Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir to split

flo-J said:
Lilyana at Nova
Gao Ling at Zheng Bo
Yu Yang at Hanbin.......

Girl power la~~ seems all the man bent on women knees...^^V
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But in terms of smash in the game, men power:D:D
But not sure if this will be the same if Du Jing is to pair up with 1 of the male player:p:o
 
Lilyana vs Nova

is similar to Ma Jin vs Zheng Bo -- The girl is young and inexperienced, while the partner is already an established figure in the XD circuit. Different from Gao Ling vs Zheng Bo and Yu Yang vs He Hanbin (the latter more like Gao Ling vs Zheng Jun).

I have been impressed by Lilyana's confidence on court since 2004 China Open. :D
 
I don't see Lilyana getting pissed off. She's so calm on court.

She needs a partner who's a great smasher as she's very great in putting out the phase and gently placing the shuttle in the right spot.

I've seen Rijal/Susanto play. Unfortunately, Debbie's defence is not that strong yet. Now, talk about LiLyana, she has this ability to calmly defend and return the shuttle in an open space.

Rijal is promising. I hope their partnership works out. They were able to reach the quarter finals at the Chinese Taipei grand prix gold. I hope they get used to each other soon.
 
I thought Nova played relatively well in yesterday's AE XD final but was not really well supported by Natsir. They could have won over the young China pair. :(
 
Indeed, Nova was stellar but Natsir lack her normal sharpness. Quite a number of unforced errors from trying too hard to control the direction and pace.
 
weeyeh said:
Indeed, Nova was stellar but Natsir lack her normal sharpness. Quite a number of unforced errors from trying too hard to control the direction and pace.
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Yup. And I think Lily's smash isn't too hard and let the opponent easily return.
She's more a deceptive and controller player but in AE2010, she wasn't her.
Feel sad for Nova, he should have won his first and probably last AE title.
 
But I thought Nova was also contributing his fair share of errors, made towards the end of the 3rd set. That characteristics of his is still there, especially in nervy moments.
 
ya know..

badMania said:
But I thought Nova was also contributing his fair share of errors, made towards the end of the 3rd set. That characteristics of his is still there, especially in nervy moments.
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..sometimes when i watched his body language and facial expressions, i too can get nervy...what with his habit of blinking his eyes and looking a bit confused..
 
badMania said:
But I thought Nova was also contributing his fair share of errors, made towards the end of the 3rd set. That characteristics of his is still there, especially in nervy moments.
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Nova did contribute some errors as his characteristics. Lily didn't commit too much errors as well. But Lily didn't provide winners as many as she used to. She missed some sure points at the front with her usual interceptions. While she was at the back side, she was definitely not deadly. None of her smashes did kill ZN/ZYL or made ZN/ZYL return an easy shot. Meanwhile ZYL was so good to cover average Zhang Nan, although not flawless as well. On the other hand, ZN/ZYL defense was excellent.
 
hopefully after AE, Lilyana is focus to find her suitable partner and Nove guide his junior like Debby, Richi, Pia, Shendy, or Keshya. We still need his guidence to groom those players
 
now that we know nova is on the brink of retirement from international circuits, is there any info on what he'll be doing after he is retired?i hope he chooses to coach the INA youngsters as he's very experienced in the mixed doubles field...maybe take the position as an assistant coach next to aryono?perhaps? :p but i agree with PoLLuX, hope he stays on the circuit for a while longer guiding one of the girls to become more like lilyana ;)
 
nick.h said:
now that we know nova is on the brink of retirement from international circuits, is there any info on what he'll be doing after he is retired?i hope he chooses to coach the INA youngsters as he's very experienced in the mixed doubles field...maybe take the position as an assistant coach next to aryono?perhaps? :p but i agree with PoLLuX, hope he stays on the circuit for a while longer guiding one of the girls to become more like lilyana ;)
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He has no one to guide as all have partners now...he will play with Butet on different tournaments...so Butet has "2 husbands":D:D
Richi is pairing with junior Rizky? ( nephew of Yanti, very tall guy...quite good)..they will be playing at Vietnam Challenge
 
huangkwokhau said:
He has no one to guide as all have partners now...he will play with Butet on different tournaments...so Butet has "2 husbands":D:D
Richi is pairing with junior Rizky? ( nephew of Yanti, very tall guy...quite good)..they will be playing at Vietnam Challenge
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Richi Puspita is now paired with Mohd Rizky Dellynugraha (the former partner of Rendy Sugiarto in Pratama last year)?
 
I think Lily and Ahmad will do good.Ahmad's playstyle is similar to Nova,so i guess Lily won't have so many troubles on getting used to play with him.Good luck for both of them.Good luck for Nova also,for whatever he's up to after this.
 
I read something at badzine today that Lilyana will still play with Nova at the superseries, wow if that's true I'm really happy about that.
 
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