the question is can the coach apply such pressure, and will the players comply? I guess the answer is yes to both for team CHN, not quite sure about the others. KOR is most certainly yes. DEN, may be. ENG, not a chance!
hafiz is under hendrawan and lcw is under misbun there is not the mastermind behind all malaysian coach like china have lyb
look from another perspective, I think the fundamental conflict is that CHN effectively (or administratively) treats badminton as a team sport rather than individual sport... therefore team discipline / honour prevails everything... for example even in the most professional soccer team, a coach like Alex Ferguson could determine which player to play what role in a match, could determine whether they are allowed to be in the starting line-up that he thought standing best chance for winning the game, or determine to send 2nd players for a match (like last night) that he thought not important, or to skip from competitions (like he did to MU in a cup competition (FA Cup??) a few years ago)... or even sell the player who didn't obey him (like LYB did to WC/ZM and AF did to Beckham and the like)... ... and even more play into the grey areas of the rules exist in sports like soccer or NBA matches... dive, fake injury,... tricks are inevitably part of the game, unfortunately, even in the most professional sports... unless we call for a 100% trick-free (which I don't think it's possible) rules for sports, or put certain tricks into criminal offences (like team-ordering rules in F1, which was in fact based on other vested-interest reasons), tricks would still exist as long as they are not offending any existing writting law or sports rules... and people would play tricks for maximum benefits... here is the question, why people tolerates such coah-order-and-players-complied things in other sports but not badminton (as both are serving the purpose of the team's benefit only)??? unless it involves criminal offences (like bribery, or match-fixing due to illegal gambling, etc...) so it's just a conflict of philosophy.
the Chinese Team still able to grab 3 titles (WS, WD and XD) without sending the full team... the rest of the world really need to catch up...
updated with AE & SO 2010 Lee Chong Wei (MAS) becomes the most single titles winner with 12, and the most double titles belong to Yu Yang (CHN) with 16. One of the top winner is Zhang Yawen has 9 titles with 5 different partners.
of course, you're right. interesting to follow them two as they are both young and active. also, both with 1 olympics gold as well.
They have 16 each playing separately. If you combined them the titles will be less. You know what I mean?
Hey it was a somewhat joke I meant, as they are the best men/women in ss-titles-winning, perhaps a combo should won even more
looking forward from alany statistic data after indonesia open glad to saw 2 new flag on it singapore and chinese taipei!!! hopefully will add japan flag tomorow!!! and russia flag!!!
Will LCW make it 13? Well, he is definitely the most successful player on the Super Series I only wish that he can win this WC before he goes off! Good job, AlanY! Request sticky...