Can LD win in INA territory?(Has he?) Probably not.The atmosphere would be too humid to LD's liking. BCL likely to fare better than LD in TC.
LD and friends had delivered China Thomas Team gained back the supremacy in 2004 (after 14 years long time sleep since 1990 TC's victory) at same venue with this year event, Istora Senayan Jakarta -- CHN beat KOR 3-0 in semi and DEN 3-1 in final. For individual tournament, it seems LD avoid INA Open, last time he participated IO was 2004 edition (December/04).
CHN is still strong favourite this time but winning chance between title holder and the other seedings (INA-MAS-DEN) is quite balance now. And KOR team is the surprise maker who may shock any participant.
Lin Dan (20 yrs) as MS1 (once again, MS1 not MS2) played all 5 matches and won all of them!
consider CHN haven't strong MD, so there was a heavy pressure on LD.
a do or die match. if he lose, most probably CHN was trail 0-2. it's the end!
if that's the case, CHN can say goodbye for the title, and they must wait for another 2 yrs!
but, in the end, Lin Dan proved to the world that HE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD! HE IS THE REAL WORLD #1 WITHOUT HELPS FROM BWF!