Congratulations to the winners.
XD was a match between Olympic silver medalist vs World Champion. China did very well.
Apriyani and Siti did extremely well to win their 1st S1000 tournament.
Hoki and Kobayashi is always consistent when they are in form.
Ratchanok also did well after her last win in 2020 tournament by beating the OG. CYF. She also beat 2 other China players before this. Amazing. Only Wong Mew Choo did the same.
Viktor is still in very good form. Momota form is still lousy. Hope he can make a comeback. Tough. Lucky to have walkovers. Momota was fresh against Vitid in semis. Thai xd pair did well to beat China OG in Semis. Ginting had a hard time with Viktor. LZJ was injured in IO and didn't do well in MO with hip injury.
This tournament is a preparation for next week Indonesian Open.
Congrats to the big guns for winning. Notably Viktor beating CTC and Chen YF beating RI. Both winners are just 1 classs or level above their opponents.
Notable mention are
Ginting managed to beat LZJ in quarters. LZJ seems to be having right hip problem.
Lakshya and Loh Kean Yew were beaten by CTC. Still a very experienced players even though he is aging. Quite and exciting game between CTC and LKY.
Sindhu lost to Ratchanok.
Well done to Alfian and Ardianto for winning MD.
Congratulations to Korean Women and India mens team for winning the famous trophy. This is the first for India and they demolished Indonesia 3-0. Korea did well to upset China. No one knows what the Chinese WZY did to win ABC and then lost to an unknown Korean player in 3WS. Complacent maybe?
Some worth mentioned moments.
For Malaysian Uber team, they lost to Denmark narrowly. They should have put in the veterans like LPJ and Shevon Lai for 2nd doubles. Malaysia could have qualified for quarter finals.
For Malaysia TC team, the coaches gambled on 1st double to beat India, its a mistake because they did not do their homework to check the head to head record. Another messed up opportunity. No one in the Management team takes responsibility. Points fingers at each other.
For Japan TC team, someone needs to fix Momota, his form is horrendous. He needs a new coach to change his style of play. Too defensive. 1MD also disappoints.
Lakshya Sen did well to win the 1st match against Indonesia to get the ball rolling. Confidence builds up. Gintin should have close the match in 2 games. As for Indonesia, they also did a mistake to have Ahsan and Kevin to play 1st MD. It backfired.
For Denmark vs India, Gemke must be dreaming. Same goes to Antonsen. These 2 guys did not show up.
Japan Uber was disappointing as well against Korea. No one showed up.
Lastly for Singapore. They have good young singles player but unfortunately there is no focus on them. Too bad. Singapore will live with 1 single player at the moment. Need someone to kick butts in SBA.
The year of the underdogs. Good for badminton.
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