This is Lin Dan's twilight edition. Still his court coverage and shot placement is really impressive. Only thing lacking is his power. But he compensated it by precision and patience. True Legend.
And even then his court coverage is so slow and limited compared to his golden years. Look how much he struggles with front court movement compared to his early days
You haven't seen the real power of Lin Dan, go and watch his matches of 2008 to 2012. He was extremely offensive especially around 2008 and very fast. Gradually he changed his style idk why
@@vinitakaushik4796 because his body could no longer cope with the aggressive style from 2014. He really struggled with front court movement and explosive rear rear court movement. I think he had major knee problems.
One legend on his way out VS a legend in the making.. that's the beauty of racquet sports. Lin Dan's past his prime, lacking in speed and power but has immense experience and amazing footwork playing against a much younger, stronger and taller opponent. Every lob to the back of the court becomes a 3 quarter shot because of Axelsen's reach. Lin Dan's strategy is to slow down the game and force the opponent to play to his tempo while the younger and hungrier Axelsen is trying to ramp the game up.
@@cyrilleyong9615 Axelsen is an idiot who has no skill, and has to rely on him being tall to have an advantage over others. Put him into his category, with a 20% increased size of the court, and lets see how good he really is. He's just a tall baby boy who gets emo whenever he doesn't get what he wants.
Lin Dan conserved his energy for the first two sets and played Tai-Chi with Axelsen, then sped up in (the second half of) the last set to finish him off - true legend!
Watch Lin Dan for 2 decades. This match seems like he is in slow motion. And it's impressive that Axelson can move that fast and very skillful, he is 194 cm tall!
Nobody dares to celebrate a victory the way Lin Dan celebrates it ... its just the domineering way his personality is, it shows through not just in his playing style ....
I like this match, thanks for that, but, whoever edited this match is completely biased towards victor rather than l dan Any how ld is match winner, but still you shows all his mistakes only rather than va. i just feels like that, I could be wrong. Thanks.
Li Dan no 1 , li chong wei no 2 diera kegemilangan zaman nye . Sekrang ini li zie jhia , keto mamota , victor , antony ginting , jonatan saling bertukar kemenangan . Dan mereka ada lah antara yng terbaik sekarang .
I remember steen once said that lin dan was lucky in this final against viktor as it was clear that viktor was playing the better of the two and overall controlling the whole match.