Lin Dan playing rookie Chong Yee Han with no intensity, his usual 'lazy' controlled game, not even smashing much nor hard.
When XS comes back after a few months he should adopt LD's style to sharpen his skills further first, do minimum smashing and no jump smash until he has fully recovered. Tokyo 2020 is still a long time away and he still has 2024.
Indian MS nightmare continues. A good performance from Prannoy though he lost, will give him confidence for the future. PV Sindhu needed this win badly. Will boost her morale. She has a tough match coming up. Saina Nehwal was clinical in her match. Jojo was watching quietly while Ginting Anthony was basking in the limelight. He is reminding everyone that he also a good player!
I wonder why do players from USA participating in SSP tournaments. Don't they know this would be too strong for them?
A reversal of Korea-India uber cup match last week: SJH vs Sindhu Saina vs BYJ Last week the score is 1-1 for each country, maybe tomorrow will be the same, even though Sindhu chance to sping upset is higher than BYJ, by looking at their H2H is 3-4 in favor of SIndhu
Another fun fact : Praveen Jordan/ Debby Susanto face two exact same opponents as they did in previous All England, just in different order. They beat Kazuno/Kurihara here in R1, while they beat them in R2 All England They will face Danny/Vanessa here in R2, while they beat them in R1 All England Possible encounter with the same opponents for their rest of competition : ZN/ZYL in QF, Liu/Bao in SF, and Joachim/Pedersen in Final
Oh no. I hoped to see him play one of the big guns here in Malaysia. A loss for the tournament. Wonder what injury / illness he picked up :/
Setiawan/Ahsan were having tough opening game with Liu/Li, before finally took the last straight 5 points to close the game.
