As expected, Wang Xin lethal attacking play poses a formidable threat to all non-CHN opponents, only a few of her teammates know how to deal with her.
Taufik Hidayat's recent form and results are unrecognisable. If he still cannot get his act together, he might as well retire now to spare himself and INA further embarrassment, or at least take a break to regroup himself.
Cheng SC ousted by Sayaka Sato again by retiring in the 2nd set having lost the 1st. Looks like CSC recent excellent results are a flash in the pan. Usually late bloomers don't go very far unless they showed potential in their younger days and was set back by injury or something, eg Tine Baun.
CHEN jin already had enough of sasaki nightmare.. he wants to beat sasaki in front of his home crowd.
Of course, Lin Dan is always going to win against familiar opponents, except that he is bored, unmotivated and expects to win by sheer respect, just keeping the shuttle in play, content to move the opponent around the court, not pushing himself unless forced to up the tempo and inject pace when threatened with defeat. Only a handful of players can forced him out of his comfort zone, viz. Datuk Lee CW, Peter Gade, Sho Sasaki. Apart from Lee, I hope a new player - anyone from any country - will suddenly burst onto the international scene, start whacking all the top players one by one and create excitement in the badminton world; otherwise, it is always LD, Lee, LD,Lee... all too predictable and staid.
I was hoping to see WangSX-Cheng SC revenge match, but it's not to be - Sayaka took care of CSC. Next I hope to see Wang SX against Saina later.
At last Chen Jin overcomes Sho Sasaki after 3 consecutive losses previously. Let's see what happens should he advances to the QF and meets Lin Dan.
Bit worried about Fran/Pia and Rijal/Debby, with so close to OG, their results seem going downhill Rarely get past 1st rd in SS events
Wish him good luck, i think he wanted to try his luck in entertainments.....he sure has lots of girls fans out there...........!!!
