Well, it's any indication, last week's MS & WS Denmark SS winners, Simon Santoso & Tine, have lost their matches. Let's see how far the other winners go
You didnt see my post on 'trend' kah? If KKK play until Semi for XD & MD, high % he will lose both. KKK usually win MD if he has lost his XD match earlier rounds.
They have to face Clark/Rob today, hard to predict !! Hard match for KKK in XD against China's Tao/Zhang..
Most probably KKK/TBH will face Boe/Morgenson in Semis. If KKK also plays XD in Semis, tough, as Boe/Morgenson will be looking for revenge from their Denmark finals lost. KKK will have to focus more on his MD, exert himself less in XD. That's why lor, I said trend is.......
He will loose his XD match today, won't he ? The chinese are seeded and Zhang Yawen is a very good player ( i've never heard of Jiaming Tao :/ )
wow, you know what, among the 4 players in the match, the 3 "famous" players KKK, WPT, ZYW have not won any super series title yet this year. in fact, KKK and WPT have never won super series title or 5 star open tilte yet in their whole life. And the guy you never heard of, Tao JM, actually won the China master super series title. He won it with partner Wang Xiaoli. I don't think TJM/ZYW is better than TJM/WXL. but China coaches always exercise their power by forcing players switching their partners.
Are u referring to SS title in XD only? Remember that Koo/Wong only partner occasionally in XD and yet they still manage to win a World Championships Bronze Medal in 2006 Both Koo and Wong have won a couple of SS titles in MD and WD respectively.
you are right, I was talking about the XD only. becuase the original poster was talking about the XD between KKK/WPT vs TJM/ZYW. there's nothing to do with the MD and WD, we all know KKK is strong in MD and WPT was the #1 in WD. Anyhow, KKK/WPT have played together for quite long, and played a lot even they partner occasionally. For TJM and ZYW, they just began to play together a week ago. Therefore, I was comparing their XD records individually, not for the 2 pairs. The fact is that KKK has not won XD with anyone else. Nor has WPT. ZYW hasn't won any in the past year either. Only TJM did won a super series. I just realized that not many people have won the XD super series. If we count from the all England open this year, here are the winners: All england: ...He HB/Yu Yang Swiss: ..........Zheng Bo/Ma Jin Singapore: ....Zheng Bo/Ma Jin Indonesia: .....Zheng Bo/Ma Jin China Master: Tao Jiaming/Wang Xiaoli Japan: ..........Songphon A/Kunchala V Denmark: ......Joachim Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen The XD is the most unpredictable event, except there have been some Zheng Bo dominating era (either with Zhang Jiewen, Zhao Tingting, Gao Ling or Ma Jin). Zheng Bo used to win a lot continuously and then suddenly collapsed at some point.
Yeah, the thing is, other than China fans, many will not be familiar with Tao, myself included. As many also are not familiar with some Msian players like Chan Peng Soon/Lim Khim Wah, Mohd Lufti/Lim Yin Loo. I think Thom_bad was just replying my post. I have watched how KKK play XD with NHL (he did not partner WPT for a long, long time). KKK does not seem to go all out in XD as compared to MD, which leads many of us to conclude he conserve energy for MD. + KKK wins MD titles when he doesnt play XD at all or lose earlier stages KKK just started re-partner WPT again during Denmark SS, for good. NHL re-partnered with her WJC partner LKW. Sudirman CUp KKK/WPT partnership was ..... temporary, supposed that time KKK partner NHL. And all of this is part of analysis that our narnia started on whether KKK/TBH can 2 SS titles in a row for this edition.
