Lin Dan losing in the first round of two consecutive tournaments is disappointing for any badminton-fan. His current world ranking has dropped to nr 4. He only has 10 tournaments towards that ranking so he will lose points for his QF finish in Japan open and also from his win in Chinese Taipei open. So if he does not play anymore before the WC he will lose about 12000 ranking points. Then he will be the third ranked Chinese player after WZM. If so he might end up in the same half of the WC draw as Chen Long with a 50-50 possibility of LCW also being in the same half of the draw. Having the three best players in the same half of the draw is not good for the sport. Did LYB not think about this?
i am sorry but those two tourneys are after WC not before.
I am sorry, I screwed up my analysis then.
Lin Dan losing in the first round of two consecutive tournaments is disappointing for any badminton-fan. His current world ranking has dropped to nr 4. He only has 10 tournaments towards that ranking so he will lose points for his QF finish in Japan open and also from his win in Chinese Taipei open. So if he does not play anymore before the WC he will lose about 12000 ranking points. Then he will be the third ranked Chinese player after WZM. If so he might end up in the same half of the WC draw as Chen Long with a 50-50 possibility of LCW also being in the same half of the draw. Having the three best players in the same half of the draw is not good for the sport. Did LYB not think about this?
I think so for the first two but 3, 4 and so on is randomDo we have a nationality separation for the first two ranked players of a nation?
Its pretty clear that he doesn't try very hard when he plays anymore...
Difference being that LCW had no choice in the matterLin Dan still world number 4 after the latest WS rankings whereas LCW dropped 33 places to 79.
Srikanth is not the king... yet. I put Kento Momota instead.the four would be the current 4 kings eh HAHAHA