Some observations from today's line-judging:
- The shuttles were fast for the MS between A Abat & Chou T S - the officials had to tip every fourth feather although I don't see that done for subsequent matches;
- Coaches are just encouraging their players in between points ("You can do it", "That's it", "One point at a time", etc)
The boys linejudges were all gaga over Nozomi, asking her for pictures when she was warming up and arguing over being linejudges for her match. Nozomi was very accommodating with requests for pictures. The MS match between Henri Hurskainen and Yu Hsien Lin went into the third game causing Michelle Li and Sayaka Takahashi to wait an extra 15-20 minutes after they had warmed up and waiting to get on court.
The WD semi-final match between the two Japanese teams each have their own coaches mainly because one is sponsored by Unisys and the other by Panasonic. In the WS match between Nozomi and Shizuka, there was no coach as they are both sponsored by the same company.
It seems to me some of the players are exhausted and fatigue from their previous day matches as they seems to run out of steam towards the latter part of the match.
