FHF with his hammer smashes was a bit unfair.Oh and his left handedness.
I don't really believe playing with the left gives you any advantage past being unusual. Good players will be able to adapt and make it an even playing field again...
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I don't really believe playing with the left gives you any advantage past being unusual. Good players will be able to adapt and make it an even playing field again...
LjS4
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uhmmm....you quoting me?Fu/Cai thrashed both Setiawan and Ahsan up to ок 2012 Olympics...so did JJS/LYD. JJS never even played the Ahsan/Setiawan combination I believe. Take your goggles of, mate, Ahsan doesn't have even one OG medal
Misquote, sorry
But most left handed players are exceptionally very good when they are good. Take Lin Dan
I don't really believe playing with the left gives you any advantage past being unusual. Good players will be able to adapt and make it an even playing field again...
Fu/Cai thrashed both Setiawan and Ahsan up to ок 2012 Olympics...so did JJS/LYD. JJS never even played the Ahsan/Setiawan combination I believe. Take your goggles of, mate, Ahsan doesn't have even one OG medal
who trashed who in 2008 OG?
It was Kido/Setiawan not Ahsan/Setiawan
vozer here
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YOU HAVE TO STOP WITH THE KPOP GIFI'm so done already by tomorrow WS QF line-up!
all the queens and princesses will all come out snatching and slaying! I CAN'T!!!!
my wish for the semifinal is Princess Akane, Queen Tzu Ying, Empress Nozomi, and the one and only QUEEN Carolina.
and I'm pleasantly surprised by Anggia/Ni Ketut today, altho Lee/Shin isn't on form. I guess I underestimated them earlier.
INA has 4 reps in the QF and 3 of them are WD..what?!?!?!?
but tomorrow all of them will face tougher opponents, not to mention higher seeds, so I wish at least one of them can make it through, hopefully Greys/Apriani.
c'mon, let's get into formation gurlllsss! show 'em what y'all got
otherwise
I will start doing that as well......
Or Bao Chunlai or that Tse girl from Taiwan or Chong Wei Feng.....oh waitBut most left handed players are exceptionally very good when they are good. Take Lin Dan
Nice try mate. Ahsan probably wasn't even in the Top100 at the time
he got carried by Setiawan for the entire first year of their partnership too, lost them the All England vs Qiu/Liu single handedly Setiawan was absolutely exceptional. No doubt about that. Pretty unbelievable what he achieved with those partners. I also 'admit' that Cai/Fu mostly dominated him after 2008 because Kido got fatter and fatter and was pretty much worthless by 2011
Baddyforall
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Tomorrow 4 indians participate in quarterfinals , first of its kind.
I don't know about the outcome.
Saina vs Carolina
Sindhu vs Nozomi
Sai Praneeth vs Kento Momota
Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy/Aswini Ponnapa vs Zheng siwei/huang yaqiong
All are underdogs on paper.
Their h2h
Saina vs Carolina 5-4
Sai Praneeth vs Kento momota 2-0
Sindhu vs Nozomi 5-6
XD - 0-0
I don't know about the outcome.
Saina vs Carolina
Sindhu vs Nozomi
Sai Praneeth vs Kento Momota
Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy/Aswini Ponnapa vs Zheng siwei/huang yaqiong
All are underdogs on paper.
Their h2h
Saina vs Carolina 5-4
Sai Praneeth vs Kento momota 2-0
Sindhu vs Nozomi 5-6
XD - 0-0
Lacking penetration, no power from the back I'd say....wouldnt do great I think. They're both good enough from the back that they aren't a real weakness with a partner with a stronger smash, but if neither has a good smash it's problematic.
kevRon8
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Oh really? Well, they need marketable badminton players to develop the sport in Europe.
kevRon8
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I don't see any European country coming even close to Denmark tbh. Part of it is the lack of a base, if the ntl. coach gets these players at age 16-20 with all sorts of technical oddities and weaknesses it's hard to get much out of them...I saw parts of a few different matches from Europeans, and they all seem to have at least one area in their technique where they're just horribly sub-par compared to Top20 players. Mark Couljew, for example (lost to LD) has pretty limited overhead technique and bad movement to his forehand corner.
Also the German ntl. coaches aren't top-notch by international standards. WS is a joke, and MS was only ever Marc Zwiebler (who was severely limited at the international level by his weird and not very optimal technique), XD was just Fuchs/Michels, and don't even talk about WD
I don't know the exact reasons, but I would think that it's partly the lack of popularity and partly that the training of the elite players isn't quite optimal athletically, I saw a lot of gadgets and on-court drills in videos but not a lot of heavy weights and jump rope. The philosophy of coaches also seems to not deem weight training important from what I've heard or witnessed myself at a lower level. Quite interesting to me, since basic exercises such as the squat have a most significant carry-over to badminton.
Maybe Im wrong though
How can you know WS is a joke at that time? Schenk won one SuperSeries title and was former world #2. Overzier: in 2006 WC, she beat #4 seed Wang Chen and #9 Jiang Yanjiao before lost to Zhang Ning.
Saina Nehwal makes India love badminton as a thriving sport that somehow can compete with the popularity of cricket. I dunno pretty much about Schenk. For me, she seems forgotten outside the badminton fans and doesn't get too much respect in Germany unlike Saina in India.
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What do you mean "at that time", I was talking about now. The current top German WS player is Fabienne Deprez, gimme a break...she doesn't even train seriously half the time, honestly. That's what I meant. Schenk was pretty good for a non-Danish European player, but she was a sole exception and not actually part of the German training camp, choosing to train on her own a lot, and hiring Wong Chong Hann for that iirc. The German WS department is a bit of a joke, and has been for some time. Some even made half their career on looks alone
kevRon8
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Oh sorry i thought you meant during the mid-to-late 2000s.What do you mean "at that time", I was talking about now. The current top German WS player is Fabienne Deprez, gimme a break...she doesn't even train seriously half the time, honestly. That's what I meant. Schenk was pretty good for a non-Danish European player, but she was a sole exception and not actually part of the German training camp, choosing to train on her own a lot, and hiring Wong Chong Hann for that iirc. The German WS department is a bit of a joke, and has been for some time. Some even made half their career on looks alone
If I’m not mistaken, did Wong Chong Hann also make Marin to become incredible in 2015? Or was it a different coach?
@Yoji I believe everyone has players/countries they ardently support. But it really doesn't hurts to be objective, you know
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I think someone was the one not objective and being subjective instead. he can say KevinGideon is not the best but i think by the time he retires he will number WR1 for the longest time, alreay the first MD to retain AE in decades
. There are just way too many factors to list compared to what he cant achieve.- Status