I said: maybe. LOL. An old doesn't mean it already broken. . And you didn't tell the whole world that you love to play with that one, and you didn't know your opponent feeling toward it as well. What I'm trying to say is, you win some point with that old shuttle, it hasn't broken, you want to keep play with it. In today's case, if Yunlei really broke it in purpose, we know her for better now. . Life is unfair, but we can choose to be fair. Afterall, there are so many factors that could decide any outcome of a match. You will see that this 'war' change or not only happened mostly in women. I didn't find men complain too much though. LOL.
Yes the physcological battle clearly affect women more........ This is something that ZYL master at......
the reason to ask to change the shuttle are; 1) the shuttle is no good, 2) you tried to break the server concentration. the reason to refuse to change are; 3) the shuttle is Ok to play on, 4) you tried to annoy your opponents by refusing. for 1) you may have a good reason to do so. for 3) you don't have a good case as it's no harm to have a new one. both 2) and 4) are just tried to play into each others head. for the ref, if in doubt he/she will allow for a new shuttle as nothing wrong for that.