Lee Chong Wei ( 李宗伟 )

It is better to lose in the starting rounds, then win the next tournament, then to be losing finalist over and over. I think it is good in a way because it gets you fired up to win in the next. It was an exhilarating performance in the MO finals. Victor Axel is touted to be the player to watch in future, is nowhere near him for now. That said, the women singles now is more exciting to watch than men's singles, with so many raw and superb talents up and coming. Service faults are increasingly more complicated to understand, notwithstanding that if you already knew racket below the waist is enough, but no, but apparently the number of degrees the racket head compass is at is very complicating, not to mention unclear. It is virtually useless to ask the service umpire anything when you are faulted as you will only incur the wrath of the sitting umpire. If you want more time to dilly dally, just purposely throw your towel unkempt out of the box, and you will get more time. But no, you can't choose to bite your nails. If you are really really dripping with sweat all over the court, and the fanatic-sterned umpire will not allow you a wipe, just pretend to slip and fall on the court. But yes, i support the notion to keep the pace of the game on-going without interruptions. And why didn't the mix doubles coach fix the error of low services from Chan Peng Soon? That's all he has to fix and the game is theirs now. Ask him go talk to Razif, both are same victims of bad service in the beginning, but the latter improved very much. Dare to lose, haha. Way to go LCW. But to LD also kudos. I think Inthanon reaped rewards of from the exhibition match with LD, but LD did not acquire anything useful from the match.
 
Hopefully he can maintain his 2nd seed, or even get 1st seed for Olympics, it should(probably) make his life easier then.
 
Ok so far LCW won MAS master GP and MAS SS this year. We will see whether he is peaking at right time just before TC and Oly... his first victim is WZM in BAC.

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Interesting game between Lin dan & LCW. 1st game we see LCW came from behind to win the game & lost his focus in Game 2. The 3rd Game we see a confident LCW. IMHO, I think LCW is much smarter now when playing against Lin Dan. In Game 3 I can see he tends to hit the shuttle at the empty spot where Lin Dan was unable to reach.

Well Lin Dan is sure thirsty for revenge. It will be a closer match against a fresher Lin Dan in Olympics. I really hope LCW can make his game more unpredictable & reduce his unforced errors.
 
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it's a good game today for LCW.

Yet I will not be so silly to say openly that my major rival who did better than me in the very long past, doesn't know how to prepare for a major competition, particularly this rival was really doing much better than myself in this very long past...
 
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Hopefully LCW will keep this momentum to the OG. Top 3 will be around those players.
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Do you guys think LCW can maintain his form in Olympics? I am sure that the Chinese team will prepare an answer sheet to counter LCW's game after the ABC. Often when LCW is able to win against the China players before the major tournament, he tends to crumble when it comes to the most important tournaments:(:(:( Lin Dan & Chen Long always has the answer for LCW's game in WC & Olympics:(:(
 
I think LCW play a little different against Chen Long and LinDan. His new coach helped him as we can see


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seagame2001 said:
I think LCW play a little different against Chen Long and LinDan. His new coach helped him as we can see


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Yes, ever since his comeback after the 6 month sanction, he's been honing a different style of play.

More patient and controlling, but with sudden bursts of incredible speed (for any age, much less his 33 yr old body! ) when there's a chance for attack. His net play used to be one of his weakness, but no longer now as he can regularly roll the shuttle off the net. (And even provide a perfect net cord reply off CL's net cord shot! CL was left scratching his head WTH was that! )


On top of that, he's also regularly incorporating deceptive hold and hit shots, whether on overhead shots or forecourt shots. Often his opponent's timing is thrown off and occasionally end up scrambling wrong footed.

But the most significant improvement is his mental state. ***He's no longer afraid of losing.*** And that is very important because it frees him from the burden to win as the only MAS representative in the late stages of most tournaments. Now we see him playing more free and relaxed, unstressed... even smiling at his own silly mistakes now and then. And even allow him to come back to win games from behind.

All this is clearly evident in the recent MAS open, and now this BAC.

Welcome to LCW Ver. 2.0.
 
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Yes, ever since his comeback after the 6 month sanction, he's been honing a different style of play.

More patient and controlling, but with sudden bursts of incredible speed (for any age, much less his 33 yr old body! ) when there's a chance for attack. His net play used to be one of his weakness, but no longer now as he can regularly roll the shuttle off the net. (And even provide a perfect net cord reply off CL's net cord shot! CL was left scratching his head WTH was that! )


On top of that, he's also regularly incorporating deceptive hold and hit shots, whether on overhead shots or forecourt shots. Often his opponent's timing is thrown off and occasionally end up scrambling wrong footed.

But the most significant improvement is his mental state. ***He's no longer afraid of losing.*** And that is very important because it frees him from the burden to win as the only MAS representative in the late stages of most tournaments. Now we see him playing more free and relaxed, unstressed... even smiling at his own silly mistakes now and then. And even allow him to come back to win games from behind.

All this is clearly evident in the recent MAS open, and now this BAC.

Welcome to LCW Ver. 2.0.
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I love his net play. It is so goooood :eek::eek::eek::eek: I wonder how much training he needs to endure in order to increase the success of the shuttle rolling on the net. When he did that, the opponents have the difficulty to return the shuttle. Yup even hendrawan during the interval advise LCW to relax & try to attack whenever he can. If he cannot attack, just play patiently.

Lets cross our fingers & hope that LCW Ver 3.0 will emerge in Olympics to fight against Lin Dan & Chen Long version X.0. The burden & the stake is much higher there. It will be the final test for LCW. I hope he will remains positive & do not think too much of winning. Give his best & regardless of the result LCW is the no 1 player in our Malaysian eyes
 
LCW has had this style of play for a few years now. Just look at how he played against JOJ/VA in the last two WC SFs, and the contrast to how he played in the final. The difference now is that he is able to use this style against LD/CL.
 
yamsyams said:
LCW has had this style of play for a few years now. Just look at how he played against JOJ/VA in the last two WC SFs, and the contrast to how he played in the final. The difference now is that he is able to use this style against LD/CL.
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Yes, but I wanted to emphasize what's new.

His deception is new.

His net play was the pits in the past, relatively speaking compared to say LD, CL, or even Momota. Now it's much better.

And most important is his new mindset now. He seems to have reached a higher level of "flow" in his game.

Hope he can maintain this and build up to his ultimate goal... Rio.
 
Just hope that he doesnt show his new tricks/style too often so that China Team can find a way to counter it. I still remember what happened in 2008 olympics.. He said he has a new weapon to beat LD but he used it too often for LD to easily read it and hence, LD could counter ataack it even before LCW hit the shot. Please keep some secret weapon in the sleeve until its time to fully unleash it!
 
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Yes, but I wanted to emphasize what's new.

His deception is new.

His net play was the pits in the past, relatively speaking compared to say LD, CL, or even Momota. Now it's much better.

And most important is his new mindset now. He seems to have reached a higher level of "flow" in his game.

Hope he can maintain this and build up to his ultimate goal... Rio.
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Regarding the net play and deception, I would attribute them to his advantage in speed over his opponent. When he is much faster than his opponent (which was basically everyone in the past 5 years, bar LD/CL) and his confidence is high, these elements have been part of his game for a while now.

The "new" part is that LCW is now able to outspeed the current LD/CL to such an extent that he has the confidence (which is the mindset that you are speaking of) to pull those shots off.
 
yayachico said:
Just hope that he doesnt show his new tricks/style too often so that China Team can find a way to counter it. I still remember what happened in 2008 olympics.. He said he has a new weapon to beat LD but he used it too often for LD to easily read it and hence, LD could counter ataack it even before LCW hit the shot. Please keep some secret weapon in the sleeve until its time to fully unleash it!
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I think a big factor that LCW used to beat LD/CL recently was to (correctly) overcommit, as mentioned by Morten Frost in a past match, thus increasing his effective speed on court. He is pushing to the baseline with deception and waiting at the net to create attacking opportunities. It'll be interesting to see whether LD/CL can deal with this at Rio like CL did in WC14, and whether LCW has a plan B if they do, etc.
 
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