I doubt it. Other than WD and Lin Dan, WS, MD, XD and 2nd MS are very vulnerable. I'm not surprised to see Denmark or Korea repeat what happened in the last Uber Cup.
I also not surprise if there would be an upset by Korea or Denmark as we have been shown already it is a mental game if the first or second match turn out to a negative result, it can turn over all the result, just like UBER CUP last year when WYH and first pair lost, they have run under pressure and give an unexpected result.
I think you have to accept the Uber Final was more the exception rather than the rule. You'd think CHN will have learned from it and not make the same mistakes. This time round CHN should win all their MS, WS and WD matches. Can you imagine another embarrassment of the same magnitude?
THis will be a little different than UBer Cup cause the men had lots of winning experience playing team event. MS and MD had play lots of team events and win. So they can play cool under pressure. And not buckling down under pressure like the Uber team did. But the MX is a bit weak and not a guarantee to win a point. The good news is they had so many pair that they can mix and match for the MX.
Lin Dan - sure win against anyone on his good day, even not on his good day he still has a good chance to beat Lee Chong Wei. No one else can touch him. Even if he loses, China has... Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng - Might not be a sure win, but then and again they can beat any other pair on their good day. Wang Shixian - Can beat pretty much any non-CHN WS Yu Yang Wang Xiaoli - WILL DEFINITELY DESTROY pretty much any non-CHN WD Xu Chen/Ma Jin - Don't know why they are so lowly-rated after their first round loss in MAS GP, don't forget that they are BAC finalists and played a great game against ZN/ZYL. They are also the AE champs. CHN to win MS, WS, WD and XD against most countries.
CHN girls are not invincible . That's for sure; the Chinese girls are currently the best in the world. Therefore, the CHN womens team should help in 50% of their team performance. When the CHN womens team was defeated last year (at the 2010 Uber Cup), there is a thinking by other countries that CHN girls are not invincible. .
its remembering me when LYB said the same statement about china team in uber cup. but we had knew the result, korean women team stole the cup.... who know's that..
Hopefully the domination of Chinese Badminton ends here... i wanna see a new country win this cup...(preferably Indonesia/ Korea/Denmark)... Korea vs China:3-2 Korean has a good chance in winning WS, MD, XD Denmark vs China:3-2 again WS(hopefully tine can beat WSX), XD, MD, MS(if Gade can win against LD)....
You know they're allowed to lose once in a while. It's not the end of the world for them. Schenk did play an excellent match though
Wonder if WSX will be fielded in today's match against Japan. My instinct tells me she won't be fielded later tonight.
