Hassefar60
Regular Member
Slow shuttle, many "smashing and fast players" like Ginting, Lee Zii Jia, Viktor, Watanabe, Wang Chi Lin, Jordan, Sindhu, ... will find it hard.
In contrary, Momota, Kunlavut, An Se Young, Yamaguchi,... will get advantidge
I will not surprise if later Viktor will lost to Koki Watanabe
I think Viktor prefers a slow shuttle and little drift. That's one of the reasons why he dominated in SC and TC and then struggled initially in DO until they changed to a reasonable shuttle speed. So if VA loses to Koki, I would guess it would be because of difficulties controlling the drift thus forcing him to play more safe / further from the lines, effectively "making the court smaller".