Amazing. He is the only Malaysian and only a few international players. Maybe his dad can select proper tournaments for a better exposure for him.
He could have been sent to US GPG and Canada GP... he might get points from this event, but he hasn't played anyone who plays tournaments regularly yet...
Playing in Russia Open , is he serious ?? This is even worse than a 3rd tier tournament. Zulfadli has gone so low now that he has to choose the easiest tournaments to play in these days, LOL .
2012 Russian Open GP: ZZ will be at the Semi-Finals . Tomorrow, Saturday 30-June, ZZ will be at the Semi-Finals. Here is the link: http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...5225D4-E4D2-47C6-A433-6F924CB0A105&d=20120630 Well Done ZZ !!! .
Good strategy for ZZ to enter into a tournament with a weak field. This will enable him to pick up some cheap and substantial ranking points.
2012 Russian Open GP: ZZ was defeated at the Semi-Finals . Minutes ago, at the Semi-Finals of the 2012 Russian Open GP, Kazumasa Sakai defeated ZZ, 16-21, 22-20, 22-20 in 68 minutes. It was a very close match. Progressive scores can be found here: http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/match.aspx?id=FD5225D4-E4D2-47C6-A433-6F924CB0A105&match=3 .
Kazasuma Sakai is higher ranked but since he's in Japan's Team B, he had very few tournaments. From the few tournaments that I seen him play (I think there was the Swiss Open recently, CMIIW), he never did well or get beyond the opening rounds. Therefore, Zul has to beat him to make it... which he almost did. I think he's recovering on his form and hopefully we can see him actually creating those upsets in a few tournaments or so.
One learns from winning. One also learns from the taste of defeat. Thats the reason for tournament exposure.Hopefully this defeat will spur him to go from strength to strength as he enters the next tournaments...
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Advocates of independent players will oppose this very strongly if you have followed previous threads on this subject. So they support ZZ remaining with KLRC at all cost.
2012 Russian Open GP: Kazumasa Sakai won the MS Finals . Source: http://en.ria.ru/sports/20120701/174342763.html MS Final result: Japan’s Kazumasa Sakai won badminton's Russian Open on Sunday (01-July), denying Vladimir Malkov a second win at his home event in Vladivostok. Kazumasa’s winning margin of 21-17, 21-17 was belied by a strong performance by the Russian No. 3 and 2009 champion, who led 16-15 in the first game and held Kazumasa at 15-15 in the second before two late surges from the Japanese player made the difference. .
You'd expect a WJC to win this tournament really, Ivanov is a good player and so is Sakai, but you wouldn't see Viktor struggle with this tournament.