2022 Daihatsu Yonex Japan Open

Kenta nishimoto won at last. Quality of players he has beaten enroute to the final was amazing. Commonwealth games champion and last year world championships bronze medallist Sen, Asian games champion Jonathan Christie and former world championships silver medallist anders antonsen and at last glorified grinder Chou tien Chen.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
You are correct, I did not see that particular quote because I have that person on ignore since forever (seriously, who hasn't?) and I guess it became apparent why. That statement is indeed way over the top and I now understand your reaction much better, sorry.

However, I have since watched the scenes in question and I think Antonsen deliberately tried to put Nishimoto off several times and deserves all the appropriate (!) criticism. Gill Clarke, for example, was very critical of his behaviour and voiced her criticism in the strongest words I've heard from her over the years.
These instances all occured during the closing stages of the games with momentum on Nishimoto's side. Correct me if I'm wrong (not watching the whole match), but for the rest of the match, AA doesn't seem to have a problem with the way KN was serving.

At 37:30 he is clearly ready and then puts his arm up (to quote Gill: "Why on earth isn't he ready? He was ready!")
At 39:46, you can stop when the camera switches from Nishimoto to the total perspective and see that Antonsen has his left hand up while his racket arm is down, so he is not at all in his usual receiving stance yet. He is clearly not ready. Here, Nishimoto also served too soon, no doubt. However, after that, Antonsen celebrates the flick going out. When the umpire then agrees with Nishimoto and tells AA it is a let because he was not ready, Antonsen responds by saying "I was ready." That is simply a lie straight to the umpires face. Gill also said the same: "Once again indicating that he wasn't ready and then saw the shuttle fly out and said he was ready."

1:10:09 is also pretty clear: he is standing there with his arms up, same receiving postures as is normal for him, looking at Nishimoto before the serve (stop at 1:10:08). Gil: "I don't get it. Why is he not ready? He was standing there, ready, and then says I'm not ready."

The last incident, at 1:11:16, it is a bit closer, meaning Nishimoto is serving quicker, maybe even too quick, but just like on the other two occasions, AA is clearly looking at Nishimoto before the serve. What does he say to the umpire? "Every time I'm about to look up and he serves." No, dude. You are looking up every single time and then he serves. Once again, this is much closer, and if it was an isolated incident, maybe Nishimoto would have received word from the umpire.
This is all pretty scummy stuff, as it is deliberate and unsporting (especially the lie). I don't see what there is to defend about it.

Apologies again for my initial post, I had indeed not seen the stronger worded post you mentioned. However, I totally agree with the real critcism by the serious users (and Gill and the umpire, actually).
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No worries :)

I only re-watched the short summary of "the situation" that someone posted. I agree AA was pushing it. My guess is he was fed up with KN, because KN is obviously trying to catch AA off guard (didn't KN get a yellow card for exactly this in an earlier match?). So maybe AA's line of thought was something like "I won't allow you to control when I am ready. I will take back control of when I am ready".
All in all, I don't think it was unfair to give AA a yellow card at some point. However, I think the timing of the card was terrible because on that serve (19-17), AA was not ready. He was still moving in position.
 
Giga01 said:
Kenta won. That was such a very good match. Really love Kenta's defense. It feels like Tien could play a bit more aggresively cause a lot of offensive moves were working.
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I think Chou wanted to but couldn't. KN's defence was too good for Chou's attack early in the rallies and later in the rallies, Chou didn't have enough energy to launch an attack. Exciting match all in all.

Now for another close 90 minute match lol.
 
PV Sindhu is the worst matchup for Akane in this slow playing condition according to Steen

An SY hasn't got any answer so far
 
justiceforlcy said:
Viktor is just so good that he makes everyone looks not world class
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Oh, there's the first to preach the gospel. :D
Because Lakshya Sen, Loh Kean Yew, AA, Kunlavut Vitidsarn, Lee Zi Jia and CTC are basically the male equivalents of Chen Yufei, Carolina Marin and An Se Young. Look at all the titles they have amassed. Look at how consistent they are.
Not bothering to check, but I'm fairly certain players like CYF and CM have better careers alone than the entirety of the MS top 20 (minus VA and KM) combined.

Edit: Oops, forgot Chen Long. Obviously a world class player with a great career. Somehow, he still is in the top 20.
 
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