hahaha, honestly, i was gonna mention that part but i forgot the link to the youtube clip so i gloss over it, hoping no one would bring it up are u my conscience? Ok, i will make amendment to my post to limsy. Limsy have to wait for his 13:28 minutes of fame since u had used up 1:32 minute in youtube already. Be patience my fren, it will come to u one day.
lol, that was news article “I hope my superiors can be more strategic in entering me in competitions. I played in so many tournaments in the second half of the year … I was in France, I was in China,” said Lin, who nonetheless praisedChoi for playing well. in the bolded part, do you know what he was trying to say?
ok, i try to explain for you: he was just tired because of two tournaments in the second half of the year. one was in france, the other at home. but not only tournaments, he had to travel a lot too.
Hmm, I think LD had to acknowledge that CHJ played well. If a player didn't play well, how could he beat even a tired LD? Media reporting false things? For the bolded part, he was saying that he competed in the French Open, and many other tournaments we don't know about in China, which might be the cause for wearing him out
france? but seriously, its obvious that his good results din´t come as easy as some fans might think. and it´s not easy for Lin Dan to handle expectations and pressure.
after 2005, LD losses are mostly from insignicant matches like: LD lost to lcw in 2008 Thomas cup SF but china won the TC afterward anyway. LD lost to lcw in 2007 sudirman cup but china won the Sudirman Cup anyway in 2006 asian game, LD lost to taufik in individual event but LD beat taufk in preliminary and team events
^^How about these "insignificant" matches??..^^ ..where LD laid down his racket: YONEX GERMAN OPEN 2006 - to Chen Hong CHINA MASTERS 2006 - to Peter Gade PROTON MALAYSIA OPEN 2006 - LD's infamous loss & meltdown to Dato LCW CHINA OPEN 2006 - to Bao Chun Lai PROTON MALAYSIA SUPER SERIES 2007 - to Park Sung-hwan WILSON SWISS OPEN SUPER SERIES 2007 - to Simon Santoso AVIVA OPEN SINGAPORE SUPER SERIES 2007 - to Boonsak Ponsana YONEX OPEN JAPAN SUPER SERIES 2007 - to Dato LCW FRENCH SUPER SERIES 2007 - to Bao Chun Lai CHINA OPEN SUPER SERIES 2007 - to Park Sung-hwan YONEX KOREA OPEN SUPER SERIES 2008 - LD's other infamous loss & meltdown to Lee Hyun Il YONEX ALL ENGLAND SUPER SERIES 2008 - loss (some would say "gift loss") to Chen Jin BADMINTON ASIA CHAMPIONSHIP 2008 - loss (some would say "gift loss") to Chen Jin YONEX SUNRISE HONG KONG OPEN SUPER SERIES 2008 - loss to Chen Jin WILSON SWISS OPEN SUPER SERIES 2009 - loss (some would say "gift loss") to Dato LCW DJARUM INDONESIA OPEN SUPER SERIES 2009 - to Chen Jin ..and recently EAST ASIAN GAMES 2009 - to none other than Choi Ho Jin
u have great memory chris. just for completeness, here are few more (some mentioned before) here are some i remembered. 2008 Thomas Cup - to datuk lcw 2007 Sudirman Cup - to datuk lcw 2006 asian game - to taufik in individual MS final 2005 All England - to chen hong 2005 WC - to taufik 2004 Athen Olympic - to Ronald Susilo i think LD lost to LHI one other time beside the 2008 Korea Open
Off topic-Unfortunately.. ..my memory only serves from the time i started in BC (late 2004). Anything before that, you should know better as i have no clue whatsoever, although i know LD had other losses. Here are some of his other "insignificant" matches (late 2004-2005): CHINA OPEN 2005 - to Chen Hong DJARUM INDONESIA OPEN 2004 - to Taufik Hidayat *hope you'll mark this page in your Favorite links for future reference.
For those who haven't watched LD-CHJ match, here you are. There are 4 parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IEBu0KcNpI
one small point i didn't mention before about CHJ because it doesn't alter the match result but if u look carefully, i say more than 75% of CHJ's serve is illegal, at shuttlelcontact, his top racket frame is higher than his service hand knuckles