(First of all, let me state that I am a senior football fan who has been watching football for 6 years. I admire Momota very much but I am definitely not Momobuki. I just want to objectively talk to you about the best men's singles player of this era.) Let me talk about myself fi

(First of all, let me state that I am a senior football fan who has been watching football for 6 years. I admire Momota very much but I am definitely not Momobuki. I just want to objectively talk to you about the best men's singles player of this era)

Let me talk first. Let’s talk about how I started to pay attention to this sport.

up is an ordinary young man from a small city. When he was a child, he practiced table tennis at the table tennis club at home for several years. I have been interested in table tennis since I was a child and like to watch table tennis matches. It was also by chance that I discovered A TV channel - Pioneer Pingyu. At first I would only watch table tennis matches on Pioneer Table Tennis, but friends who are familiar with this channel know that this channel spends at least 70% of its time showing badminton.

Yes, it was this mango

emmmm and then I got into badminton. . .

I can never forget the first game I played in: the 2013 All England Open men's singles final. The opponent was my country's new generation leader Chen Long (I didn't know him at the time), and the opponent was someone I knew. Lee Chong Wei (I met Dato at the 2012 London Olympics. Before that, I only knew Lin Dan ...) Chen Long dared to fight hard and finally defeated Lee Chong Wei 2:0 and won the first championship in his career. When Chen Long, the champion of the British Championships, knelt down to celebrate, the commentator Li Xiangge of Pioneer Table Tennis gave me a general understanding of the combat power of the entire badminton world at that time. "In today's badminton world, someone who can defeat Lee Chong Wei in a major competition There are really too few people except Lin Dan, Chen Long is very good (roughly like this)" With this sentence, I probably had this guess: Lin Dan and Li Chongwei = Chen Long and others. Facts have proved that at that time. Judging from the world rankings and the results of the next few world championships, my guess is relatively accurate (the comparison of the achievements and influence of Chen Long and Li Zongwei is too complicated, so I won’t discuss it too much here)

The World Championships that summer In the competition, Lin Dan participated as a wild card and swept all the way. Except for , Zhang Weifeng, and Chen Long, who forced Lin Dan to 20 draws each in one game, they all won in straight games, and finally defeated Li Zongwei to win the championship. This duel established the status of the Egg God in my mind. You know, before the game, Li Zongwei had won several super championships and was invincible, while Lin Dan had not won a racket for nearly a year since London and only maintained With physical training, Lin Dan can still win the championship at the World Championships a year later at a not too young age. This is very scary.

This is what I saw in the first year of my relationship with badminton. (Looks like I’m going too far)

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It seems to be October 2013. . I can’t remember the specific month. The China Masters started (at that time, only two of the 12 Super Series events were held in China, the China Open and the Masters. The Masters was a relatively low-end stop in the Super Series). For the first time, I heard “ The name "Japanese young player Momota Kento" (I remember that the CCTV commentary at the time couldn't even pronounce the four characters Momota Kento smoothly, so I was deeply impressed by this name, but indeed the name seemed too convoluted. 2333) Wang Mingming used the same trick in the semi-finals and finals (allowing his opponent to get the match point in the deciding game and then reversed it to the extreme) to defeat Jorgensen and Son Wanhu to win the championship. (It is worth mentioning that this is the only super championship title in Wang Gongzi’s career) and I didn’t even meet Kento Momota before he was eliminated. . . .

2013 passed quickly, and I only heard the name Momota Kento once. .

In 2014, this guy Momota Kento surprised me. The Thomas and Uber Cup held in New Delhi, India (this is the first Thomas and Uber Cup that I have paid close attention to since watching badminton. I remember Uncle Hong Gang said something poisonous about whether the fourth candidate in the men's singles was Shang Wang Open Ming or Tian Houwei "Anyway, whoever wins will be the world champion." The result...) The second-seeded Chinese team lost to Japan 0:3 in the semifinals and was eliminated (at that time, the two sets of doubles of the Chinese team in the Thomas Cup were reorganized combinations, and there was no world ranking, so the top seed is Indonesia).The news that China was eliminated was beyond my expectation. When I was in the third grade of junior high school, I went home from school and finished my homework and watched the time-lapse video. Chen Long defeated Tianer, Rainbow lost to Endo Daiyu Hayakawa Kenichi, and Momota fought hard in the third round. He defeated Du Pengyu in the game (to be honest, I was not surprised in the first two games. After watching the game for a year, I thought that Tian'er at that time definitely had the ability to defeat Chen Long. As long as he was in good condition, his offense was very good, but the score was a bit emm. It’s ugly. Rainbow and Endo Hayakawa were tied 50-50. The third game was really beyond my expectation. I never expected that the then 19-year-old yellow-haired kid could defeat Adu, who fought with Lee Chong Wei every day until the decisive game) When

watched the video, I found that this guy had a very fine net and a very good offensive awareness. He basically won the three games with gun control. In the first half of the third game, I thought he was exhausted and was about to collapse, but He still persisted and killed Du Pengyu with a score difference. This is how Japan entered the finals. Lin Dan, the Chinese team's third single, went home before he even started. . .

played Malaysia in the final. It is worth mentioning that Malaysia eliminated the top seed Indonesia 3:0 in the semi-finals. Lee Chong Wei defeated Xiao Su, and the reorganized combination Yun Tianhao Chen Wenhong killed Ahsan Hendra (this game was very Unexpectedly, Hengshan was the world champion in 2013 and ranked in the top two in the world at the time), and Zhang Weifeng killed Lambaka (also known as Lumbacha, Dionysus in some translations). In the first game of the final, Lee Chong Wei 2:0 Tianer. In the second game, Yun Tianhao and Chen Wenhong won first and then lost to Hayakawa Kenichi and Endo Hiroyuki (it was Chen Wenhong who had every chance of winning this game. Tailanglang is gone), Momota defeated Zhang Weifeng in the third game, and the reorganized combination Chen Weiqiang Wu Weishen defeated Chicken Blood in the fourth game. In the last game, Takuma Ueda won Mr. Liu (Before the Thomas Cup, Malaysia had three men's doubles teams, Diamond, Yun Tianhao Chen Weiqiang, Wu Weishen, Lin Qinhua, and Diamond Gu Jianjie. The form was not good. Malaysia temporarily dismantled the team and reorganized it, which also created Later, the Rio runner-up Shuangwei combination)

the Japanese team won the championship. The Japanese men's team players at that time: Kenichi Tianer (the electrician who is the best at badminton), Kento Momota, and Toma Ueda (this guy is still a top student at Waseda) Kenichi Hayakawa, Hiroyuki Endo, and Keigo Sonoda, Takeshi Kamura, became the first Japanese world champions. (Momota Kento participated in the Thomas Cup for the first time and won all six games from the group stage to the final. At this time, I already thought he had great potential. He was under 20 years old at the time, and Axelsen, who was the same age as him, was His performance in this Thomas Cup was mediocre, and he lost to Wei Nan when playing Hong Kong)

19-year-old Momota, who won the Thomas Cup in 2014

is extremely talented, has exquisite skills in front of the net, good offensive awareness, and good offensive placement, but poor offensive firepower Some have poor physical fitness. He can beat the top lob players, but he can't guard against aggressive offensive players (it was difficult for him to get 10 points in a single game from Lee Chong Wei and Jorgensen when he played in the Open) and has high comprehensive abilities. To his own player (Chen Long).

This is what I saw about Momota Kento in 2014

In 2015, Momota Kento's strength rose to a higher level. He lost to Lin Dan in the All-England Championship, the big show of the year, but the scores in the two games were not ugly, which impressed me the most. The profound detail is that he and Lin Dan relied on each other to receive and serve each other, paused, and let the net swing to the opponent to score directly. From this ball, I saw Momota Kento’s imitation ability and on-the-spot adaptability, and he was not timid when facing an opponent like Lin Dan. , calmly read the game and hit the ball reasonably. At that time, few athletes in the world could do it, let alone this young man in his early 20s.

A few months later,

Singapore Super Series, he defeated Hong Kong veteran Hu Yun (Hu Yun was very strong that year) in three hard-fought finals, and won the first Super Series championship in his career.

In 2015, he won the Singapore Super Series.

Then he defeated Kashyap in the semi-finals of the Indonesian Open and Jorgensen in the final, winning himself the first top super championship in Japanese history. This game was the first time Momota Kento defeated Jorgensen, and He found a way to effectively restrain a tough athlete like Jorgensen. Since then, Momota Kento has basically never lost against Jorgensen.

Indonesia won the championship

and won the bronze medal in the World Championships (lost to Chen Long in the semi-finals, and the gap with Chen Long was still quite big at that time)

won the finals championship at the end of 0, (Complain: Axelsen eliminated Chen Long in the finals , that was the first time he defeated Chen Long, but after passing Chen Long's hurdle, he still couldn't pass Momota's hurdle. 233333)

ranked second in the world. This year, Momota Kento was 21 years old.

2015 Finals Champion

In 2015, Momota Kento's record can be said to be very dazzling, and he can even be said to be second only to Chen Long (Lin Dan was in average form this year, and Lee Chong Wei was only in mid-year). Return from suspension) I have seen the growth of this young athlete: he has a strong learning ability and the ability to adjust and execute tactics. This ability is probably: I was still at a disadvantage last time when I beat you, but after thinking, summarizing and adjusting after the game, I can defeat you next time and gradually gain an advantage over you in the future. Jorgensen is a typical example. And his style of play has also changed compared to the previous year: at this time, he began to transform into a lob, and it started to show results. At this time, the peach fields tend to mature.

In 2016, he was banned for illegal gambling and missed the Olympics.

He came back in 2018 and won two world championships this year. Now he has few opponents in the world. Most fans and fans know his experience after 2018, so I won’t go into details. Having said that, it can be said that even after experiencing some ups and downs, Momota Kento is still moving up all the way.

Next I want to say some of my own opinions, which are also my original intention of writing an article.

Momota Kento is a very special person. He has some qualities that other athletes lack. He is able to think calmly and respond calmly at a young age. He seems to have a unique understanding of badminton, which can significantly improve a certain aspect of his abilities in a short period of time against a certain opponent or a certain game. This is very scary. Unlike Momota, Asa relies more on his own skills to organize offense and score points. Asa has the offensive ability and coverage area that Momota does not have, but Asa cannot control his temper when things go wrong, and he is irritable and impulsive, especially When facing Momota, Momota's restrictions and transfers to Asa have made Asa still unable to find a way to crack it. This is why two people who are so close in strength and age have such disparity in their battle records (seems like a sick sentence). ).

In addition, many fans now like to compare Momota with Lin Li in his peak period. I think this is meaningless behavior. First of all, badminton technology has been moving forward with the development of the times. From the four-sided ball at the beginning of the century, From Taufik to controlling the net and attacking, to Lin Li's variable-speed assault, and then to Chenlong Momota blocking the far net and pulling the lob to attack, the style of play has been changing. Of course, in my mind, the peak period of athletes of Lin Li's level must be above that of today's Momota, but Momota also emerged from the era of the three great masters of Lin Li and Chen, and reached this point step by step. I think Put Momota in any era, with his talent and learning ability, he can become an excellent athlete. I have watched football for so many years, and I have summarized a rule: because A defeated B, and B defeated C, so A and B C, this is wrong. For example, some people say that Wei Nan defeated Datuk, and Lin Dan easily defeated Wei Nan, so Lin Dan, Wei Nan, and Li Chongwei. Some people also said that Jorgensen Axelsen defeated Lin Dan, but the Danish duo did not You can't beat Lee Chong Wei, so Lee Chong Wei > Denmark > Lin Dan. This is a very one-sided view. 1,000 people will have 1,000 playing styles, which will produce 499,500 kinds of restraint relationships. This is also the charm of badminton. Of course, based on the overall results and long-term rankings, winning percentage and other aspects, if I want to rank: Pinnacle Lin Li Moota Gaide Chen Jin Li Xuanyi Sony Bao Chunlai Son Wanhu Zhou Tiancheng Xia Xuanze Ye Chengwan. It is difficult to compare Taufik and Chen Long. We still have to look at the results of Chen Long and Momota in the next few years to make a decision.

Author: Parker is particularly troublesome