G1 not what I expected, Kunlavut overwhelms Christo Popov, 21-8. KV is the most experienced of the junior circuit players currently, apart from the hiccup in the mixed team event where he lost to Bobby, he is making his experience and skills count.
Kunlavut really has some nice finesse, reminds me of Boonsak Ponsana. His small deceptions around the net really hurts Popov. The frenchman is doing all the chasing at the moment.
Evgenia Kosetskaya has improved considerably, and fitness not bad. Wang Zhiyi is already showing some signs of fatigue in G2, it seems.
Winning WJC once is enough. What do you need winning 3x , just give unnecessary pressure when go to senior.
Evegenia all of a sudden became nervous. Loads and loads of errors. Even easy smash at net was missed by her.
EK smashes a sitter into the net at a crucial moment, 18-19 to hand 2 championship points to WZY who duly converted with a well-played final rally.
Wang zhiyi felt the heaviness of the trophy and was murmuring inside "what the hell is there inside"?
Not really pressure. Ratchanok won 3 times and she could win more as she is still eligible to play but chose not to. After that she still once world no 1 rank and win WC. Of course the problem is always when a player already in such competitive from young age, injury would be more likely to happen. And sometimes after injury, the player is no longer can achieve his/her best. And that give that pressure.
WJC WD: Lin/Zhou is not able to keep attacking and defending well enough, the WD title should be INA's.
Glad to be proven wrong,G3 changes complexion, the CHN WD pair playing a different game to emerge champion.
Lin FanLing pulling a JiaYifan. I think she did it 3-4 times this tournament. Same with IndahSari who did it twice at least especially against India pair where they could have lost.
Admittedly, Wang Zhiyi capturing back-to-back titles (for the first time?), albeit both S100 low tier events, is commendable. Incidentally, this is WZY's 5th title of the year, 6th if we include one last year. Six senior-level titles in the first year of her professional career for a 19-year-old is certainly noteworthy. Way to go. Let's hope her world ranking rises high enough for her to be eligible for the higher tier events soon.
