Prannoy is injured. But I still think he should have played, retired if needed. even the current KS have had higher chance against WHY than MM.
The body language of Chinese players and crowd right now is giving me vibes of Sudirman cup 2011 match bw India and China in Qingdao.
MM needs to have good height and length on the clears. Weng's overhead is lethal when not pushed to the doubles backline
I'll hazard a guess, perhaps the CHN coaches think WHY of late is in better form than LGZ - remember how WHY beat HS Prannoy in their last encounter - or in the team selection process they feel that WHY can handle pressure better than LGZ; as we know, in the fifth tiebreaker, just as in the MS3 when 0-2 down in the tie, it's a do or die situation.
Sun Jun and Zia Xuanze in the China coaching corner. Sun Jun doing most of the talking though Xia should be the more senior coach.
I think MM might be using a slight panhandle grip for his defence - that's making him slightly slower for the backhand defence. He's been caught quite a few times on the fast smash to his backhand
He's playing above his usual level, hence all those things you mentioned but that grip isn't helping.
Who is this commentator? She doesn't bring any insight to the matches and just says the most obvious things like "Wow what a great rally" over and over and she just said the men emulated China Women's who won the gold earlier today.... She's horrible lol
doesn't seem to really know the game too well. Kept saying Game point opportunities when it was match point on numerous occasions and saying certain player were dictating the rallies when it was so far from the truth.
Don't think can agree on the "above his usual level" part. He may not be on par with WHY but he has done better than this in the past, dragging top players to 3 sets before running Outta steam
Also from Manjunath. Exact same situation happened with ASY and Marin and he didn't get salty that WHY didn't shake hands first
