Commentary, content presentation and content recommendations
April 6, 2020
A great activity to do with your family and friends while staying home and staying safe is to ready books and share your thoughts with one another. I believe the books I’ve written will help you have hours of enjoyment. Please check them out. I welcome your input.
Link to children’s stories introduction video.
Tumblr link: Young Hearts – Wonderful Children’s Stories
March 12, 2017
The 2017 BWF All England Open Superseries badminton tournament was a big success this past week. There were some tremendous individual and team efforts in all five events – women’s singles, men’s singles, women’s doubles, mens doubles, and mixed doubles. It is worth watching matches on demand on YouTube especially as presented by badmintonworld.tv.
The champions were as follows:
Tai Tzu Ying, Chinese Taipei, Women’s Singles
Lee Chong Wei, Malaysia, Men’s Singles
Chang Ye Na and Lee So Hee, South Korea, Women’s Doubles
Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, Indonesia, Men’s Doubles
Lu Kai and Huang Yaqiong, China, Mixed Doubles
There were many wonderful performances that I hope to be able to report on, but feel free to check on those videos available on YouTube and elsewhere.
dja Badminton
Top badminton players and their chosen rackets
by Daniel A. Jones
It’s been a very interesting year in professional badminton with veterans and youngsters both having amazing campaigns. I have been impressed by so many performances of the top ranked singles players and doubles teams. Badminton World Federation has done an outstanding job of promoting the best sport on Earth – a healthy activity for your lifetime. I will write about the various tournaments and individual accomplishments throughout the 2017 season.
For now I want to introduce just a few of the top players for 2017, and I will list some of the current badminton rackets used by many of these players. These are rackets I have found that they have used in the 2016 season from either the racket maker or BWF as the main sources. Of course, many of the pros will change models for 2017.
Up and coming men’s and women’s players in doubles and singles –
CHEN Qingchen
Jhe-huei LEE
Yang LEE
Beiwen ZHANG
Top singles players –
TAI Tzu Ying
LEE Chong Wei
CHEN Long
Ratchanok INTANON
Jan O. Jorgensen
Top doubles players –
ZHANG Nan
CHEN Qingchen
Wee Kiong TAN
Misaki MATSUTOMO
Kevin Sanjaya SUKAMULJO
Keigo SONODA
KO Sung Hyun
Rackets used by selected professional badminton players –
Jan O. JORGENSEN
Yonex Voltric 80 E-tune
LEE Chong Wei
Yonex Duora 10
Markus Fernaldi GIDEON
Victor MX90
Kevin Sanjaya SUKAMULJO
Victor Jetspeed S 10
Wee Kiong TAN
Victor Jetspeed S 10
TAI Tzu Ying
Victor TI99, formerly Hypermano X 800
Carolina MARIN
Yonex Nanoray Z-Speed
NG Ka Long Angus
Victor TK8000
Akane YAMAGUCHI
Yonex Voltric 70 E-tune
Liliyana NATSIR
Victor JS 8 S Natsir L
Tontowi AHMAD
Victor JS S8 PS
SUNG Ji Hyun
Victor JS-8 ST and Victor Brave Sword 12 (per BWF profile)
SON Wan Ho
Victor Hypermano X 800
YOO Yeon Seong
Victor Brave Sword 12
Christinna PEDERSEN
Yonex Nanoray 800
Saina NEHWAL
Yonex Nanoray 900
Marc ZWIEBLER
Yonex Voltric 70 E-tune
Yonex Arcsaber 11
Mathias BOE
Yonex Duora 10
Carsten MOGENSEN
Yonex Duora 10
Mohammad AHSAN
Yonex Nanoray 900
Victor AXELSEN
Yonex Arcsaber 11
CHOU Tien Chen
Yonex Duora 10
Tommy SUGIARTO
Yonex Voltric 80 E-tune
KIDAMBI Srikanth
Yonex Voltric Z –Force II
Ratchanok INTANON
Yonex Voltric 70 E-tune
PUSARLA V. Sindhu
Yonex Voltric Z –Force II
Greysia POLII
Yonex Nanoray 900
Nitya Krishinda MAHESWARI
Yonex Nanoray GianZ
Chris ADCOCK
Yonex Voltric Z –Force II
Gabrielle ADCOCK
Yonex Voltric Z –Force II
Peter GADE
Yonex Voltric 80 E-tune
Tanongsak SAENSOMBOONSUK
Yonex Voltric 80 E-tune
Hans-Kristian VITTINGHUS
Carlton Kinesis X900 LTD
Rajiv OUSEPH
Yonex Nanoray 9000 – maybe 900 actually
WONG Wing Ki Vincent
Yonex Voltric 70 E-tune
Iskandar ZULKARNAIN
Victor Jetspeed 10
Porntip BURANAPRASERTSUK
Li-ning n90II
Kirsty GILMOUR
Yonex Voltric I-Force
Line KJAERSFELDT
FZ Forza Kevlar CNT-Power 10000s
Karin SCHNAASE
Yonex Nanoray 800
Misaki MATSUTOMO
Wilson CX 9000 J (FIERCE)
JUNG Kyung Eun
Victor Zet Speed S 10
Selena PIEK
Babolat Satellite Power
Gabriela STOEVA
Babolat Essential (blue)
Heather OLVER
Babolat Satellite Power Metrix Flex 6.5
Kim ASTRUP
Yonex Arcsaber 11
Marcus ELLIS
Yonex Voltric Z Force II
Chris LANGRIDGE
Carlton Vapour Trail Tour DSiL
Michael FUCHS
Yonex Voltric 80 E-tune
KO Sung Hyun
Victor Brave Sword 12
Natalia Koch ROHDE
Victor Wave Power 6600
Liu Ying GOH
Victor HX800
CHAU Hoi Wah
Victor Jetspeed 10
Bodin ISARA
Yonex Voltric Z Force
PEI Jing Lai
Victor Jetspeed 10
LEE Chun Hei Reginald
Victor TK 900
KIM Ha Na
Victor Hypermano X 800
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I am getting this site set up to keep a regular journal and commentary, share my art including publications, start some interesting projects to be announced in the near future, and much more. Updates should be fairly regular. Real contacts are appreciated.
Daniel