He (Lee) had better do something about his mental discipline judging from the newspaper article. During major tournaments such the World Championships and AE, he'd be up against opponents who may not be better than him, but has superior mental control. There will be matches where he will be stretched to the limits and at the end of the day, whoever that could keep their mind focused the task best, will win. Reminds me of people like Yang Yang and Hendrawan who have an almost super-ice mentality that is hard to break. Park Sung-hwan is just 17? Hmm...
Lee TS is definitely the better player at the moment. His main problem is still the inconsistency in his form.... he could beat the world no 1 today, but lose the world no 100 the next day. Was quoted in Malaysian dailies that he has doubt in Misbun's training method before the Elite Challenge, which resulted in his poor performance. How true is this statement??
Oh Yap! Malaysia MD head coach Yap Kim Hock made a critical decision for not fielding Chan/Chew and Lee/Choong head to head against Ha/Kim and Lee/???. Wasn't it the purpose of this friendly tune-up matches between the Koreans and the Malaysians, to guage the preparation of WC bound players in MS as well as MD? The Koreans had certainly found out there are works need to be done on MS department but certainly not the Malaysian double players as Lee/Choong and Chan/Chew did not have chance to engage with the world #1. Lets pray the Malaysians pairs do not meet the Koreans in early round and lose miserably or else coach Yap will be in deep **** and deservely so.
Video availalble Just got the video of MS between Roslin Hashim and Shon SM. Quite an exciting match to watch and these two players should do OK in WC based on their current form. If you wish to purchase this video(or any badminton related video), contatc me at han_cheong@yahoo.com. Offer good for US and Canada region only. Thanks Han
