Both Kim's are not a powerful smasher, but really active around the court.. quick play and drive are really a counter for tall Chinese pair
Congratulations to both Kim Gi Jung / Kim Sa Rang for winning the game today. Both of you have qualified foe Olympics. Congratulations. Now Ko sung Hyun / shin Baek Cheol can concentrate in both their XD match for Olympics.
It makes me sad that Kento momota will be suspended from playing indefinitely and was thrown out of National team.
I think Korean coaches will select Kim/Kim for Rio but I don't think either Shin Baek Cheol or Ko Sung Hyun will get any medal in XD.
Many people praised CB/HW telling everyone that for sure they will win Oly... yeah right. Even blabl said otherwise for his own countrymen. CB/HW will always be a 2nd rated CHN MD pair. They can't even win against KGJ/KSR, the 3rd Korea MD pair.
Congrats to the Kims for their well-deserved title. Hope they continue to improve on their journey to Rio, if they can make it. Anyway they scored many points for this SSP!
Very close first set. I felt KKJ didn't settle well for almost the whole set, but they still managed to win. Could have gone either way. After this Kim/Kim played freely but still very focused, giving the Chinese pair no chance to win the match. If both Koreans have enough confident, they play brilliant. Yesterday they beat Lee/Yoo convincingly and I think there was not tactics behind the result. They were fired up to close the gap to Ko/Shin and derserved to achieve this. Korea has three great, entertaining MD. And all are quite in form
Now, mixed double...hopefully the malaysian can pull awesome performance as the underdog against well established natsir/tontowi