Thanks Kurako for this info. Nakanishi Yosuke answered my confusion quite well. I always felt Tsuneyama was sort of an intelligent player with good enough racket skills and shuttle placements but why couldn't he do more. Yes, it does look like he lacks power and speed. Also, I always thought Nishimoto has good enough power, speed , defence and attacks, long reach, height ... but why couldn't he do more. For his case, I did conclude that he has fears and negative thinking when the battle gets tense. So, it is quite close to what Nakanishi observed about his tendency to self destruct in a win-lose situation. I suspect that he has valid reasons for his fears. He knows that he could not think as fast as Momota although his body can move fast ... and also he is not as calm and patient as Momota. Maybe, his coaches can help him to find solutions.
Thank Kurako and you for analysis. Momota has talent, so that Nishimoto cannot play like Momota although at some stage he played "Momota's game". Sometimes when I watch Nishimoto playing, it seems to be he just played "safe", that can be a psychological problem. Just watch the match between Nishimoto and Stuneyama. Nishimoto won this match but this playstyle cannot help him to the final match. The red one is the court Nishimoto played, the yellow one will be the court Momota will play. My advice to Nishimoto will be: play slower and aim to the line. Training your footstep so hard.
Terry, you deserve a pat on your back. You're a good fan. It's easy to support top players like Momota, Sindhu, Ginting, TTY, others than supporting middle level players like Nishimoto, Tsuneyama, Prannoy, Sameer and others. Keep supporting him , will look forward to more of your posts.
Both Nishimoto and Tsuneyama are pretty fun to watch I think. It feels like, it wouldn't hurt Tsuneyama if he put on a few kgs of muslce. As far as I know, he's 60kg for 173cm. He doesn't need to put on that much, but by comparison, Kento Momota is reportedly 175 and 68kg. Tsuneyama is very quick, nimble and he has nice footwork I think. But, I think Kenta Tsuneyama really lacks the weapons to finish his rallies. You can only win that much playing mostly defense in this day and age. He's a bit like Tien Minh perhaps, for those of you that watched him a lot. But it feels like his smashes aren't shots that he gains anything from playing. And he's not like Momota in the way that...He feels like his shot selection is a bit too simple. Sure, he can play around with the rallies a lot. But it feels like he maybe doesn't surprise his opponent a lot. So not sure how he gets the points outside of simply being more stable than most people, a skill that is very good of course, otherwise his ranking wouldn't be what it is. Perhaps, if he improved his attacking game he could play similar to how Du Pengy was for a while, at least more in that direction.
The NBA has announced the list of players due to participate in the Badminton Asia Team Championships (February 11-16): MS Nishimoto Kenta Tsuneyama Kanta Watanabe Koki Naraoka Kodai WS Ohori Aya Takahashi Sayaka Yamaguchi Akane Gunji Riko MD Endo/Watanabe Hoki/Kobayashi Koga/Saito WD Nagahara/Matsumoto Fukushima/Hirota Shida/Matsuyama XD Hoki/Nagahara? Higashino is not listed. It is interesting to note that high schoolers Naraoka and Gunji are included. And also that Takahashi/Matsutomo are not; as far as they are concerned, the Race to Tokyo is over.
if there are points given for Asia Team Champ, then TakaMatsu will drop further behind the other 2 pairs. but they can still qualify if they perform much better in the other tournaments, right? unless they are not register to play.
The fact that they pulled out of the Thailand Masters and are not entered for the BAC Team Event is not a good omen. And more than 15,000 points separate them from the No. 2 pair, FukuHiro (who, incidentally don't have too many 'big points' to defend until the end of April). TakaMatsu really needed to do well in the Malaysia and Indonesia Masters to keep alive any hope of a place. Unfortunately, they failed to do enough.
Skills aside, I have watched NagaMatsu play live on a few occasions, and feel that they have the worst chemistry amongst all of the national team WDs. There seems to be very little in the way of communication between them, with Nagahara, in particular, reacting to her partner's errors with visible disdain. It makes for stressful watching.
TakaMatsu 's team work is better than matsumoto-nagahra's team work. But I have a feeling Matsumot-nagahara as individuals, they each posssesses good power, speed and creativity. If matsumoto-nagahara are chosen for Olympics, I hope they will work on improving their team work. If they improve their team work, they will be good. I think the Koreans exploit their ability to work smoothly as a team. It is not that they cannot work as a team but they must improve, communicate and become better.
this is a show of young or promising talents. In 2018, China didn't send Chen Long and Chen/Yifan, they will do the same this year. This is just a mickey event.
I've just heard Momota will skip India and Malaysia Open but not Singapore Open in April. How about German Open and All England in March ??? Does anyone have a schedule of the team ?
Nothing is clear at this stage, but if he makes a steady recovery, then, according to PJB: German Open: No All England: Yes
maybe because Okuhara is plotted to get gold in Tokyo 2020, to avoid injury and she did not need any olympic poin again?
The info has been circulating in social media couple of days ago, Momota will skip IND Open (S500), MAS Open (S750), INA Open (S1000) but taking part SGP Open (S500)?!
