Even if NTY lose today, I would say MAS will have another Lee Zii Jia and Leong Jun Hao caliber talent.
As expected Purva is physically very weak as compared to these other girls, even though she has a "good enough" all around game (by GS standards) her physicality always lets her down. Also, she unfortunately had a really tricky R1, her opponent of today has defeated PC thulasi before and has dragged Chaiwan to a nail bitter.
I felt that pearly is quite a promising player judging from how she play in the finals against china. She was quite aggressive and sharp at the net, her rear court smashes were pretty sharp as well. And not to mention she is quite pretty too LOL
Give him a chance to redeem himself in the individual match, I feel that he has talent but was just overly anxious in the finals, resulting in all the unnecessary mistakes at the net
Hopefully Malaysia fares well in the individual match. My overall impression was that the female players are more reliable than the male players
Day 3 : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...B05F2B-40D6-456F-8DD8-D91F0EA12DE7&d=20171018 Round of 32 Matches Highlights: • Lee Chia Hao [3/TPE] vs Gao Zhengze [CHN] • Lin Chun Yi [TPE] vs Kodai Naraoka [4/JPN] • Li Shifeng [CHN] vs Lakshya Sen [2/IND] • Pattarasuda Chaiwan [1/THA] vs An Se Young [KOR] • Park Ga Eun [KOR] vs Choirunnisa [16/INA] • Shin Tae Yang/Wang Chan [KOR] vs Krishna Prasad Garaga/Dhruv Kapila [3/IND] • Ng Wan Win/Tan Sueh Jeou [MAS] vs Baek Ha Na/Lee Yu Rim [2/KOR] • Feng Yanzhe/Chen Yingxue [CHN] vs Ng Eng Cheong/Toh Ee Wei [9/MAS] • Man Wei Chong/Tan Sueh Jeou [MAS] vs Thom Gicquel/Vimala Heriau [6/FRA]
Debora Jille/Alyssa Tirtosentono defeated 13rd seed from Japan, Rin Iwanaga/Natsu Saito 21-11, 23-21 Another Japan GD pair lost to 8th seed from Taipei, Li Zi Qing/Teng Chun Hsun 21-19, 21-16 No more GD pair from Japan left in Round of 16.
Good run for the French MS. Their three players, seeded 11, 14 and 15 all got to the round 5. But they face serious opponents today, so today will tell if they truly perform well. In WS, the performance is not as good as the ladies lost yesterday. But they had to face strong opposition (Korea mainly and India). In MD, one pair is still alive today, facing a Japanese pair, while another pair lost to another Japanese opponent yesterday. The same can be tell for WD, one pair is still alive at round 4, facing Taipei today. In XD, the best pair lost yesterday to a Malaysian pair. Overall a good showing. An interesting feature of the team is that everyone except in MS players are engaged in both singles and doubles. I don't know if other team specialize their players as late as that.
Their impressive performance after their amazing team event. I would say France ahead of Denmark in junior preparation. Surely in the upcoming 5-6 years the rising stars will come from France.