?
The only MD on court 1 or 2 tomorrow is KGJ/LYD vs Ahsan/Hendra, but they have quite a number of matches between two unseeded players court 1 or court 2. Unbelievable. None of the top seeds scheduled on court 1. Minions, TTY, and Momota will have to wait for the players before them to finish any court after 7 pm.
Ooops no, skipped today event due to work, but will be back tmr, glad that minions is scheduled at 7 local time, just enough time to be there LoL. Read about the Lindan Saga though hahaha what a pity to him
I want to complain too, Why they schedule MD matches to start so early! dont they know MD have higher viewership, How can Ahsan hendra LYD KGJ scheduled at 4PM omg! why cant they move the WD matches to earlier timing instead
so you mean todays LD turn, tomorrow Minions turn? that will be trouble in paradise lol. It doesnt look good for line judges at night time.
Mixed bag of feelings today. On a brighter note, the Nishimoto-Liew match was definitely the match of the day for me. Nishimoto played brilliantly and displayed uncharacteristic flashes of aggression in his play when it mattered instead of his usual retrieving game.
Lol, that will be way so dangerous. Imagine that a player got hit by that shuttle, the bleeding will occur. More players will get injured.
Agree with you. For the benefit of those who were not courtside, VA was generous to LD in the beginning by gifting him 6 points. Then VA got too fast for him so LD gave up playing. Two line calls astounded him. The first line call in his favour was overruled by the umpire. The second line call by two line judges was correct but LD couldn't believe it. LD expects the umpire, line judges and the crowd to be on his side to help him win. Not in Singapore, LD. We are not part of China. It s neutral territory here. Try harder next year.
Somebody posted Lindan's interview some time back after his title win last week. In that Interview, he clearly said that he would not be playing Singapore open. I was expecting the same and was keenly watching withdraw list but he did not withdraw. To think of that , after seeing Lindan retiring from his first match, you can clearly say that it is already planned and also he might have booked his ticket already.
Stupid rubbish talk. Utter fallacy and malicious. It reflects pathetically on you, not Lin Dan, and it has absolutely nothing to do with expecting the umpire, linejudges and the crowd to be on anybody's side anywhere in the world. Specifically, without IRS and you know which of the three linecalls is/are correct ? Why not BWF get you to do the work of IRS (Hawk-Eye) , how much do you want for that job? Cheaper and more reliable and trustworthy than Hawk-Eye ? VA was being generous to Lin Dan in the beginning by gifting him 6 points ??? Was Lin Dan being even more generous to VA by gifting him 9 points from 13-11 onward, returning the favour ?
Protesting against dubious linecalls is childish behaviour ? Then why does BWF spent so much on Hawk-Eye IRS ? Not only infantile but also wasteful, extravagant ?
As I've already said, he could simply withdraw and pay the fine, small potato to him if CBA refused to pay for him. Some players have done it before.
