I see many and exciting emerging power trending based on the few SS tournaments post the England 2012 Olympic:
MS :
Post LCW, LinDan, Taufik and Peter Gade era, I have been impressed with the landscape where emerging young players from India's Parupalli, Malaysia's Daren and Danish players like Jan O Jorgensen and Viktor Axelsen are becoming a regular contenders when LCW, LinDan are nowhere around.
The Ranking I think is still in this order:
CHN, then the rest (all countries: MAS, INDIA, DENMARK, HONGKONG/SOUTH KOREA/JAPAN -- I am not impressed with Indonesia at all: the players are already too old and too late if they never won SS).
WS:
I am really impressed with THA ladies. They are young, agile and can go head-to-head with CHN. CHN is not a power-house in this category. CHN, THA, GERMANY's Juliane, TAIPEI and INDIA's Saina dominate here. (No Indonesia ladies at all)
MD:
I am pretty certain the SOUTH KOREA will dominate. The Koreans pairs shuffled post Jung Jae Sung's retirements surprisingly rise to the top and won 2 SS already.
No any other CHN pairs will dominate after CY/FHF.
KOREA is on top and they will win most of the SS, then DENMARK. After those 2 countries, the rest are JAPAN, CHN and INDONESIA and they will only win the GP tournaments.
XD:
CHN is still the best in this category. I am disappointed with the top 2 Indonesian pairs. They both lost to CHP/LYG. This Malaysian pair is making the news nowadays.
The ranking for XD : CHN, then INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, DENMARK.
WD:
CHN is still on top. They seems to have new pairs that rise to the top and dominate the event so quickly.Ma Jin is a monster. She is the XD/WD top specialist over powering Zhao YunLei now.
The ranking for WD: CHN then DENMARK, JAPAN.
Please chime in with your opinions.
Thanks.
MS :
Post LCW, LinDan, Taufik and Peter Gade era, I have been impressed with the landscape where emerging young players from India's Parupalli, Malaysia's Daren and Danish players like Jan O Jorgensen and Viktor Axelsen are becoming a regular contenders when LCW, LinDan are nowhere around.
The Ranking I think is still in this order:
CHN, then the rest (all countries: MAS, INDIA, DENMARK, HONGKONG/SOUTH KOREA/JAPAN -- I am not impressed with Indonesia at all: the players are already too old and too late if they never won SS).
WS:
I am really impressed with THA ladies. They are young, agile and can go head-to-head with CHN. CHN is not a power-house in this category. CHN, THA, GERMANY's Juliane, TAIPEI and INDIA's Saina dominate here. (No Indonesia ladies at all)
MD:
I am pretty certain the SOUTH KOREA will dominate. The Koreans pairs shuffled post Jung Jae Sung's retirements surprisingly rise to the top and won 2 SS already.
No any other CHN pairs will dominate after CY/FHF.
KOREA is on top and they will win most of the SS, then DENMARK. After those 2 countries, the rest are JAPAN, CHN and INDONESIA and they will only win the GP tournaments.
XD:
CHN is still the best in this category. I am disappointed with the top 2 Indonesian pairs. They both lost to CHP/LYG. This Malaysian pair is making the news nowadays.
The ranking for XD : CHN, then INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, DENMARK.
WD:
CHN is still on top. They seems to have new pairs that rise to the top and dominate the event so quickly.Ma Jin is a monster. She is the XD/WD top specialist over powering Zhao YunLei now.
The ranking for WD: CHN then DENMARK, JAPAN.
Please chime in with your opinions.
Thanks.
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