https://www.zhuafan.tech/channeltypes/BadmintonLink to watch live matches??
https://www.zhuafan.tech/channeltypes/BadmintonLink to watch live matches??
Yeah, definitely.Good to see, it's only in this kind of domestic tournament that we still get to see retired and less active players, such as Zhang Nan, Lu Kai, WD Tang Jinhua, Chai Biao, etc.
Is it going live now??
All the day's matches have been played, you're getting replays now.Is it going live now??
AFAIK, Zhang Nan hasn't officially announced his retirement, perhaps he's waiting out the pandemic for a while more before deciding his next move.Yeah, definitely.
Was great to see Chai Biao in back action. Even after resigning from the national team he is still looking really sharp at the net
I was positively surprised by how well he was playing, good job by the coaches pairing him with Zhang Wen who could set up Chai at the net.
Great to see Zhang Nan again as well. No shame losing to Zheng/Wang, especially with such a young partner.
Hope to see ZN more regular in the future, according to Weibo he doesn't plan to retire for now (and afaik he hasn't resigned from the national team?).
Can someone mention the results of quarterfinals in each category??
AFAIK, Zhang Nan hasn't officially announced his retirement, perhaps he's waiting out the pandemic for a while more before deciding his next move.
For a doubles player, age 31, which ZN is now, is not a significant disadvantage or handicap, imho. But, I'm not too sure he would stick with his current MD partner Ou Xuanyi for, as we know, it hasn't worked out very well. If not, will CBA or his coaches, esp chief coach Zhang Jun, allow him to change or pick another partner? If yes, I'd suggest he gets Huang Kaixiang, whom Li Yongbo once upon a time praised as a natural and smart-thinking doubles player, which means the latter's current partner, Liu Cheng, has to find someone else.
By doing so, Zhang Nan can start all over again to campaign for the 2024 Paris OG, about three-year timeframe provided international competition resumes soon as the new pairing has to more or less but not entirely start from scratch in their Olympic quest.
@林贵埔
全运会结束啦,最后一次比赛也结束了。从2004年到现在17年的学球之路,感谢一路上一起奋斗的兄弟们,教导过我的教练们,帮助过我的医生们、工作人员和一直支持我的朋友们。这一路过来好像过的还是比较丰富的,有开心、有失落、有无助、有感动、也有遗憾,但人生好像就是得带着点遗憾走下去。15年的羽毛球职业生涯再见啦,带着初心和对未来的期望开始准备进入人生的下一阶段。希望还在一线拼搏的兄弟们越来越好,健健康康的打下去。也希望浙江羽毛球队越来好。
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Has he called it a day?
Another Chinese World Junior Champion who can't make the grade at the senior level, in his case due to a serious injury. Luckily he went on to do a degree during his hiatus from badminton. Many Chinese WJ champions could not make the grade at the senior level. Zhu Feng is one of them. Third WJ Champion after Sun Jun and Chen Gang ( didn't make the grade at the senior level). Mention him because I saw him umpiring one of the matches in the on-going tournament. This man completely disappeared from the Chinese badminton scene after his WJC win.
Best of luck LGP. Thanks for the memories during your junior days.
I beg to differ, for doubles player, Zhang Nan at age 31 is not too old. You forgot INA's Hendra Setiawan, now already 37, WR2 with Mohd Ahsan, and they just competed at the Tokyo OG, and also Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng both retired in their mid-30s, the latter when he was 33 even partnered ZN to clinched MD gold at Rio'16.I think Zhang Nan is too old though and it looks like players from other countries are trending even younger,so I think China probably will follow the trend too. Malaysia dropped their World No. 15 ranked pair from the national association and one of them is only aged 26. I saw Malaysia's Sudirman Cup MD players,one pair,Aaron and Wooi Yik,the Olympic bronze medallists,are only aged 23,and the other chosen pair is even younger,I believe only aged 21 and 22.
If they're going to split up pairs why not split up Liu Junhui and Liu Yuchen and pair them with others? They're still young and relatively fit,maybe a new partnership could boost them.
With Han Cheng Kai retiring, Zhou Haodong would be without a partner for now.I beg to differ, for doubles player, Zhang Nan at age 31 is not too old. You forgot INA's Hendra Setiawan, now already 37, WR2 with Mohd Ahsan, and they just competed at the Tokyo OG, and also Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng both retired in their mid-30s, the latter when he was 33 even partnered ZN to clinched MD gold at Rio'16.
So, I think if ZN is keen to try another Olympics and wishes for a new partner, I believe Zhang Jun and the hired KOR MD coaches would most likely accede to his special request.
As for splitting Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen, Zhang Jun has expressed before that one of the important considerations for keeping any partnerships in doubles is the rapport and tacit understanding the pair has developed from their junior days with promising results (eg, WJC'13 and AJC'13 title winners) which carry on into their adult years ,eg, World Champion 2018, and silver medalists in the just concluded Tokyo OG. Most assuredly, no justification to separate this pairing, unwise, too disruptive; the more so when China has a dearth of really good MD pairs, only one ranked in the top 10 at the moment.
Yup, it's official. Lin Guipu has formally announced he is quitting badminton as posted here https://sports.sina.com.cn/others/badmin/2021-09-15/doc-iktzqtyt6197833.shtml@林贵埔
全运会结束啦,最后一次比赛也结束了。从2004年到现在17年的学球之路,感谢一路上一起奋斗的兄弟们,教导过我的教练们,帮助过我的医生们、工作人员和一直支持我的朋友们。这一路过来好像过的还是比较丰富的,有开心、有失落、有无助、有感动、也有遗憾,但人生好像就是得带着点遗憾走下去。15年的羽毛球职业生涯再见啦,带着初心和对未来的期望开始准备进入人生的下一阶段。希望还在一线拼搏的兄弟们越来越好,健健康康的打下去。也希望浙江羽毛球队越来好。
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Has he called it a day?
Another Chinese World Junior Champion who can't make the grade at the senior level, in his case due to a serious injury. Luckily he went on to get a degree during his hiatus from badminton. Many Chinese WJ champions could not make the grade at the senior level. Zhu Feng is one of them. Third WJ Champion after Sun Jun and Chen Gang ( who didn't make the grade at the senior level). Mention him because I saw him umpiring one of the matches in the on-going tournament. This man completely disappeared from the Chinese badminton scene after his WJC win.
Best of luck LGP. Thanks for the memories during your junior days.
Yeah, your last point has been at the back of my mind but, I was thinking, instead of the usual complementary one-strong-front-court with another-strong-back-court players combo, why not try something different?With Han Cheng Kai retiring, Zhou Haodong would be without a partner for now.
I don't think splitting up the twin towers would lead to any pair able to perform better than they would, so Li/Liu are out of the question (at least imo).
Other pairs you could think about splitting up are Liu Cheng/Huang Kaixiang and He Jiting/Tan Quiang and ofc Ou/Zhang.
Liu and He have been playing well throughout the National Games, might be worth it to give that combination a shot. Will be interesting to see how they perform against Wang/Zhou tomorrow.
Tbh, I felt like Liu had been playing better in this year, than he did in 2018-2020. Might be worth giving Liu/Zhang a second chance.
Not sure if HKX would be a good match for ZN, from the few matches I can remember, he seems to play better when he is at the front. Not sure if he has the backcourt abilities to set up ZN at the front and vice versa...
I agree that it would be worth to give it a try. My biggest concern is, that other top pairs would pin either of them at the back, like it happened with LYD in his later years. Speaking of which, the combination of ZN/HKX somehow reminds me of the combination of LYD and Shin Beak Cheol which many people would have liked to see but never happened.Yeah, your last point has been at the back of my mind but, I was thinking, instead of the usual complementary one-strong-front-court with another-strong-back-court players combo, why not try something different?
What you've in mind is to have ZN at the front most of the time to set up for the powerful attacker at the back to kill the shuttle repeatedly a la the Zhang Nan /Fu Haifeng combo that won them the Rio'16 gold. However, in FHF's case, as he aged, his cumulative experience, knowledge of the game and maturity was such that he can be quite good when kept at the front court sometimes by the opponents, so much so that FHF wasn't just a hard hitter raining smashes at the back but also adept at the front court when necessary or forced to by the opponents targeting him or his partner, Zhang Nan, to keep either one out of the picture as much as possible.
The problem is there is no one in the Chinese camp today able to fill FHF's shoes among the current cohort of younger MD players. So having another Liu Cheng type of power player at the back would make the ZN/LC type combo another predictable pairing as it won't be long before the opponents get the hang of their playing style, their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Therefore, that makes me thinking, how about pairing two doubles players with quite similar characteristics that allow the two to blend and tick as one, thus enhancing their strengths but without glaring weaknesses? In the case of ZN/HKX combo, both are intelligent, creative , thinking players, and if they can read each other's minds well, they won't get in each other's way but would get into position and follow up with the opponent's return shots almost seamlessly. Also, neither of them are weak at the back, just not very aggressive , and if the opponents keep clearing or lifting to the back court, the two can rotate to continue the attack/smashes, or go for placement shots, or change tactics suddenly to catch the opponent off guard.
Just humbly exploring possibilities for improvement that may perhaps, hopefully, lead to some novelties.