I have had a lot of free time during these two days of rest, so I rushed to write this article before the start of the All England Championship. If you don’t know much about Momota, you can browse this article to see how he plays. When the All England Championship starts, you can

has been resting for the past two days and has a lot of free time, so I rushed to write this article before the start of the All England Championship. If you don’t know much about Momota, you can browse this article to see how he plays. When the All England Championship starts, you can also verify whether my statement is correct. However, I cannot guarantee that Momota can perform 100%. After all, this is his first game back.

My original intention is to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of Momota's style of play. However, if you don’t sort it out, you won’t know. It turns out that Momota has many advantages: fast speed, delicate touch at the net, precise placement, concise footwork, low turnover rate, strong defense, abundant physical fitness, good psychological quality, and high ball control level. Being able to combine so many advantages into one has determined that Momota will not be an ordinary first-class player.

Momota is the World Youth Championship champion. He is very talented, but his physical condition is not very good. Compared with other top men's singles, he has certain disadvantages in height, explosive power, physical fitness, etc. However, Momota did not lose sight of everyone because of this, and finally succeeded in standing out. The way to his success is as simple as it is difficult to say: find ways to maximize your abilities. This can be called a kind of wisdom.

is not tall enough and has insufficient explosive power, so it is destined to be difficult to win with a violent blow. If you force yourself to attack, it is difficult to have any future. Momota still played offensively in 2014, but had begun to transform in 2015. He must have realized this problem: given his physical condition, if he wants to become a great player, he can basically only rely on defensive play. To play defense, height is actually quite important, but fortunately, this is not a decisive condition.

Momota has a height disadvantage. The remedies he came up with are: first, increasing the running range, which makes up for the hard defensive ability. Increasing the running range requires ample physical support and good footwork to adjust. As a result, Momota also developed physical fitness and footwork. And the simple footwork also helps him save physical energy to a certain extent.

The second is to limit the opponent's offense. Hard defensive ability alone is not enough. The best way is to prevent the opponent from attacking. Only by combining the two can the best defensive effect be achieved. To limit the opponent's offense, you need excellent ball control and delicate net skills. In these two areas, Momota has relatively high talents. Of course, he must make good use of them and maximize them. Once the two are brought into play, the opponent's performance will be restricted and they will fall into Momota's rhythm. On the other hand, if Momota wants to defeat the enemy when playing, he must play at his own pace, or in other words, keep the opponent's offense within his control.

However, defense alone is not enough, offense and scoring are essential. Due to his shortcomings in height and explosive power, Momota basically avoids using powerful smashes. Instead, he mainly relies on placement to win, mainly killing two sidelines. Maybe it's because he has a better natural sense of the ball, and his control of the landing point is also quite precise.

Momota is also faster. In fact, no matter what type of player, speed is very important. If you can't keep up with your opponent's speed, it will be difficult for you to use your full strength. Among the current men's singles players, only Ginting has the same speed as Momota. This is why Ginting can have a greater impact on Momota. His speed and attack can disrupt Momota's rhythm. Once the rhythm is destroyed, Momota will The advantage will be greatly reduced.

In addition, Momota also paid great attention to reducing his error rate. It can be said that he did everything he should and could do under limited conditions. Because of this, what Momota is exerting now is all he has. It is a great thing for a player to make the most of his conditions and win and dominate by exerting all of himself, but on the other hand, it is also a bad thing, because at the same time, he The upper limit is also here.

Once this upper limit is exceeded, Momota will be in trouble. In the 2018 Guangzhou Finals, Shi Yuqi has been demonstrated to us once and only once. In that game, Momota's state was different from that in the 2019 Sudirman Cup final. There were no physical problems or any psychological pressure.The reason why he was defeated was because he was controlled by Shi Yuqi and got many offensive opportunities.

Momota's strong defensive ability depends largely on controlling his opponent. Once he cannot control his opponent, or is even controlled by his opponent in turn, his defensive range will be greatly "shrunk" and basically fall back to match his height. level, at this time, if the opponent is still offensive, he will basically be beaten without any solution. This is what we saw in the men's singles final of the 2018 Guangzhou Finals. Small players can be easily penetrated once they are controlled. Momota is like this, and so is Ginting. You might as well watch Shi Yuqi's game against Ginting.

In addition, we can also compare it with Shi Yuqi's and Axelsen games. Shi Yuqi swept Momota, but why couldn't he play such a good game against Axelsen? Because unlike Momota and Ginting, Axelsen is a tall man with long arms and a large defensive area. He has a natural advantage in hard defensive ability. Even if he cannot limit the opponent's offense, he may even be controlled. Now, it's not so easy for the opponent to kill him.

On the other hand, precisely because of his height, long arms, large defensive area, and strong hard defense ability, Axelsen does not need to spend as much effort as Momota. By controlling the ball, the opponent's offense is basically within his controllable range. Inside. The same is true for Chen Long . His height also determines his hard defensive ability. However, precisely because of their natural advantages in this area, neither Chen Long nor Axelsen worked hard to limit their opponents. This also resulted in their ball control and net skills not being as good as Momota.

Getting back to the subject, although Shi Yuqi controlled Momota once, that was the only time. Apart from him, no one among active players has exceeded Momota's ceiling. Therefore, Momota is still very stable now. He is indeed the number one in this era. It doesn't matter where his strength ranks in history. It's enough to be number one in his era, because number one is the champion.

Finally, if Momota can go all the way to the final and meet Axelsen in this All-England Championship, I am still optimistic that Momota will win. What do you think?

Source golfer: Ball Saint Lin Dan