TCT lost last time because he played many tournaments and lacked of stamina. Now he is in good condition, I think Chou will go to semi-final round
He/Tan are still survived. They will face Isara/Jongjit, which is not an easy task for the Chinese duo considering that the THA pair has ousted Inoue/Kaneko and the recent Spain Masters winner, Lee/Wang.
At 21 (and from MAS even more), reaching QF for all tournaments until now, is commendable. If he can do it, then it would be great. From my view, he is already maturing quite a bit from last year.
Zhang Nan looks to be a relic from the past already...even winning a title or two might be difficult. I do not think he can qualify to Tokyo 2020, considering Zheng/Huang-Wang/Huang, and Li/Liu-Han-Zhou coming up.
Zhang Nan is no longer playing XD. He wasn't actually expected to qualify for Tokyo 2020 at all. This is double we are talking about. Hard not to be a relic if the partner has gone ahead and be a relic first. They don't even consider giving him a better partner.
I guess there is no better MD player than Liu Cheng right now. Zhang Nan has no firepower, even if his technical skills is among the best. Takes two to tango, and thing is going really bleak for him. Good point.
It's really a sad situation, considering that Zhang Nan is the Olympic gold medalist in MD. Liu/Zhang have been struggled since last year.
Zhang Nan already peaked in 2012-2016. The common scenario will be downward from this moment. Too bad, but Tokyo 2020 will be the end of a generation.
There isn't anyone good enough in CHN team to partner Zhang Nan. That's the situation. Their pairs have been all typical physical offensive kind. ZN is the odd one. LC can't possibly keep up. Li/Liu, Han/Zhou, He/Tan.. mostly rely heavily on their attacks. Once the opponents can counter them, they usually get screwed.
He played with with Liu Cheng and Liu Kai too in quite some tournaments. The most outstanding result was with Fu Haifeng in Malaysia Open 2017. Clearly the coaches want him to focus on XD at least until Tokyo 2020.
That sounds great on paper but the workload will be tremendous. As much as I want to see Zheng Siwei playing as much as possible, it is just not plausible.
Today I incidentally find out the list of "Fastest Smash Female Badminton Players", but it only counts for women single, so, does anyone know about the list of WD and XD. I just want to know who (female players) has the strongest smash.
It has been 3 days. The site will just give you 404 from noon until 10 pm. Weird But my friends from Singapore don't experience that.
I don't know the cause for this. I can't access the tournament software from my phone, but I can access on my computer.
