KN can attack too, but that's not his forte as he usually does so when he anticipates your lifts and clears
I am not convince that SYQ is able to smash all the way until the end of G3. It has been a long time since he had been in this kind of situation.
Maybe, that's why he has to conserve energy. Oops, sorry, I thought you're referring to SYQ. As for KN, hard to say, because aggressive players mostly dread playing a highly consistent retriever. In my opinion, KN has yet to reach peak Momota's consistency in shotmaking or we may never know when he's going to cause a sensation , if not this tournament , then the next few.
Who knows? People thought LZJ will beat LSF easily at Thailand Open, but LSF almost beat LZJ easily. CHN players are hard to beat for LZJ.
SYQ lucky escape, KN a bit impatient to smash into the net and then SYQ was smart enough to play away from the net by lifting to KN's back corner to elicit that final error.