Players tend to give reasons when they lose to others. He lost to Prannoy in the last tournament and now to Srikanth If at all fatigue plays a part, that should be for Srikanth who had been in three finals. Even if he points out some medical condition for the loss in the finals, what about his loss @ indonesia Open? Srikanth simply played brilliantly in the finals. Let us hope he give his stupendous performance even in world championships.
I just had never seen another player consistently punch-clear him before. It was as if his opponent had always assumed CL would be able to intercept a flatter attacking clear to the backhand side (which, given CL's height and reach is a perfectly reasonable thought). What Kidambi showed in the Aus final was that attacking CL's long backhand corner with a clear is in fact a viable plan. No other player off the top of my head had experimented with that tactic against Chen Long before, certainly not at the Olympics. That said, now that Chen Long is aware of his tactic being used by Srikanth against him, his coaches and he will surely work on a countermeasure. We'll just have to wait and see.
i was there, and disappointed with the non competitive match. a few of us discussed - if LD would have made a better performance against kidambi. the collective answer - probably yes. needless to say, its a moot point.
You mean you think there was any chance of the LD (nowadays) could've possibly defeated "The Machine" that day?
where can i watch the full tournament? youtube now does not boardcast the complete version already, only 2 complete games out of 5. the other 3 was so horrible edited that its a waste of time to watch.
you can go to aiyuke.com, a click on 澳大利亚公开赛 . A series of video will open, you can choose your matches.
tks renbo, is there anyway to download from aiyuke also so i can watch on on my daily commute to work?
I don't think so. A member (whyau) used to downloads matches for us but I don't think he still does it now.
i think we have to download ourselves from now on.. http://www.52waha.com/down/badminton http://bbs.badmintoncn.com/forum-17-1.html
You must be one hell of a badminton fan, if you wanna watch them even when u r traveling. Kudos we need many more peepz like you
Yeah, i am. been watching for some years already back when LYD, JJS, FHF & CY are still in the game haha. pity all of them are retired now. cant find any better players than them now.
Yeah all we left are dancing arrogant and partner, atleast Kevin n co, kamura/Sonoda bring some amusement, otherwise MD is really boring these days, even some WD pairs are better
