Professional players and their racquets
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James blake
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Looks like Chen long and zhang Nan are sticking with li ning
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Source ?
If true then it must be a desperation attempt from LN to get them out of Legends Vision.
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Woesi
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Nice to see ZN still being around, seems that the rumors about his retirement will stay rumors (at least they are postponed).
Not very surprised with CL staying, after all he has been using the same pair of shoes and racket for pretty much the last 10 years, with the former being specifically manufactured for him and the later discontinued for 6 years or so (?).
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Good to see CL and ZN staying, all of the achievements are from LN. I have a feeling that LN will rope in more Chinese top players
The whole chinese national team is now under Yonex. We have seen them in Yonex attire already.
If pic show cl and zn still with Li Ning. Then I guess these are the only 2.
The rest already in Yonex cannot go back to Li Ning until contract ends in 2028.
So cannot understand what you mean Li Ning still wants to rope in top chinese players.
Its already a fact that China is with Yonex now.
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Yonex signed Chinese team, that doesn’t mean each individual cannot have their separate sponsor, Like yonex roped in Lin Dan when entire team was sponsored by Li Ning, It is just a hunch and many things can happen.
The main reason in my opinion for all this chaos is unlike past as lot or Chinese players are under performers and sponsoring all of them is not cost effective, so I think LN will rope in only top performers and of course legacy/signature players like CL and ZN.
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Any idea what the text says?
You forgot how CBA said LD's deal was one time off and only. No more future such bullshit.
LD was pulled to Yonex during LN's sponsorship era.
CL and ZN are remnants of the LN era, having personal contracts when CBA changed to Yonex, hence that's why LN were able to retain them. It is slightly different. They were not poached during an ongoing sponsorship deal, the way LD was.
But I believe as per Japan's Yuta's arrangement, shirts and bags will be Yonex as long as they play for the CBA and not independent. Racquet and shoe can be LN.
Top pic:
'21 Q2 competition wear
Interprete (in this case apply) the charm of the city
Bottom pic:
'21 Q2 competition wear
New modern era of style ONLINE!
(basically new modern design out now!)
As a side note, wtf is with ZN's hair loss? Dafuq?
And his racquet in the second pic looks like a Voltric 80 Etune. LOL.
But LN is a Chinese brand and they(CBA) can do as they wish so I won't write my hypothesis completely off.
They had personal contracts? I didn't know that.
I think Yuta's shirts and bags is contract between his employeer and Yonex.
That racket is Turbocharging 80, kind brownish/brickish red.
kaffars
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Well in that case why havent Lining rope in any of the XD players or CYF?
s_mair
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As long as we don't know any details of the actual contracts and the strategic thoughts of neither CBA, Yonex or Li-Ning, it's a complete waste of energy to prolong this discussion in here. At the moment, there is nothing more to do than seeing what happens and accepting the facts.
As @s_mair said let us not prolong argument here,
Everything I wrote is purely based on hunch and LN may (/ can) or may not (/ cannot) rope players.
All I am doing here is guessing game, cause isn't fun to estimate chinese stratagies?
Mystic_BBQ_Bun
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Well CYF just did an unboxing video for NF800 ARC11 and AX77 new color
SYQ has been teaching overhead cross court drop with AX88D new color
And other players are doing promotion video using Yonex stuff too
So it is pretty safe to say everyone other than CL and ZN will be switching to Yonex
SYQ has been teaching overhead cross court drop with AX88D new color
And other players are doing promotion video using Yonex stuff too
So it is pretty safe to say everyone other than CL and ZN will be switching to Yonex
James blake
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Is the Chinese badminton team set up like others? Are they independent perhaps? (Zhang Nan and chen long)
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Mystic_BBQ_Bun
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I don't know how they set up but it is just observation, ZN and CL are like the only ones absent in all Yonex promotion. We will find out soon when they start playing tournament in May.