winning major tournaments which i can't recall which ones are considered major by China national team it's either HBJ got all stars.. or none at all if looking at Olympics being a mojor
Congratulations to He Bingjiao for winning the KOR Open'19 WTS500 WS crown, beating Intanon Ratchanok in the final. I must admit He Bingjiao was somewhat lucky to survive G2 when 4 matchpoints down and even went on to force the decider and win it. Still, it's heartening to see her demonstrating dogged determination and tenacity to fight to the bitter end. This tournament victory after a title drought of about three years should prove a psychological boost to her self-confidence and instill a sense of inner belief in her going forward. Let's hope we can see her scale new heights henceforth, her last breakthrough in her career was in 2016 when, barely 20 years of age, she captured three titles in a row within two months, namely, the Japan Open Superseries, the French Open Superseries, and the Bitburger Grand Prix Gold.
If I may humbly say so, I wish to see He Bingjiao improve in two areas: 1) strengthen her lower body to increase her speed a little more and enable her to recover quickly from her low-bending position when retrieving a drop-shot or a late net shot, not to mention continuing to build her stamina further; and 2) learn to better cover her deep backhand corner (right-side) which appears to be her vulnerability.
A lot were on the line for HBJ, especially after she eliminated CYF. Glad that she pulled it off. Asking for permission to throw her rackets into the stand was cute.
Indeed, lucky escape that Intanon committed unforced errors successively and she didn't challenge at position 23-22 as the shuttlecock looked IN.
This is a year for "the first time" in top 10 SW First is Sung Ji Huyn, the first title in HSBC tour. Second is Yamaguchi with the first back-to-back title. Third is Sindhu with the first gold medal in world championship. Forth is He Binjiao with the first title in HSBC tour. The more "first time" will come at the end of this year. Congrats Binjiao, "the courteous panda" ^-^
He Bingjiao never learns, her deep backhand corner (on her right-side as she's a lefty) is still a glaring weakness. She would do well to study Momota's game and learn to cover her deep backhand corner well so that it is not often exploited by her opponents now and then forcing her to turn her back to play the backhand, for which her usual reply is to tap it just over the net predictably, opening herself to attack as it is easily anticipated by most of her opponents. How often do we see Momota turn his back to play a backhand shot? Hardly, even on the few occasions when he's forced to in a match, he still executes it well enough without giving much away. Best is to always anticipate the opponent's shot to that deep backhand corner such that you can play the return shot facing it with better control and accuracy. Apparently, Li Mao in the first few weeks of his joining CBA is concentrating on coaching the CHN MS. I hope he finds time to train the CHN WS soon, specifically help He Bingjiao to resolve her problems.
Indeed, IMO she's more skillful than Chen YF. She's faster than before when underwent some physical test yesterday. He BJ to local netizen haters : Stop call me Fat Jiao!
too little fat, look at the hand. I hope she is fine. Lost weight is good to get more stamina, but the fat was lower than normal is not good.
Wow...looks like she's taking this more seriously... following the physical transformation of TTY in 2016. She's got great racket skills, but always out of stamina when the pace turns up a notch by the end of the second game, and if she has to play the rubber game, she's toast. Not anymore... Sent from my SM-G988W using Tapatalk
Will be interesting to see if they have managed to find the right middle ground between losing weight and yet still preserving the previous power level. There is always a high risk to lose too much muscle mass along with the fat. If she maintained her overall strength and simply lost those 8 kg, she should be a serious contender for the top rankings in the future.