22nd May For me, only the below 3 matches are interesting. The rest are quite one sided. Thomas Cup - Chinese Taipei vs Hong Kong - Indonesia vs Thailand I don't think Thailand will prevailed but I think they will try to fight which will makes it a little interesting. Uber Cup - South Korea vs Denmark
he's back for a while now if you meant his first retirement. He already won some international challenge and get to semifinal in super300. http://www.siamsport.co.th/badminton/otherleague/view/68767) this is the news written in thai, sorry I can't find any news in english, but you can see the picture of him and bodin together and the date is 12/5/2018 (2561 Buddhist year). The news also states that they will start their first tournament in 14-17/6 spanish international challenge.
The big difference is that Zhou is now coaching on-court instead -- the usual practice is 1 team coach + 1 personal coach, meaning that only coaches directly involved in the player's training/ development are "qualified" to coach him on-court. In his autobiography, Lin Dan "criticized" coaches (aka Li Yongbo) that want to be ""repesented" on-court despite never having trained with the player. BTW, with the CHN national coaching set-up being so *cough-cough* "exclusive", there're lots of Chinese badminton coaches working overseas as technical/ training "assistants" or whatever; even Denmark has had one for some 20 years...
Yesterday's big match witnessed Indonesia Uber team cleared Malaysia hurdle, 3-2. The long duration interesting tie delivers INA women's team to check into quarterfinal spot considering they would tackle French this morning. Malaysia led 1-0 earlier through Sonia Cheah who overcame Fitriani then Polii/Rahayu leveled the scoreline 1-1. The key factor for Indonesia was determined by second women's singles match when reigning WJC Gregoria Mariska Tunjung downed 2015 WJC Goh Jin Wei. The Malaysian wasted good chance when had hefty lead 14-7 but then lost focus as Tunjung closed the gap and took crucial opening game, 22-20, this circumstances certainly contributing psychological aspect to the Indonesian to win the encounter. Indonesian victory is decided by Haris/Pradipta who knocked out scratch pair Chow MK/Vivian Hoo in thrilling marathon match, 24-22 / 20-22 / 21-12. Selvaduray Kisona narrowed the defeat to saved match point against Ruselli Hartawan in last match, 21-23 / 23-21 / 21-13. Other Uber Cup results, Japan, Korea and Thailand have secured their quarterfinal berth after book second winning in group-stage matches. Thomas Cup title-holder Denmark started their campaign to outclass Algeria 5-0 also Malaysia knocked out Russia with 5-0 as well. Top-seed China shows their prowess to score another 5-0 result against French, Korea won 4-1 versus Canada, their second men's doubles retired. DAY-3 GROUP MATCHES => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...57097B-20D5-4CF4-8E22-7138EE7565DC&d=20180522 Session 1 (09.00am) UBER Cup : - CHN v MAS (court 1) : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...057097B-20D5-4CF4-8E22-7138EE7565DC&match=138 China fields strong line-up, Chen Yufei and Chen QC/Jia YF show up in this tie. - INA v FRA (court 4) : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...057097B-20D5-4CF4-8E22-7138EE7565DC&match=142 Indonesia rests Fitriani and will try their experimenting doubles pair, Haris/Istarani and Maheswari/Rahayu. THOMAS Cup : - DEN v RUS (court 2) : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...0057097B-20D5-4CF4-8E22-7138EE7565DC&match=59 It's possibly Denmark main roster that we may see in knock-out stages, they bench Anders Antonsen who replaced by the vast experienced Hans Kristian Vittinghus as second singles. - JPN v GER (court 3) : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...0057097B-20D5-4CF4-8E22-7138EE7565DC&match=47 Marc Zwiebler will play third singles against Kanta Tsuneyama, Japan fields Endo/Watanabe instead of world #11 Inoue/Kaneko.
can't wait for tomorrow night MAS vs DEN, dunno whether LCW will be field as 1st single to play against VA, or LCW will get rest (sit on the bench) and field LZJ as 1st single to play against VA, either to get some experience or take risk to win a point...
I predict LCW will take a rest today. Since Axelsen is playing today, I think Axelsen will take a rest tomorrow (perhaps Denmark coach will do it). So, if LCW will play tomorrow... he will meet Anders Antonsen. Again, that's my prediction. Everything could happen at opposite way.
Damn! 21-3 for VA in the second set against Malkov. He's not messing around and showing that he's still strong after his surgery!
CYF is worrying me... Soniia is playing the control game, already won 1st set and now leading in 2nd set.
Well soniia...even though she lost but she did took 1 set off chen yufei who is not really mentally strong in team competition...maybe the whole china uber team is not mentally srong
Chen Yu Fei did it. Good fight from the Malaysian. The Chinese had not seemed to have overcome her nerves yet though up till the end.
Looks like MAS found their version of Wang Shixian? For those who don't remember, Wang "amble around the court" Shixian was the only CHN player to give Carolina Marin in her prime a lot of trouble with that cool control play....
Next up.. will Goh Jin Wei able to wrest the game away from He Bing Jiao who has never had good stamina should it go to 3 sets
MAS uber team is pathetic the WD pairs are so lame. What happens to Woon Khe Wei. The pair has been broken up and Woon Khe Wei is not included in the squad.
