It's the fact that China need to upset for them to be In the final across all discipline except XD, in the home soil is worrying signs. Surely something need to be done
As long as minions don't take their game easy against unseeded. They like to lose against 'easier' opponents
So unnecessary, just makes minions more determined to get the hat trick this year to really upset them!
Lack of good talents and others have tremendous development. Rio OG 2016 had signalled that China domination began to decline, from 2012 London clean-sweep to two gold medals only. Nothing surprise as China also experienced a similar situation in early 90's to Millenium era until Lin Dan, Cai/Fu generation emerged to grab Thomas Cup for the first time after 14 years time lapse in 2004.
It won't be easy but still the winner is Kento Momota at the end. Shi YQ isn't enough ready yet to be CHN number one, he seems so stressful all the time.
By other interested parties, I'm alluding to say betting agencies, like the recent MAS case involving players and 'outsiders'. Camilla Martin is not involved directly, and if she couldn't beat any player, she didn't deserved to be champion. All coaches used whatever strategy allowed to maximise their players chances of winning. The JPN runs a different system where the players are club-based and they worked for their clubs/companies. Like I said, allegations are allegations. Sure what happened in the past can be repeated in the future, like doping, match-fixing, but there are rules in place and reporting outlet for whistleblowers to allow BWF to follow up with investigations. The culprits can be any country but you choose only to point out one suspect as if nobody else were doing it, and we know the reason why many don't is because they don't have the luxury of enough top-notch players to strategise their gameplan. And I've asked for recent examples of any country doing that (I won't be baited into giving names), instead of continuing to flog a dead horse by zeroing in on just one country. Like I said, BWF is there to catch violators of any rules, such as the London'12 six WD pairs from three different countries 'not playing to one's best capacities'. By the way, the Olympic qualification criteria have changed, restricting the quota to max two players/pairs per nation but it was done mainly for a different motivation than what you insinuated, a topic which has been much discussed and debated before, so I won't revisit it. Meaningless and serves no useful purpose here. Anyway, enough said, I'm more interested in the present and the future. Let the sore losers continue living in the past. For now, let's watch some fine badminton going on at the China Open semifinals. Enjoy.
I too doubt Shi Yuqi is ready to take on Momota yet, He sounded a bit self-defeating yesterday, that's not a good sign
Chou Tien Chen is a very intelligent player , and extremely fit too.I think he can handle AG this time but it'll be close, I feel.
Again...CTC did it. If you can challenge AG at the net, he'd be a bit wary and tentative of playing too many net shots. With fewer tight nets, he'd have to lift and drive more, and that allows CTC to create more attacking opportunities for himself
