It may be the end yet. But LYB may need to start worry. Look the the recent tourments.
MS - other than LD, who else? CJ does not prove himself as LD's successor yet.
WS - ZN, XXF no longer plays in every tournament final. And they even started losing in early rounds. ZL won WC, but she has been inconsistent.
MD - Tan/Koo and MD from INA seem to able to find ways beat Cai/Fu.
WD - Still dominate, but othen than Zhang Yawen, the rest are not young any more.
XD - Gao/Bo and Widianto/Natsir are 50/50.
heh Xball, its ok they can laugh (people like you) but its only going to be tears on your face when your whole national team gets wiped off the face of the planet in next year's olympics
and where does your national team stand?![]()
When LYB is not around to coach or support, he's saying his player will lose.When I saw BCL giving tips to LD, and LD giving tips to XXF, It seems that China is not giving their 100%, would they do that in the olympic ?. Anyway, a win is a win, congratulations to the winners.
You're right.LD's starting to realise...That's why his tournament attitude now is to play his best rather than play to win.Guys its a game, you win some you lose some.
No one will win continuously forever
I bet he is an emigrant from China, definitely not ex Malaysian from the way he talks.![]()
Next will be Nguyen Tieh Minh (VIE), Chan Yan Kit (HK), Simon n Andre (INA), Anup (IND), Poompat (THA), Kendrick (SIN), Arif (MAS).....The key here is not so much whether China can continue their dominance, but rather whether other countries can sustain their challenge.
I mean 5-6 years down the road, I'm quite certain China will show case 1-2 LD's calibre players, but can Malaysia produce another LCW or can Indonesia produce another TH to continue the challenge?
Next will be Nguyen Tieh Minh (VIE), Chan Yan Kit (HK), Simon n Andre (INA), Anup (IND), Poompat (THA), Kendrick (SIN), Arif (MAS).....![]()
You're right.LD's starting to realise...That's why his tournament attitude now is to play his best rather than play to win.
Beg to differ here. It takes 3 years of international experience to produce a champion. Right now CHN MS is only CJ from his batch.INA has SDK and SS who can upset CJ.MAS has a few promising ones,still very much getting exposure. CHN MS 5-6 years later looks outnumbered by non-CHN...The key here is not so much whether China can continue their dominance, but rather whether other countries can sustain their challenge.
I mean 5-6 years down the road, I'm quite certain China will show case 1-2 LD's calibre players, but can Malaysia produce another LCW or can Indonesia produce another TH to continue the challenge?
look at current world ranking
it still more red colour flag with a yellow stars in MS, WS, WD
they're still the conquerer
Another interesting topic. Nobody seems to have touched on the fact that at 28 Tine Rasmussen has never come close to pulling off a result like this one. She has always been a good player, but certainly one that you would never believe could beat 5 chinese players to win a major tournament.
I think the super series has changed the dynamics of the big events to some degree, no soft draws against someone ranked 67 in the world anymore, so it will be interesting to see the results over the next year or so.
Will China continue to dominate? I think for the foreseeable future yes, they still have the biggest player pool by a long long way, due to the fact that they start and train hard at a younger age than many other nations, and of course when you have a population of 1.3 billion you have an enormous head start. Compare this to the other major nations Indonesia 234m, Malaysia 25m, Denmark just 5.5m, United Kingdom 60m, it is a massive advantage.
One thing that is almost certain though, eventually the dynasty will fall, in all walks of life things go in cycles, and some day another country will be the major force in the sport, who knows when or for how long? Nobody thought the Roman empire would fall but of course it did.
For now though the chinese fans should be able to sleep at night knowing they are pretty much guaranteed to pick up at least 2 of the 5 titles at every major tournament for the time being.
For the long term benefit of the sport the quicker the rest of the world can catch up, and challenge the chinese for honours the more secure the future of the game will be.