Easy to be an armchair critic, but wth was CTC thinking the last few points?? So clear that Chen Long was picking on him trying to play the net all the time, a flick or two to the back would help
Chou TC extends his poor record against Chen Long, 9-0. The World #2 had a chance to force rubber games when leading 17-13 but he looked lack of focus, losing out several points to the Olympic Champion through net play. A chance keeps alive for home hopeful, the under pressure Chen Long celebrates his victory emotionally at the end of match.
Watanabe/Higashino manage group B winner, outclass Faizal/Widjaja who still have chance to progress if their teammates Jordan/Oktavianti beat Zheng/Huang.
you can only live for the moment, nobody can change the past and nobody can predict the future, so the moment is the most important
YutaHiga is fairplay, they can choose to lose to Indonesian pair 0-2 to spend energy as less as posible and get ZhengHuang out
Wow damn, their culture I guess. If it’d were me I would have done that. It may come and bite them in the ass in the knockout stages
Did everyone forget about olympic 2012 WD fiasco? By losing deliberately, you might get sanction/ penalty from BWF.
Its a different situation, in this wd match, both pair want to lose and everyone can see that something is wrong, but this match, YutaHiga just need to play with 50 or 70 percents and the Indonesian pair, who want to win will do everything rest
The CHN WD pair only got caught because the Korean pair saw through that and tried to lose too, since it would benefit them in the main draw. In this case, the INA pair would take it and say thank you very much for helping me qualify. So it would be a lot more nuanced since it is really impossible to prove that one is losing on purpose or being really lackluster (like Chen Long’s surprising lack of effort against Ginting yesterday)
Wow Pramel almost beat ZhengHuang. oh Geez if they meet in Olympics , Fire... Cant believe ZSW needs celebrate like that getting out of the group lol
A lucky escape for Zheng/Huang to secure semifinal berth in thrilling ending, vulnerable performance by the world number one. Jordan/Oktavianti really pose a credible threat for this Chinese aces.
