Wang Yihan ( 王仪涵 )

i hope she will join indonesia gpg on september in yogyakarta, although i think that's impossible.. haha..
someone said that Yihan not as friendly as others china players, that's true?
some people said, Yihan a little bit awkward and stiff.

 

Now we know what happened to WYH's first round defeat to Yip Pui Yin in the INA Open PSS. According to this report http://sports.qq.com/a/20130626/017385.htm , she was tired out by the pre-selection matches for the All China Games just a coupe of days before heading to Indonesia. While she was exempted from having to pre-qualify for the individual WS, she had to play for the Shanghai team in the pre-selection team matches in which she had to do duty in both women's singles and women's doubles. Yup, the team coach felt that the Shanghai team WD was weak and instructed WYH to form a scratch WD pair in the hope that her fearsome reputation as WS world champion might be able to scare the opposition even though WYH protested she wasn't up to it as far as WD was concerned, but to no avail.

In the end she had to play both WS and WD in the morning session and did the same in the afternoon session on the very same day of the opening tie, yes, a total of four matches on that particular day. In fact, in between the WS and WD there was just a one match(MS/MD/XD) rest for both the morning and afternoon sessions. As expected she won in the WS but lost the WD, which however also drained her out just before the start of the INA Open PSS that resulted in her R1 loss to YipPY. Luckily,in spite of her losing both the WDs matches, Shanghai team still managed to qualify for the finals in September.

Fortunately and ironically, that first-round exit in the IOPSS also afforded her a week's rest before the following SIN Open SS where she gradually regained her form to win the title. Btw, the All China Games is a premier multi-sports quadrennial event that is extremely important for all the nation's athletes to take part in representing their respective provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including the HKSAR and Macau SAR. It is officially designated as the National Games of the People's Republic of China,this year is the 12th edition to be held at Shenyang in northeastrn Liaoning Province from 31st August to 12th September 2013, labelled by some as 'China's Olympics' (not to be confused with the All-China Games which is another quadrennial national multi-sports event for non-Olympic sports in China which,incidentally, HKSAR participated for the first time in the 4th edition in 2010 at Hefei,Anhui).

 

nice share. thank u Justin..
according to all of you, between LXR and WYH, which one do you think is better? in terms of physic, technique, footwork etc.. Thank for sharing

 

I think WYH and LXR are equally good, and a level above everyone else in WS. The daily physical form and mental strength will determine who wins between them each time, because they are so close in all other aspects, I think. But right now, I think WYH is a little bit stronger than LXR because she seems to be playing with slightly less pressure. LXR as new world no. 1 and Olympic champion has more pressure, while WYH has dropped a little bit in the rankings and should be keen on getting back up.

 

Let look at it from other angle. The rest of WS fear facing LXR more so than WYH. H2H, I will take LXR in major tournaments and WYH in smaller ones. I feel LXR has no desire to win every tournament she enters.

 

don't blink or you will miss her

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTY2NjczNTUy.html

 

look at how yihan walk to the court, she's way was like a man, but i like it.

 

taken from the chinese forum

 

i prefer her on court than off court, in man style than a woman style.. i think she looks better when full of sweat than a lot of face powder.. ahaha

 

yaa totally agree.. i like when she looks scary on court, cool, full fighting even in "impossible score" position, that's inspire us to not give up untill the bell ring.. i impress with her tenacity

 

WYH's wishes/commitment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ft5cbInAXs

 

i agree , she looks better when she's sweaty or just finished workout in the heat or something.... rather than trying to be cool in that photo.....

 

She looks good on court because we are comparing her with others players, when she makes up, we comparing her with actress and etc, which is of higher standrad

 

i think she looks better in court because she becomes her personality. while posing, she becomes just a model and not the wang yihan we find fascinating

 

She looks good either way. If you look good, you look good

 

If you look good on court, you will look better off court because on court you are without make-up.
It's called Natural beauty.

 

Ah... but to be able to both play sublime badminton and look good, now that is even better.