If I were MK or HS, I would answer, "That's none of your business, dude. Get the hell away. I still wanna enjoy the beauty of this Olympic gold."
Too bad the Tournamentsoftware.com didn't provide livescoring for 2008 OG. I'll be more than happy to crop and paste LYD/JJS 2nd round defeat in the hand of Lars/Jonas of Denmark.
I don't know why you're so obsessed with this H-2-H things. Before the Olympics, Koo/Tan of Malaysia held perfect 6-0 H-2-H record against MK/HS. That makes, in your term, Koo/Tan conquered MK/HS, and therefore, MK/HS have tremendous fear (and burden) of them. Anyway, they met again each others in OG. Even I predicted that they would lose for the 7th time. However, surely you know the result, don't you? Oh, BTW, today, they beat Koo/Tan once more.
(Yeah, I also saw the game today. K/T always lose like that in rubber set. They seem to need more special concentration at the final stage of each game, IMHO.) Yeah, I'm obsessed with H2H, especially "most recent" H2H history because in sports like badminton there is some kind of "momentum" as you know. I tend to predict future with short-term records between them. BTW, the 6-0 record btw INA and MAS looks not reflecting recent ones. Can you let me know when the last two matches happened among the 6-0 between them? (IMO, the MAS has shown no improvement especially this year as they have lost to many different teams.) Yeah, I know it's alreday been five months the KOR and INA played so the momentum thing might have been diminished. But still I think there is none other team except the KOR who can beat INA. I'd like to see if the momentum has changed or still remains in their next matches.
I see. Poor you. People keep reflecting on the past glory can never progress further forward. You can see this in Indonesia football. One of Asia's powerhouse in 70s, even managed to hold Soviet Union (world class football nation that time) into a draw, it is become national embarrassment nowadays. 139th place in FIFA latest rank, can you believe it? H2H is nothing more but past statistics for me. 0-2. Alright. So what? Professional athletes should see that as a mean to motivate themselves. That's all, at least for me. Fear of meeting them again? LOLOL Er, there's still these great people in People's Republic of China national badminton team. Oh, if you happen to meet Jung Jae-sung in his boot camp, tell him I say hello.
OT here: Taufik Hidayat vs Lee Chong Wei -- 2-0 in just less than a month time. CHN pairs vs Lars Paaske/Jonas Rasmussen -- 2-0 in just a week time Taufik Hidayat HAS CONQUERED Lee Chong Wei CHN pairs HAVE CONQUERED Paaske/Rasmussen. Statistics....how we love them them.....
IMHO. HHB/YY will be the only pair which can challenge MK/HS to the maximum Only if they were to allow to compete of course
Hahaha! C'mon, please stop it... Very funny! Coincidence or not, I'm playing Command & CONQUER PC game right now!
The World and Olympics Champions has won another Super Series title in Europe, which makes it 2 out of 2 in the past 2 weeks. The next target will obviously be the Super Series FINAL. Out of the 12 Super Series events, Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan have won 7 of them....these are the 5 remaining yet to be won: (1) Korea (2) All-England (most important target next year) (3) Swiss (4) Singapore (surprise surprise.....the Singapore SS title has been quite elusive for the INA pair) (5) Japan Let's see if they can win at least 2-3 of these next year to complete their collection.
badmania, dont forget indonesian super series...they won ina open back in 2005 reached final in 2006, lost to kkk/tbh in 2007, lost to candra/tony in 2008 so overall, there are still 6 SS titles up for grabs...
Ah... my friend, also the Asian Games Gold in 2010, to complete the collection of winning the 4 major events.
That's still 2 years down the road The short-term target will still be the All-England title and a few more Super Series titles to complete the collection. Team titles like Sudirman Cup and Thomas Cup will be important too
we all know lyd is a great talent...but...currently on md...kido/setiawan is surely the best of the best......hehe... p/snly koo/tan manage to steel 1 set from them after their JO(am i right?) defeat...
Actually, they had done it earlier, with the China, Hong Kong and then Malaysia Super Series. This will be their 2nd 3-in-a-row.
Cho/Yoo and Rian/Yoke (in Japan Open), Cai/Xu (in Denmark Open) managed force Kido/Hendra to rubber-sets.
