Nichaon Jindapol smartly played a lot to Cai Yanyan's front court area with nets and drop shots to deny her opponent too many attacking opportunities,at the same time forcing her to lift more. A lesson learned, CYY's shortcoming exposed, she must learn how to adjust her strategy or tweak her game accordingly.
in a way that is good but in a way its tough also for tomorrow but yeah R2 for most of INA pairs are good result too considering all the other pairs debacles.
I see two possible explanations for Tai's struggles. I don't want to dismiss GFJ, who is a promising young player. But Tai was simply awful today, in fact virtually unrecognizable on some shots that she missed a meter wide, committing serving faults, and most importantly showing zero emotion and virtually zero intensity or sense of urgency. Totally different by the way than her attitude against HBJ at the WC, where she dominated the middle portion of the match before (imo) succumbing to the weight of the situation in the third game after falling behind. 1. She's struggling for motivation after the WC/AG. Luckily she had the latter to shoot for as a consolation prize, but it had to be really crushing for her to dominate all year and then fall short in that one tournament that towers over everything else. (Coming from a tennis background, I can't stand this one-major-per-year system, but unfortunately that's the reality that everyone has to deal with). I think Marin winning the WC had to be doubly crushing for TTY and make her question her whole approach to these tournaments. Prior to this year's WC, what had Marin won since the Olympics? Virtually nothing compared to TTY. Yet the fact is CM has one major title since Rio and Tai has zero. Again, since Rio, Tai has 2 AEOs, 2 Badminton Asias, a Dubai Finals, many more Superseries wins than Marin. And then Marin comes like a bulldozer into one tournament and now she's the one being touted as the greatest WS player of all time. I don't think it's possible that TTY is not affected by this whole scenario. The two biggest tournaments of the year are over and now she's supposed to train like crazy for the Japan Open and the China Open? 2. And my other explanation is that she's dodging Marin. I think TTY's climb to No. 1 in part was built around beating Marin twice in late 2016 and twice again in early 2017. She sort of stood up to the bully, stared her in eye and took her down. And I think CM's reaction was to sort of go into hibernation and dodge TTY to a certain extent. They did play at this year's Malaysian Masters, but I think after Marin lost that match, she decided to sort of lay low and then really come after TTY at the WC, hoping that Tai's past failures at majors and her ridiculous decision not to play last year's WC would weigh heavily on her in Nanjing. Now I think Tai is sort of returning the favor. Why face Marin now and lose badly? Why give her even more confidence? Why not wait until Marin's level inevitably drops and face her another time?
Yeah, the Duo Mads were not in their usual performance. On the other hand, Angriawan/Hardianto played as usual, error prone .
The umpire pulled the yellow card right after the game had ended, why & what for ? This was a dull game anyway, LOL Yellow card for both pairs over their dull game through out that made the umpire sleepy.
I rather have goh/tan win tomorrow than angga/ricky, angga/ricky probably gonna get destroyed by minions again if both pair met in the qf I think minions vs goh/tan would gave us a better match in qf
