Lets choose folks!! The nomination is 1.Lee Hyun Il 2.Lee Chong Wei 3.Taufik Hidayat 4.Lin dan 5.Chetan Anand 6.Joachim 7.Yu Hun 8.Park Sung Hwan 9.Boonsak 10.Marc Zwilber
Some of those names on the list are not worthy of the word "graceful". LHI and BCL are always smooooooooooooooth on the court. So relaxing to watch
Yang Yang Zhao Jianhua Morten Frost Rudy Hartono Lim Swie King Han Jian the players nowadays seem like struggling. faster games perhaps.
My vote will be to the shy, soft spoken, former 1980 All England Champion, Prakash Padukone. The gentlemen Prakash once quoted after beating his idol, the legendary Rudy Hartono in the 1980 Swedish Open 9-15, 15-12 and 15-1. “ I could have beaten him on ‘love’ in the last game, but I did not have the heart to do that to my Idol. So I ensured that he got one point before I beat him,” says Prakash, ever the gentleman.
Haha, with today's training methodologies I find it harder to classify MS players graceful. Current players maybe Bao... Or maybe I am not watching enough matches nowadays .
yeah. i actually find "graceful MS" an oxymoron. prove me wrong, but i have watched almost all the players listed so far, and none of them i can consider graceful. powerful, speed, smooth, accurate, some of them, yes. but graceful.... hardly.
so given the suggestions (!!!) listed so far, i think some of us might not have the proper understanding of the word graceful. let's start with the dictionary definition and go from there: