The problem does not lie with LCW. It lies with some Malaysians and possibly Indonesians, who live in their well for so long they don't know and/or are not interested to know there is a bigger world outside their well. This includes surprisingly a reporter from the Malaysian Star newspaper, Rajes Paul. BTW, LCW won the Swiss open 2006 beating XXX and giving him a duck and XXX was in top form cos he took out PG. LCW is probably the only MS who has given good opponents ducks.
hehe sorry cklee i was just stressing your point. all to say, lcw can definately shed off the infamous tag if he wins this tournament. i think most will agree. He got this tag simply because he hasn't beaten LD outside the malaysian soil, and LD has beaten him outside of china soil 3 times (well if you don't wanna call hong kong part of china).
couldn't agree more. And worth mentioning he is the first player who creates almost impossible catch-up since the new scoring system, nobody till now has done it before yet (saving 8 match points in a roll and win the game in the end).
LD is known as the world No. 1 for 3 long years and yet not strong enough to lift a World or Olympic title. The reason being that China is allowed to field only 3 players unlike other tournaments. LD has always been 'escorted'. In MO and CTO, CH and CJ were his lieutenants.Altho CH is not expected to win, he can still give top players a difficult time. Do you think CJ will be allowed to fight it out with LD? Remember LD had CJ for semis in both MO and CTO ,so CJ's job was to spar without tiring LD out. LCW took 3 games to defeat LHI in his MO semi and yet he was impressive in beating LD. That's solid proof of amazing mental and physical strength. Let's hope LHI take out CJ and why not, with his experience?
pjswift. was point out a really good point that LD has beating CJ in 3 international open, maybe this is a arrangement from china to allow LD save energy, do u all notice that LD always beat CJ in 2 game, some more, the score was a big gap..then i hope LHI will beat CJ, so LD have to real fight to LHI. it's fair to LCW as well,,,am i right???
I think you may have your wishes answered. LHI will round up CJ. This left handed LHI is a dogged and stubborn player, don't give up easily. Only problem with him is his inconsistent shot accuracy. Too many unforced errors. Don't remember him winning any title thus far!! Any input? The conspiracy theory between CJ and LD sounds temptingly real but i find it hard to believe.
With Li Mao in the M'sian camp, LCW can certainly reach new highs in his career. I wish to see a more colourful variety of strokes from the world No.1.
I think, they could meet again. I wonder how many times have they met each other and who won most. Somebody could inform me?
Dont underestimate Lin Dan .... He beats a lot of top players (Taufik Hidayat, Peter Gade, Lee Chong Wei, Lee Hyun Il, Hafiz H, Sony Dwi K, Kenneth, Bao ) many times ... I think only Lin Dan, Peter Gade n Taufik H can do it ... maybe Lee Chong Wei can do it also soon ... hehehehe
Actaully LD secreat weapon is cross court jumping smash, speed and power. That is all. Wherelse LCW, his secreat weapon is he able to use the time gap to pause his action. Expecially during his jumping, he had so many option to hit the shuttle, either smash, drop shot or even just a return to baseline. Do u reliase that. I like the jumping + pause action. This give his oponnet quite hard to guess where the shuttle is.. If u can replay the Taiwan Open and of couse most of his play,u can really understand what i mean. Even the commentater do pint point on this..
LCW had already beaten b4 all the best players in the world. But as u said 'many times' maybe not yet la, LCW is a latecomer to the scene compared with them wat......... Give him some time.
Agree. Producing tricky shots and his speed is definitely his best weapon but however his has to cut down the mistakes made. Whereas for LD, his net play is still his weakest point.
LCW to win Macau Open in a close encounter Emm,, good observation, LD lost precious pts and the title during the last MO in Kuching on net play. LCW lost the 2nd game because of too many unforced errors and allowed LD to open the gap and win. I find him too anxious to finish off his opponent even though he has a 50/50 chance to kill a shot.
What im sayin is comparing among the top 4. Understand? PG, Taufik, LCW has good netplays but not LD. He should improve on this in order to be an all rounded player.
Yalor. And also during Taipei Open. He should hv taken the 1st set if not making lotsa mistakes. Maybe sometimes he thinks too much b4 producing a shot?
