Yeah sure. It was his tactic to pretend being outplayed by Ginting and didn't get any benefit from Ginting own mistakes. To me it was called got lucky in all sense of the word.
You lost me there... As much as I enjoy KM's style of play too (and other players) you come off as totally biased by not accepting the word "escaped" to describe the way he narrowly won that match. It almost slipped out of his hand and in no way he pro-actively planned this meeting with Ginting when you watch the match. He is the better player again today don't get me wrong but he suffered a lot and I doubt he will say he controlled today's game the way you believe he did in his post-match interview.
Looks like the talk about KM's victory will be quite long. I did watch most of the match and it's AG's unforced errors that contribute most of KM's points. Don't get me wrong, KM did score few winners. Hope I can make it clear.
“I felt my opponent played better than me today but I was able to capitalize when he got tired” - KM “He tried to push a little too hard in the second game but I kept telling myself to stay patient and never give up.” - KM Source: The Japan Times
Momota turned the table around in G2 when he had the chance. That was Momota's doing on his own. G3 was definitely Momota's outplayed Ginting. Nothing about luck in G3. Exactly why he is WR1. Ginting must learn this stay patient and never give up attitude from Momota. He got impatient and rushing toward the end of G2. Playing Momota it was the worst idea ever.
Hi Mr Frost (i believe you should be the real deal ) Welcome to the forum! I think its an honour to have one of badminton greats join in our forum discussions and exchange views on badminton! Look forward to your opinions and analysis Sent from my MI 6 using Tapatalk
Although I agree with you I would add that lots of great battles are an escape for the winner. That's why they are great - chances are equal but one side finds a tiny path to the victory. It's like an escape.
Just think of the situation that Momota lose in Tokyo 2020, then "Baddy" here will talk about his failure in a thousand year with great mood of winning 100 million dollars.
Sorry to disappoint you, I do not think he is the real deal. I think he is actually CLELY from this group.
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You know,when Lin Dan was one game down and trailing 12-19 in G2 against Chou Tien Chen in R1 of the MAS Open the other week, I described it as a Houdini-like escape for Lin Dan to come back and win it 21-19, 9 points on the trot before taking G3 and the match. I mean, when Ginting was thumping Momota 21-10 in G1 and leading 16-11 in G2 before the latter fought his way back to equalize it with 21-19, that is equivalent to a (narrow) escape in normal parlance. I think even Momota's words at the post-match interview indirectly attest to that, thanks to LenaicM for posting it. To use Morten Frost's words: How sure are you that your plan will work? How sure are you that you in the eleventh hour will win? Nobody can be sure, that's the beauty of sport.
First of all come out of your romance talks and think before you write. If momota wins, then he is the real world no.1 as some guy mentioned here but what about when he lost. So, according to @Kento, he is not real world no.1. Am I right?. If you can't tolerate this , then you are the one who need reality check. Why should I talk about his failure for million years?. Lol. Just hysterical fans.
You will never know. I still think of CLERY even though she changed her style BUT certain style that she used in the past doesn't change, especially when writing a summary after an event.
@Kento trolling away, everybody falling for it. Clearly another bad finals performance by KM today - basically no winners (compare to the qf against the same player in Indonesia), lots of unforced errors, way too passive. As @LenaicM has shown, Momota acknowledged as much himself. The only positive thing for him to take away from this, is that he scraped through on willpower and with the help of a flurry of errors by Ginting in both G2 and 3. He needs to address finals performances like the WTF, Indonesia and today, where he obviously played below his own standards.
G3 was actually the correct game plan because Ginting is not going to last that long as long as Momota keep his pace. For me, his worse performance is still in G1. I don't think there was any plan on that one. Don't be mistaken, Ginting did play brilliantly at very high level but Momota could have lost G2 because of G1.