Korea masters 2023

tournamentsoftware seems to be down

 

TS is back.

 

Many seeds withdrew.

 

Quite a number of MAS players won.

 

Pitchamon retired after losing narrowly in the 1st game against Natsuki Nidaira

 

TPE has so many players! They outnumbered the host

 

TPE seems like having many budgets to send their players to many tournaments...

 

momota won his first game and has no ranked opponent in his bracket. this may be good for his confidence

 

Good opportunity for momota to get ranking points. The top players are gonna be in japan, this might be a good warmup

 

This is starting to feel like a chinese taipei vs korea tournament.

 

The other opponents aren't that easy tbh, especially from SF onwards. His potential SF opponent,one was a junior Asian champion and won a S100 level title just last week and the other one is from China, and you can never underestimate a player from China regardless of the rank.

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SWH won 2 qualifier matches which both of his compatriots retired.. hmmm

 

Kevin Sanjaya seems still have the adrenaline and hunger in badminton... partnering new with Rahmat,,,
they play well as of now vs lee/yang, 16-9 G1.

 

G1 a wrap for Kevin/Rahmat a.k.a. Keramat... Actually today would be a tricky match vs Lee/Yang MDs... but they seem to able to control the match and attacking momentum in G1.

the real battle will be in SF and Final...

if they are able to win this tournament, I think Coach Aryono will consider making this new partnership as long as possible.

 

oh well, could not wrap a couple of game points in G2,,, now keramat is in danger,,, 1-5 g3

 

Kevin/rahmat just lacks power imo, and neither of them have the stamina to keeps firing smashes from the back. skill wise I think they're good, the rotation is pretty good as well, but in todays MD if you don't have enough power or if you don't have persistence to work from the back is hard to win.