A relatively quick and easy semifinal winning for KOR team to score 3-0 against TPE, all three matches were finished by straight-sets. MS1, Son Wan Ho def. Chou Tien Chen, 21-12 / 21-17 MD1, Le YD/Yoo YY def. Lee SM/Tsai CH, 21-10 / 21-13 MS2, Lee Dong Keun def. Hsu Jen Hao, 21-12 / 21-18
China has many talented Mens doubles, they could field Liu XL/Qiu ZH, or Chai Biao/Hong Wei, or Cai Yun/Fu HF, or Fu HF/Zhang Nan ... all are well established doubles. But instead, they sent Xu Chen / Zhang Nan, a totally scratch pair never played before. Why so confident like that? The only explanation is that Xu Chen/Zhang Nan have extremely high level in training. Otherwise, they won't do that.
LYB needs to get ZN into the MD rankings. Clearly this guy has talent. Being able to play with Xu Chen or Fu Haifeng. I'd love to see him play with Hong Wei as well.
CHN v MAS, 2-0. The unpredictable CHN scratch pair, Xu/Zhang defies the odd and delivered victory, def. Tan/Hoon, 14-21 / 21-15 / 21-10. A must win situation and very huge burden to Chong Wei Feng who will take on China ace Lin Dan.
Not bad, a surprise win by Xu Chen/Zhang Nan against TBH/HTH who were more error-prone esp in the rubber set.
TBH needs to play more maturely. He just a showboat all game long =\ I am not surprised they lost with that kind of attitude
MAS lost MD1 in a rubber and is now 2 down to CHN. Chong Wei Feng now faces a massive task to beat Lin Din in MS2.
Oops, I lost my streaming CCTV 5. Last count, LD leads 16-7. Looks like a hopeless cause for CWF as it is hopeless for me to revive my streaming.
Women's team Final line-up : CHN v KOR => http://www.incheon2014ag.org/Sports/BD/StartList?RSC=BDW400101&lang=en WS1, Li Xuerui v Sung Ji Hyun WD1, Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei v Chang Ye Na/Kim So Yeong WS2, Wang Shixian v Bae Yeon Ju WD2, Yu Yang/Wang Xiaoli v Jung Kyung Eun/Kim Ha Na WS3, Wang Yihan v Ko Eun Byeol
I counted 5 unforced errors from LD in the first set (there may have been more since I only saw a part of the first set). One was an easy smash that went into the net, one was a smash out, two were easy shots at the net, and the last was a baseline clear that went too long. I don't think LD is at his best but then again, he doesn't have to be against CWF.
Individual Draw out MS - http://www.incheon2014ag.org/Sports/BD/Draw/?RSC=BDM001000&lang=en WS - http://www.incheon2014ag.org/Sports/BD/Draw/?RSC=BDW001000&lang=en MD - http://www.incheon2014ag.org/Sports/BD/Draw/?RSC=BDM002000&lang=en WD - http://www.incheon2014ag.org/Sports/BD/Draw/?RSC=BDW002000&lang=en XD - http://www.incheon2014ag.org/Sports/BD/Draw/?RSC=BDX002000&lang=en
TO CWF's credit, LD is going all out smashing. LD isn't playing his defensive, rally style today. I think LYB and China's coaches told LD not to put China's reputation on the hook so they made LD play aggressive. If this were a GP or SS event, LD would probably play his defensive, rally style.
