i highly doubt that will work or not. everybody can see that he is no more the TH before. he got beaten by CJ, CH, not to mention LD. he is just trying to keep his self confidence not be crashed by losing to LD again within just 3 weeks, so deep in his mind he can maintain his superiority to LD for some time. if a psy-war, it's for himself. he is deceiving himself by turning blind to the fact.
Hmm, we have yet to hear from Indra ever since Taufik's defeat by Chen Jin at the 2006 China Open. I anxiously await for his colorful excuses for that defeat and another defeat to Chen Hong and of course for this walkover as well.
withdrew? more of chickened out in my opinion...i'm beginning to dislike his tantrums...it's time to change idols
forgot to say my prediction: (on the left are winners) MS Lin Dan vs Taufik Hidayat- WALKOVER Chen Jin vs Chen Yu WS Zhang Ning vs Wang YH XXF vs Jiang MD FHF/CY vs Lin/Mohd- jia you win this time! Kido/Setiawan vs Guo/Xie WD Gao/Huang vs Chien/Cheng Zhang/Yang vs Wong/Chin XD Zhang/Gao vs Widanto/Natsir- I'm not very sure about this one either way Xie/Zhang vs Zheng/Zhao
he is not brave enough to face another defeat as he regards himself to be world no.1 ... i miss Gade who never give up though he has only 5% chance beating LD.
Hopefully this time m'sia players can give us some suprising, last few tournaments made me felt very disappointed to them ah.....
Its the second walkout after the first in HO2006. Then he pratically gave up on third set of HK2006 final against LD. Practically the only match he play fully and fight all out was Thomas Cup SF against China and he lost straight sets at that time. Probably he only want to gave confidence to himself (I doubtly he succeed) after being lost to China players 5 tournaments in a row. Hong Kong Open (QF VS LD . TH do the famous walkover) World CHampion (R16 lost 3 sets to Chen Hong) Japan Open (Final lost to LD again in 3 sets) China Open (R16 lost to CJ in 3 sets) World Cup (In group prelimnary lost to CH again in 3 closed tight sets and suddenly had wrist injury while he had to play LD in SF) How chicken can you be. Even Hafiz who never won against LD never suddenly had wrist injury when he had to play LD each time. Or lots of players who LD had beat this year. Probably TH for have to pick wisely for next tournament. Try to pick an events without China players participating.
Have the games started? Dissapointed with Taufik's withdraw, although he wouldn't have a chance to beat Lin Dan at this point, he needs to regain his stamina first. He did pull something in the third set when playing Chen Hong though, at least that's what he was showing from his body language.
