Taufik Hidayat

[Krisna]

if I am not mistaken, in those era China didnot send out to compete in international tournament

That's their own fault... They un-invited themselves to All England and Thomas Cup [that were there even before the existence of Chinese badminton]... INA never ran away from competition that could have proved who were the best. For whatever reason, CHN did...

[Thom_bad]

Easy first rounds for Taufik against qualifiers..

[PoLLuX]

Taufik's comment about Seleknas (in Bahasa)

Taufik Kritik Proses Seleksi Pemain Nasional
Narayana Mahendra Prastya - detiksport

Yogyakarta - Taufik Hidayat membenarkan ada beberapa hal yang berjalan tidak bagus di pelatnas, salah satunya soal seleksi pemain nasional. Menurutnya proses seleksi berlangsung tidak fair.

"Betul sekali itu ada. Yang paling fatal kemarin ada seleksi nasional tunggal putri. Ada junior saya dari Bandung, juara seleknas tidak dipanggil. Dia juara. Buat saya itu aneh," kata Taufik dalam jumpa pers Milo School Competition 2010 di komplek Stadion Kridosono, Yogyakarta, Jumat (9/4/2010) siang WIB.



full article
http://www.detiksport.com/read/2010/...emain-nasional

[george@chongwei]

Please provide the english translation.

[ye333]

google translate:

Taufik's comment about Seleknas (in Bahasa)

Critics Taufik National Player Selection Process
Mahendra Narayan Prastya - detiksport

Yogyakarta - Taufik Hidayat justify some things were not good at running pelatnas, one of them about the selection of national players. According to the selection process took place is not fair.

"Damn it exists. The most fatal yesterday there was a national selection of single women. There is my junior from Bandung, seleknas champion was not called. He's a champion. For me it was weird," Taufik said in a press conference at the 2010 Milo School Competition Kridosono Stadium complex, Yogyakarta, Friday (9/4/2010) noon GMT.

[jojandy]

I just checked and realized that Taufik lost once again, this time to Hsuan Yi Hsueh. I'm asking myself why I'm still looking for his performance nowadays. He should retire as soon as possible before he gets defeated by other low-level players...

[Thom_bad]

I agree with you. He should pay attention to keep
his honor safe.

[sting1988]

cause he's giving people a chance to break through since we all know Taufik is the best! All eyes on Taufik at Asia games muhahahaha the sleeping dragon shall rise again!

[alvisiny]

what's wrong with Taufik Hidayat ...
very easy to lost with Lin dan ?

[naistav]

what's wrong with Taufik Hidayat ...
very easy to lost with Lin dan ?

He was unable to keep up with LD pace and power. Tactical alone failed to help since LD also smart and less-error

[Luking]

As he himself said, he is no more like he was a few years ago. Watching his video's at that time confirms this in terms of speed and power. I wonder if there is a way for him to return to his golden level. It looks he has to reduce his weight a few pounds and train his smash power.

[alvisiny]

He was unable to keep up with LD pace and power. Tactical alone failed to help since LD also smart and less-error

lin dan smashed very fast ... but i think taufik skill still good ,,, but his age already 29 , and Lin dan still 27 . i saw taufik very tired play with Lin dan .

[Flexsis]

lin dan smashed very fast ... but i think taufik skill still good ,,, but his age already 29 , and Lin dan still 27 . i saw taufik very tired play with Lin dan .

Actually in the 2nd Game, I could tell LD was pretty tired

[RSLvictorSOTX]

LD 27 and TH 29 respectively, they are still at the peak of their powers. Awesome!

Professional athletes in general hit the point of no return at 31 (for men). Before 31, it's called hitting their plateaus.

After 31, they just have to play w smarts and impose their tactical and technical prowess (if the opposition hasn't catch up yet). Otherwise, they'll have to retire because once the speed and power aspects of their game leaves them, it's gone.

Reason older guys getting more mileage is really due to the oppositions quality, thereby, older guys who's still in the hunt simply outclass their less experienced opponents.

Much like uncles toying w advanced level kids with their all corners clinics sans smash!

[Wong8Egg]

As he himself said, he is no more like he was a few years ago. Watching his video's at that time confirms this in terms of speed and power. I wonder if there is a way for him to return to his golden level. It looks he has to reduce his weight a few pounds and train his smash power.

I think Taufik still has a very decent smash power. The problem is that he couldn't recover quickly enough and LD countered most of his shots.

That was a pretty hopeless game as much as it seems. TH couldn't take advantage even at the net and he was out-gunned at all departments. Most of the points were from LD errors.

[twobeer]

I think Taufik still has a very decent smash power. The problem is that he couldn't recover quickly enough and LD countered most of his shots.

That was a pretty hopeless game as much as it seems. TH couldn't take advantage even at the net and he was out-gunned at all departments. Most of the points were from LD errors.

Taufik obviously had a bigger smash than Tago in their game (despite all the ARC-Z YY hype :-) ).. But it is also blatantly obvious that All the Chineese LN player have bigger smashes these days (LD,Bao,CJ,WZ).. If it is the strength and conditioning program or simply better rackets/strings is hard to know :-)

/Twobeer

[RSLvictorSOTX]

Taufik obviously had a bigger smash than Tago in their game (despite all the ARC-Z YY hype :-) ).. But it is also blatantly obvious that All the Chineese LN player have bigger smashes these days (LD,Bao,CJ,WZ).. If it is the strength and conditioning program or simply better rackets/strings is hard to know :-)

/Twobeer

The strings maybe?