Kenichi Tago ( 田児賢一 )

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  1. george@chongwei

    george@chongwei Regular Member

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    yeah, this is weird.. maybe someone should ask some japanese players or officials next time;)
     
  2. george@chongwei

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    so he lost to du peng yu in 2 sets in the 2nd round of the swiss open... hmmmm;)
     
  3. Loafers

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    He probably partied too much after All England :rolleyes:
     
  4. dennisvanbekkum

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    i played with tago in malaysia and he doenst have the yonex logo on his racket because he string it with so mutch tension that he has to throw his racket away after using once!! so no need to put in the logo!!

    bad publicity for yonex!!
     
  5. Destricto_Ense

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    Yeah, for the whole one day break he got between the AE final and SO first round, give me a break.
     
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    It was a joke directed towards Lin Dan fanboys who said almost the same thing when Lin Dan lost to Peter Gade :)
     
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    Heh, all right... LD fanboys deserve all the stick they can get :p
     
  8. LD rules!

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    I don't understand, what tension is he using ? Also, it's not just Tago that doesn't have the paint on the strings, it's most if not all the JPN players
     
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    In that case, he should just switch Dink's Ultra. Proven rackets at uber tensions. :p
     
  10. LD rules!

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    just wondering, is KT using NBG98 ?? I noticed the gold of the strings, I am just wondering.
    Also anyone found out the reason why the JPN players don't have the YY logo on the strings ?
     
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    Are you joking or something ?
    Do you mean a top player string himself his racquets ?
     
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    If their racquets are re-strung onsite by tourney stringers, stringers won't have time to imprint the YY logo on the stringbed.

     
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    Then why do the others teams (Mas,Ina,Dk,etc) have the logo ?
    I bet they also give their racquets to the tourney stringers
     
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    Read on a Japanese forum that he uses NBG98 and bg66 (also comes in cosmic-gold colour) at 35lbs.
     
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    Wooh 35 lbs !?!? :eek:
    he should be sooo powerful :D
     
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    I believe it's an exaggeration, 30-33lbs looks more likely. The NBG98 is a very stiff feeling string, and to me feels even stiffer than the BG80 (Thomas Laybourn uses BG80 at 36lbs by the way).

    If not then Tago would have had the strength to punch holes through all of our stomachs :eek:

    Kyokushin Karate anyone :cool:
     
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    *dreaming of Tago punching Ld's head at ABC final* :D
     
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    That would be a great match to watch, although definitely NOT LITERALLY speaking :D

    Tago has a bright future, and Lin Dan sure will still be fighting to the end of his marvelous career.
     
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    Apparently he used BG66 at 35lbs at the WJC in 2007.. o.o

    I feel that thicker strings feel harder to play with at high tension than thin strings like the zymax62, bg66m, rsl superti630, etc..
     
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    What the FRICK? 35 pounds... that's insane. He must never ever mishit the slightest bit off center... And they're 66's, not 65's. Unless he used a very different method of stringing. I hear in China they use a very non-orthodox method that supposedly requires very high tension but ends up being normal (to our standards). I don't really know, since I'm not well-acquainted with the techniques of stringing.
     

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