that's how i saw it too. i think she was having too much fun beating up Saina in the first game and lost track of her stamina. if it doesn't kill you it will only make you stronger. hopefully this will be a good lesson learned for her.
why would she go all out and risk injury a few weeks before OLY in a tournament which doesn't count? For WSX, yes, I think she did go all out.
The coaching staff will make damn sure this is the case. I have to say her overhead shots surprisingly let her down in the final. Because Saina decided to lift rather that play LXR at the net, she had an extraordinarily amount to overhead shots execute. After a while it must get tiring. I should count how many went into the net or out.
agree, it makes no sense. but that's also what happened in the match against WYH. she was playing a really fast game. which brings up to something funny. maybe she is still thinking about 1st game take all, and lost focus on the 2nd/3rd games against Saina.
Did you watch the match? I can only give you my opinion based on what I saw, and it was an all-out effort by LXR.
Yea, I did. I thought she was nonchalant. But it's ok. We can disagree on this. No problem. But I think WSX went all out. Her match against Saina was epic.
Wa! How can u miss that!!! [video=youtube;F5n9gVg4g8c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5n9gVg4g8c[/video]
i missed a very important point. of course they will go all out. they want to go to London and beating Saina convincing would buy most of the ticket.
Did u mean WSX? WSX was fighting for her life in the match against Saina. If she wins against Saina, at least there might still be a slight chance she can go to London. If she loses, she knows she might end up like Zhu Lin. WSX didn't care about injury, fatigue, blah, blah and blah.
I haven't seen it, but sometimes Nonchalance or relaxed play is a sign of tiredness. It is common it young players to blow them selves out at the beggining of matches. It is very tiring to control a game, and if the other player does little because she is just picking up the shuttle they will still be fresh. Stamina comes with age.
Here u go. LXR vs Nehwal. [video=youtube;zr-wzYKnRPI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr-wzYKnRPI[/video]
I tend to agree with pcll99, only WSX went all out as she was the one who needed most to prove herself, and that match would be enough for CHN to gauge Saina's state of readiness and overall condition. For WSX,only a convincing performance can score important points for her London bid, it's almost like a do or die for her. The other three,like the rest of the Olympians Chen Jin and Chen Long, not necessary nor want to risk injury. It also partly explains why all three WS had close calls with certain opponents, WX vs CSC, WYH vs TB, and LXR vs PB. And if LXR went all out in the match,then the sudden loss of form between G1 and 2/3 in one and the same match was puzzling. Another strange point was Zhang Ning's (and Xia Xuanze for the MS as well) conspicuous absence in the tournament. As for WYH - LXR SF match, they could play freely as it wouldn't matter who they met in the final, Saina or Sung, since it has no bearing on OG qualification. As for one-game policy between CHN players sometimes, that thought shouldn't crossed LXR's mind as CHN players aren't conditioned to play that way against foreigners. Nonchalance a sign of fatigue,I feel,is also less likely as LXR is known to fight even better in the decider. All in all,I suspect CHN was treating the INA Open as a pre-Olympic warm-up and to study their competitors without revealing too much of their own preparation. Let's not forget,players like Sho Sasaki, Lee Hyun Il, Shon Wan Ho,etc, also exited early in the tournament.
I agree it is likely CHN players will be treating IO, SO as warm up. You often get strNge results shortly after a qualifying period and before big tournaments.
Are some of you guys suggsting that LXR didn't know if she was playing a China player or a non-China player? Is that the reasoning for the first-game-winner-takes-all theory offered for the finals match? Or maybe she was blinded by the lights? Or maybe she wasn't aware that she still had a coach in her corner, meaning it was not a CHN-CHN match?
