Lin Dan is surely turning into a one-man show on world badminton. His consistency and panache surely surpasses just about everyone now, playing full of confidence and doing everything right. Throw any opponent to his path and it won't bother him much. In fact, he was so good that (if James' report was correct) he could afford to toy around with Gade in the first set.
Could we be seeing a new star in the mould of Zhao Jianhua and Yang Yang coming of age? I sure hope so. Legends are hard to come by nowadays.
Could Lin Dan be next? At this rate, he'd eclipse both the two by the end of his career.