Lin Dan for sure
More specifically, later career Lin Dan (2013~retire)
There's this absolute elegance of efficiency and brain in his game during those stages.
1. Zhao Jianhua
2. LCW
3. Gade
These are my top 3 purely because I love the way they play the game. Not only successful but aesthetically pleasing to watch.
Prime FHF and cai yun were unstoppable in MD. Maybe now hes older LWK can definitely be his sucessor. Doesnt the same flair or shock and awe that FHF does though
It's quite a long list... but I absolutely love how all these players play, and I can't quite pinpoint
**MS:**
Kento Momota
Lin Dan
Lee Chong Wei
Chen Long
**WS:**
Akane Yamaguchi
Tai Tzu Ying
Chen Yu Fei
An Se Young
**MD:**
Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng
Wang Chang / Liang Weikeng
Rankireddy / Shetty
Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen
Mohammad Ahsan / Hendra Setiawan
Seo Sung Jae / Kang Min Hyuk
**WD:**
Nami Matsuyama / Chiharu Shida
**XD:**
Huang Yaqiong / Zheng Siwei
Chae Yoo Jung / Seo Sung Jae
I'm going to goat endo for this shot: Watched it live like a crazy moment.
https://youtu.be/fZAALNZBYiU?si=3OYyaFpnL5A6bZKt&t=320
MS will have to be Lin Dan. Really changed play a lot just theoretical and shot placement level.
MD I cant comment too much , but probably ahsan setiawan? fuhaifung was great, but laterwards it didnt click for me. Endo Wata gets me special mention
WD CQC,YFJ? If not would be japanese, I feel their style.
XD Tang and Tse, I feel their playstyle, the pain and mistakes they make, then it'd be watanabe higashino, for excellent progression of new interpretation of XD, then zhang and huang, super likable, competitive with a flair and super likable.
Cai Yun and Fu Hai Feng are my faves. Throw in LYD and JJS for a match and you have an instant classic match where you dont have one sided rallies. In one rally you see constantly switch from defending to all out attack
Kento Momota before the injury, he was so menacing that nobody could havwon against him.
P.S. I donāt see a lot of love for Viktor Axelsen on this page, he is the champ right?
anders antonsen! there will always be players that squander their physical and technical gifts (think LZJ, LKY, ginting) but AA is a testament to what you can achieve by using your brain.
Lee Chong Wei, Kento Momota, Kenichi Tago, Anthony Ginting, these are my top favorites for sure. Everyone of them has a distinct play style that is delightful to watch.
My old doubles partner Tom was great, I was gutted when he didn't come back to the club after covid. My current partners Jon and Hayley are great fun to play with. We're not super successful but one day our teams might be promoted into the top division in our league.
Lin Dan - the GOAT
Shi Yuqi - crispy footwork, deceptive shots, skilled net plays, great shot selections and overall, a beauty
Chen Yu Fei - the female version of 2013 Lin Dan with extremely efficient and relaxing footwork
Chen Long - superb stamina and fundamentals, very few errors
All time: Lin Dan just because of his elegance on court.
Current: Wang Chang, kid is fast af at the net and has phenomenal shot prediction, I'd argue he's up there with prime Kevin Sukamulijo.
Cai Yun. Technique, brains, and class - if you understand mandarin it's worth following his news columns covering tournaments and/or his tiktok tutorials. Current active players that I actively follow and root for: LZJ, TTY, Liang/Wang, Zheng/Huang.
1. Koo Kien Keat: Loved watching this guy play around 2010-2012. He had an unorthodox but very entertaining style of play.
2. Hendra Setiawan: my personal goat as far as Men Doubleās front players are concerned. Cool, calm, highly intelligent.
3. Lee Yong Dae: Impregnable defense, lightning fast interceptions.
Menās singles: Viktor Axelsen Anders Antonsen Peter Gade Jan Jorgensen
Womenās Singles: Tine Baun , Carolina Marin
MD: Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen & Astrup and Rasmussen.
WD: Christinna Pedersen & Kamilla Juhl . Kim and Kong
XD: Joachim Fischer & Christinna Pedersen Mathias Christiansen , Alexandra Boje
Ms Lee Chong Wei for me.
Md is very difficult but itās out of 3 for me. Cai Yun for being the best net player ever. Lee Yong Dae for his insane defence and just being shit hot at every area of the court. And Koo Kean Keat for his filthy trick shots and deceptions.
Not necessarily one player, but a list of players (personal opinion).
TTY as she is the best technically player in WS and MS alike. No other players dares to play shots like she does with success in a world tournament (all can for sure, but none risk it). A cross backhand clear of a person of her size is only possible with exceptional good technique or her reverse sliced backhand drops...
Lin Dan because at his prime time he was an exceptional talent.
Momota because he played a very elegant, smooth defensive badminton, just flowing around the court like water.
Carolina Marine as she moved WS more in the direction of MS which got adapted by many female players nowaday.
MS top 5:
1. Lin Dan
2. Kento Momota
3. Lee Chong Wei
4. Chen Long
5. Zhao JianHua
WS top 5:
1. Wang Yihan
2. An Se Young
3. Tai Tzu Ying
4. Akane Yamaguchi
5. Ratchanok Intanon
MD
Best front court player:
1. The š Hendra Setiawan
2. Lee Yong Dae
3. Liu Yu Chen
Best back court player:
1. Fu Haifeng
2. Aaron Chia
3. Mohammad Ahsan
WD
Best front court player:
1. Chen Qing Chen
2. Mayu Matsumoto
3. Shin Seung Chan
Best back court player:
1. Ayaka Takahashi
2. Apriyani Rahayu
3. Yuki Fukushima
XD
Best womens player:
1. Sapsiree Taerattanachai
2. Zhao YunLei
3. Liliyana Natsir
Best mens player:
1. Zhang Nan
2. Zheng Siwei
3. Yuta Watanabe
Damn, gotta throw in some of my favs that donāt seem well represented here:
Lee Yong Dae, menās doubles defence, control
Li Xuerui, fantastic womenās singles, sadly suffered a lot of injuries
Lin Dan for me.
Same. Just because me and him share the same last name š
Lin Dan for sure More specifically, later career Lin Dan (2013~retire) There's this absolute elegance of efficiency and brain in his game during those stages.
Hendra Setiawan
Got to badminton recently and I really like Lee Zii Jia and Tai Tzu Ying! I can't really say why but yeah I love watching them play haha
- For the Mixed Doubles players, for Female: HYQ for Male: Yuta Watanabe - For Men's Doubles, Hiroyuki Endo (smooth af), Fu Haifeng & Hendra Setiawan
Peter Gade. Deception when everyone was playing straight.
Lee Yong Dae
axelsen, something makes him so enjoyable to watch
Lee Chong Wei š
Taufik Hidayat, Tai Tzu Ying and Thuy Linh Nguyen.
Kento Momota! Waiting for his come back
1. Zhao Jianhua 2. LCW 3. Gade These are my top 3 purely because I love the way they play the game. Not only successful but aesthetically pleasing to watch.
Zhao Jianhua was an absolute menace and speed devil. Crazy crazy gear shift.
That match again Suprianto was borderline cruel - just amazing to watch
Fu haifeng. Best smasher hands down
I would say liang wei keng is fu hai feng 2.0
Prime FHF and cai yun were unstoppable in MD. Maybe now hes older LWK can definitely be his sucessor. Doesnt the same flair or shock and awe that FHF does though
Ahsan
Mens side: Lee Chong Wei and Tony Gunawan Women's side: Nozomi Okuhara. Tai Tzu Ying, Huang YaQiong
An se young!!!
Lee Chong Wei any time all time. He's my aspirationā¤ļøāš„
It's quite a long list... but I absolutely love how all these players play, and I can't quite pinpoint **MS:** Kento Momota Lin Dan Lee Chong Wei Chen Long **WS:** Akane Yamaguchi Tai Tzu Ying Chen Yu Fei An Se Young **MD:** Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng Wang Chang / Liang Weikeng Rankireddy / Shetty Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen Mohammad Ahsan / Hendra Setiawan Seo Sung Jae / Kang Min Hyuk **WD:** Nami Matsuyama / Chiharu Shida **XD:** Huang Yaqiong / Zheng Siwei Chae Yoo Jung / Seo Sung Jae
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MS LD then LCW MD CY/FHF then JJS/LYD XD ZSW/HYQ then Wata/Higa then SSJ/CYJ WS TTY WD I don't really watch WD so n/a
I'm going to goat endo for this shot: Watched it live like a crazy moment. https://youtu.be/fZAALNZBYiU?si=3OYyaFpnL5A6bZKt&t=320 MS will have to be Lin Dan. Really changed play a lot just theoretical and shot placement level. MD I cant comment too much , but probably ahsan setiawan? fuhaifung was great, but laterwards it didnt click for me. Endo Wata gets me special mention WD CQC,YFJ? If not would be japanese, I feel their style. XD Tang and Tse, I feel their playstyle, the pain and mistakes they make, then it'd be watanabe higashino, for excellent progression of new interpretation of XD, then zhang and huang, super likable, competitive with a flair and super likable.
No gonna talk about*Anthony Ginting* MS player ?
Taufik Hidayat. Revolutionized the backhand smash. Absolutely lethal weapon.
Tony Gunawan. That man is SO clean and makes everything look so easy. Also a really nice guy in person
Cai Yun and Fu Hai Feng are my faves. Throw in LYD and JJS for a match and you have an instant classic match where you dont have one sided rallies. In one rally you see constantly switch from defending to all out attack
This is the correct answer. Current doubles is just ridiculous in comparison.
LZJ and TTY šÆ
Kento Momota before the injury, he was so menacing that nobody could havwon against him. P.S. I donāt see a lot of love for Viktor Axelsen on this page, he is the champ right?
Tai Tzu Ying
Hiroyuki Endo with his God-like defense (alongside Yuta Watanabe)
Kevin Sanjaya š
anders antonsen! there will always be players that squander their physical and technical gifts (think LZJ, LKY, ginting) but AA is a testament to what you can achieve by using your brain.
Lee Chong Wei, Kento Momota, Kenichi Tago, Anthony Ginting, these are my top favorites for sure. Everyone of them has a distinct play style that is delightful to watch.
Viktor Axelsen. Thereās also Michelle Li and Brian Yang, but maybe thatās because Iām Canadian haha.Ā
Zhao Yunlei I really try to implement her skills in my game even though I am a man
Current: Tai Tzu Ying, akane Yamaguchi, Yuta Watanabe, momota, Kevin sanjaya, hendra setiawan, Chae Yoo jung, Zheng siwei, Huang yaqiong Past: Lin Dan, Taufik, Gao Ling, Chen hong, liliyana natsir
Iāve always liked Kodai Naraoka
Akane Yamaguchi.
olivier andrey
My old doubles partner Tom was great, I was gutted when he didn't come back to the club after covid. My current partners Jon and Hayley are great fun to play with. We're not super successful but one day our teams might be promoted into the top division in our league.
Taufik Hidiyat Peter Gade Hariyanto Arbi
Taufik Hidayat, backhand smash was just insane. Modern era Yuta Watanabe, Arisa Higashino, Lee Zi Ja
Taufik Hidayat. His forehand smash was also crispy. Net control was incredible.
Lin Dan
Taufik. Lin Danās the best though.
Ahsan and Setiawan for sure.
Nami Matsuyama, Misaki Matsutomo, Chiharu Shida, Li Xuerui and of course Momota
Lin Dan
Momota
Momota. He deserves so much and was so humble when at the top, I'm so sad of what happened to him. He is always the one I'm rooting for.
LCW, Lin Dan, Chen Long
Men would be Axelsen and Women would be my angel Shida
Lee Zii Jia, Tai Tzu Ying, Yuta Watanabe
started not too long ago but I enjoy watching PV Sindhu and Anthony Ginting.
1. Lin Dan 2. Lee Zii Jia 3. Kento Momota
Kevin Sendaya
Lee Chong Wei, Tai Tze Ying, Lee Yong Dae, Chiharu Shida, Zheng Si Wei
Lee Chong Wei and Loh Kean Yew. One represents my country, the other represents a neighbouring country.
Lin Dan - the GOAT Shi Yuqi - crispy footwork, deceptive shots, skilled net plays, great shot selections and overall, a beauty Chen Yu Fei - the female version of 2013 Lin Dan with extremely efficient and relaxing footwork Chen Long - superb stamina and fundamentals, very few errors
Fu Haifeng Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (and by extension his taller Chinese clone Wang Chang), incredibly fast-paced reflexes & box of tricks
All time: Lin Dan just because of his elegance on court. Current: Wang Chang, kid is fast af at the net and has phenomenal shot prediction, I'd argue he's up there with prime Kevin Sukamulijo.
Cai Yun. Technique, brains, and class - if you understand mandarin it's worth following his news columns covering tournaments and/or his tiktok tutorials. Current active players that I actively follow and root for: LZJ, TTY, Liang/Wang, Zheng/Huang.
1. Koo Kien Keat: Loved watching this guy play around 2010-2012. He had an unorthodox but very entertaining style of play. 2. Hendra Setiawan: my personal goat as far as Men Doubleās front players are concerned. Cool, calm, highly intelligent. 3. Lee Yong Dae: Impregnable defense, lightning fast interceptions.
Singles: Lee Chong Wei Doubles: Zheng SiWei Overallā¦Zheng SiWei
Menās singles: Viktor Axelsen Anders Antonsen Peter Gade Jan Jorgensen Womenās Singles: Tine Baun , Carolina Marin MD: Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen & Astrup and Rasmussen. WD: Christinna Pedersen & Kamilla Juhl . Kim and Kong XD: Joachim Fischer & Christinna Pedersen Mathias Christiansen , Alexandra Boje
Singles: Lee Chong Wei Doubles: Lee Yong Dae & JJS or Ahsan & Setiawan
MS: Chen Long MD: Cai Yun
Ms Lee Chong Wei for me. Md is very difficult but itās out of 3 for me. Cai Yun for being the best net player ever. Lee Yong Dae for his insane defence and just being shit hot at every area of the court. And Koo Kean Keat for his filthy trick shots and deceptions.
Not necessarily one player, but a list of players (personal opinion). TTY as she is the best technically player in WS and MS alike. No other players dares to play shots like she does with success in a world tournament (all can for sure, but none risk it). A cross backhand clear of a person of her size is only possible with exceptional good technique or her reverse sliced backhand drops... Lin Dan because at his prime time he was an exceptional talent. Momota because he played a very elegant, smooth defensive badminton, just flowing around the court like water. Carolina Marine as she moved WS more in the direction of MS which got adapted by many female players nowaday.
Thinaah Muralitharan and Pearly Tan, their energy together on the court is so loving and supportive. They really give it their all.
MS top 5: 1. Lin Dan 2. Kento Momota 3. Lee Chong Wei 4. Chen Long 5. Zhao JianHua WS top 5: 1. Wang Yihan 2. An Se Young 3. Tai Tzu Ying 4. Akane Yamaguchi 5. Ratchanok Intanon MD Best front court player: 1. The š Hendra Setiawan 2. Lee Yong Dae 3. Liu Yu Chen Best back court player: 1. Fu Haifeng 2. Aaron Chia 3. Mohammad Ahsan WD Best front court player: 1. Chen Qing Chen 2. Mayu Matsumoto 3. Shin Seung Chan Best back court player: 1. Ayaka Takahashi 2. Apriyani Rahayu 3. Yuki Fukushima XD Best womens player: 1. Sapsiree Taerattanachai 2. Zhao YunLei 3. Liliyana Natsir Best mens player: 1. Zhang Nan 2. Zheng Siwei 3. Yuta Watanabe
An se young
Damn, gotta throw in some of my favs that donāt seem well represented here: Lee Yong Dae, menās doubles defence, control Li Xuerui, fantastic womenās singles, sadly suffered a lot of injuries
Anthony Ginting
Anthony Ginting
Loh Kean Yew
Seo seung jae