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Women’s Singles
By Ronni Burkal Elkjær
Five different kinds of styles characterize women’s singles right now according to Denmark’s assistant national coach Jesper Hovgaard. But all five styles are a possible path to glory.
- Movement and tempo play a big part at the top level in women’s singles. Especially a change of pace in the rallies is something, that hurts for the players.
- We see a lot of women’s singles, who really want to have the initiative in the rallies. Many of their choices are based on, they want the initiative at any time.
- But the Olympics is usually a good reference of showing, what you need to be good at, and it showed another direction for this category. The very best women’s singles are more willing and better at giving up the initiative instead of always wanting it. We saw for example Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying, who struggled against it, because a lot of shots was returned, and she couldn’t find holes in the opponent’s defense.
- The only exceptions in that trend are maybe Spain’s Carolina Marin and India’s Pusarla V. Sindhu, who doesn’t necessarily want to give up the initiative.
- If you look at the absolute best, there are many different playing types. So, it’s actually hard to tell, what exactly you should do to get to the top. But it’s very important for me to show, that there isn’t just one way.
- There is someone like Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying and Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon, who can hit any type of shots. Technical extremely strong. They have a special feeling with the shuttle and moves very well around the court.
- Then there is someone like Spain’s Carolina Marin, who are the most obvious example on being quick. She moves quickly and plays fast. She is like a tempo machine.
- India’s Pusarla V. Sindhu is a player, who likes to push a lot, when she is attacking.
- A very interesting addition to women’s singles has been An Se-young from Korea. She is the first, I have seen, to use her defense active in maintaining calm in her own play, but also to drain her opponent. It’s still with at a high technical level. But she has taken something from the men’s singles, where she’s down on the floor in the defense and still masters to get her opponent’s out running.
- In the last category I would put China’s Chen Yufei, and Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi and Nozomi Okuhara. They are making very few mistakes, because they are so solid in their shuttle handling skills. They play the basic game very well and still at a high technical level.
- Overall, it’s five different styles of play, but all have won major tournaments. And that’s what I think is the most fascinating side of women’s singles. ■
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