Indonesia Open 2006 - CHN Entry List

No lin dan..?
No Cai/Fu?

 

Are these the reserve players? But i believe they have the power.

 

Hmm, looking at the list of CHN's players, most of them are "reserves". Only 1 WD pair are their "1st stringers"(well, if you want to call them 1st string) : YangW/ZhangJW...hmm, wonder why CTF is not participating..

 

Err...Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen is a first team pair.

 

Looks like CHN is fielding their "2nd string players/pairs"..

hmmm, well, could be...how abt Gao Ling/Zhang Jun??..aren't they still playing??aren't their ranking higher than XZB/ZYW??.. http://www.internationalbadminton.org/worldranking.asp..
if the former are ranked higher, then i would still consider them the "1st string pair"...on that note, then based on the latest ranking, i correct myself as YW/ZJW are "2nd stringers"...

 

too bad lin dan is not in this tournament...@.@

 

Well..depends on your definition of "first-stringer". If your definition is based on only 1 player/pair per discipline as a "first-stringer", then Xie Xingfang is also a "2nd stringer". In addition, Luluk/Alvent and Markis/Hendra are all "2nd stringer" since Candra/Sigit is still ranked above them.

I think China's first team consists at least 2-3 double pairs in the various disciplines. For WD, I would consider Gao Ling/Huang Sui, Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen and even the 3 other pairs such as Du Jing/Yu Yang, Wei Yili/Zhang Yawen, and Zhang Dan/Zhao Tingting as the first team. For XD, it would be Zhang Jun/Gao Ling and Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen (and perhaps Zheng Bo/Zhao Tingting). For MD, it would be Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng and Guo Zhendong/Xie Zhongbo.

The 2nd stringers would be young pairs such as Shen He/He Hanbin (MD), Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei (WD), Pan Pan/Feng Cheng (WD), Shen Ye/Pan Pan (XD), etc

 

i think u can tell the second stringers and the third/juniors by the colours of the words on the back of their shirts. in the china masters or whichever one they had where no-one turned up they had the normal first team with black writing, and then they had blue and red for the others i believe....

 

i'm doubtful that china men (except bao chun lai) will go further in indonesia open

 

hmm, sure, those player are "arguably" in the 1st team(very hard to separate because they are basically "equal" in talent and IBF ranking, ie. XXF and ZN and GL/HS & YW/ZJW; and maybe even, like other mentioned, by the the colours of their name on their shirt).
However, personally, i would consider a player/pair as "1st string" based on:
1. The IBF world ranking..
2. Who do the CHN coaching staff put out there in the top team events, ie. Sudirman Cup or Thomas/Uber Cup(if there are no injuries)...
As for Candra/Sigit, uhm, i think they no longer are the INA 1st MD pair, esp. after Candra left..