That Korean coach left LS’s team a year ago. Anup was coaching LS for the entire 2023. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The great fall correlates with coach's exit then. Idk why decent coaches won't stay for long. I am glad Gurusai and Parupalli were taking up coaching. Slightly off topic, these young players need coach by their side more, not having coach due to same country opponent is definitely not helping young players like PR and even LS to a lesser extent.
Sole focus of Lakshya/Coaches/BAI to reach Top 16 before OQ qualification period Ends... Getting Top 16 in MS is more intense now (until Apr end).
Not really. There were reports that the Korean coach overtrained LS, and he was in a bad physical condition by the time he left. It was said earlier, his new coaching team then worked to improve his fitness, which we saw resulting in improved performances— from Thailand open to Asian games. Whatever followed the Asian games team event was beyond reasoning. However, I read somewhere Vimal Kumar mentioning LS was picking up infections during the tournaments late last year where he made the first round exits. I thought that health issue was sorted. Overall, his dip in performance is still largely a puzzle
I don't know why they pointing out other coach when something bad is going on. Indian coaches never ever take responsibilities. They never accept their inefficiencies. Mostly egoistic. Korean coach has gone long ago. Who is responsible for his lackluster performances for a while now. I hope somebody point out publicly about Anup sridhar and other Indian coaches .. but silently he left Anup and joined together with vimalkumar without talking about their inefficiencies.
https://indianexpress.com/article/s...024-olympics-coach-yoo-yong-sun-9431111/lite/ Lakshya’s team to Paris: DK Sen, Vimal Kumar, Korean coach, Ayush Shetty, Kiran George, and a physio. Personally I like this all-in approach from Lakshya Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sir, just by reading couple of news articles and vomitting out things dont really help. Do foreign coaches take responsibilities? If yes, then what responsibilities have all the foreign coaches of PV Sindhu taken with her useless performance over the last 5 years? Except for olympics and SS title (where no one played) she doesn't have any performance worth showing. Atleast Indian coaches like Manu Attri/Anoop/Guru Sai Dutt are doing something. Arun Vishnu has made sure that Gayatri/Jolly performances are improving. They atleast match the top 10 pairs now. I have never been a fan foreign coaches. They are like Blood sucking bugs, they will just suck the blood out and go. I don't blame them. We should harvest our local ones who will earnestly work towards improving our quality of badminton. P:S ::- The great MD pair of Kevin Sanjaya and Marcus Gideon had a fallout with their coaches after their form seemed to drop, especially after loosing continuously to Endo/Wata. This has been the case everywhere in almost every country. India has been faring way way better in handling issues like coach fallout and other issues.
Sir, I said that in different context. Our coaches points mistakes on foreign coaches but they never say anything about our own . That's what I pointed out. Now, Lakshya has brought back the same Korean coach. Blaming him and bringing him back again does not do good . Now he is training under him.
Sir, "Blaming him and bringing him back again does not do good" who are we to say that? From the news it i come to know that YYS is happy to be back with Lakshya. Also it is just for a period of one month. As for blaming foreign coaches and not saying anything about our own, well what will happen by blaming? The local coaches (like Gopi/Vimal/Prakash) have much more to do than to think of a single player. So a player cannot pin point them as they are look at whole of India in general. As i say, take the example of Sindhu. 1000s of foreign coaches tried but performance BIG ZERO only. Better not try to find reasons ( coaches, health this that) blah blah and blah, as one can pin-point 10000 things and still never arrive at sound conclusion.
In retrospect, I feel LS should have played a couple more tournaments to retain his place in top 13 for a seeded entry at Olympics. Contrastingly LZJ played a lot (in fact a little too much) of tournaments in the last couple months. Now he sits comfortably with a seeded position. But LS decided not to take that route, instead played a few tournaments to focus more on training and remaining fresh & injury free for Olympics. Having said all this, even now I’m not implying it is impossible for LS to be on the podium. But with his style of play, it will be rather difficult to win 7 matches to win a medal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Getting out of the group is the first major task. With the form he has and the quality of opponent in JC, it is tough. As you mentioned regarding if he were seeded, I totally agree. Defeating JC (hopefully Cordon doesn’t have other plans), Prannoy, Kodai, Viktor would be a huge ask. Hopefully good things to come
Yes. Even I fear it. It is extremely difficult for players in this group. Kevin cordon is a beast when coming to majors. JC and Sen has to be very alert from the start.
Sen is not drinking water/Energy drink during match like Viktor & others.. This may be one of the reasons for "Switch off"
Frrom my previous comment in the India National Team thread after Viktor vs Laksha Sen in the semi-finals (not sure why I posted it there, I should have posted it here): Just watched the semi-finals with Laksha Sen versus Viktor Axelsen. Shame that Laksha Sen didn't take the 1st set, but I also attribute this to experience under pressure at high level tournaments. I think if Laksha Sen can win some more BWF 750 and BWF 1000 titles, and also win a WC, it will help him with the pressure in future Olympic games. In general, I think he needs to perform better on the regular BWF tour. What Laksha Sen lacks is the ability to maintain that high level of play and consistency. You can see he had that high level of play and consistency in spurts. In the first set, it looked like he would run away with the set but he gradually let Viktor back in, also in spurts. And then Laksha started off 7-0 in the 2nd set. Once again, it looked like Laksha would run away with the set. But then once again, he let Viktor back in. If Laksha can improve his consistency, it would do wonders. Giving away easy points is really a momentum killer and top players like Viktor will feed off the easy mistakes you give them.
So here are my thoughts after watching the bronze medal match: For Laksha Sen, either he has stamina issues, or he is unwilling to do the power smash from the back court. Because LZJ had no issues doing power smashes from the back court. Laksha Sen's smashes just weren't doing damage to LZJ. Having said that, all is not lost. If you watch the 2013 WC, that was the most defensive that I have seen LD play before. LD just kept rallying, rallying, and rallying in the 2013 WC, and he didn't smash much, but he kept beating player, after player, after player with very few smashes. So you can be a more defensive player, and still win a WC or Olympic Gold. You just have to be skilled though, it's not easy of course, when comparing to LD. I hope Laksha Sen improves his game further. He is still young, and at the next Olympics, he will be 26 years of age, which is a prime age for a MS badminton player.
Hi, I saw a photo of this Tweet, but I can't confirm if what was said was real or not: Can anybody confirm that Prakash Pakudone actually said this about Laksha Sen? First of all, I am not Indian. But if I were Indian and I were a fan of Laksha Sen, this is not very productive, what Prakash Pakudone said (if he said this, which I want to confirm if he said it). From my understanding, Laksha Sen is the first Indian Men's Singles player to make it to the final 4 for Men's Singles at the Olympics. For Prakash Pakudone to say this, it just seems unneeded and unproductive (if he said this in the first place, which is something I would like to confirm).
