BADMINTON | Already a legend, An Se continues to chase perfection

‘How does 1 bushed you’ evoked disorder and yet a giggle from An Se Young arsenic the 23-year-old yet realised the question aft winning her 10th lucifer against Zhi Yi Wang successful the last of the India Open, her sixth rubric successful arsenic galore tournaments.

“I cognize everyone volition effort their champion to triumph against maine (but) I volition effort my champion not to lose,” she smiled.

It is simply a question fewer person managed to find an reply to connected the World Tour. Last twelvemonth An Se, Paris Olympics champion, reached 12 finals successful 15 events, winning 11, a 94.8 lucifer winning percent. It is inactive not cleanable capable for the Korean.

She admits perpetually winning is simply a unit but besides gave a peep into the mindset that makes her truthful intimidating. “I consciousness unit but I don’t deliberation astir my feelings. I conscionable effort to bash my champion connected the time and absorption connected the game.

“I americium disappointed erstwhile I marque mistakes and suffer a constituent and erstwhile I do, I deliberation I person to bash more, effort and find retired my mistakes and enactment connected them,” she said.

This from a subordinate who hasn’t dropped a crippled successful 9 matches and conceded a expansive full of 115 points successful 5 matches here.

“She is stable, beardown and plays faster successful each aspect. She is 1 of the strongest opponents but Chen Yu Fei and Tai Tzu Ying are besides pugnacious opponents. I volition effort to amended my abilities and skills, alteration immoderate strategies and bushed her successful the future,” Wang insisted.

While astir different players person struggled with the drift and upwind wrong the cavernous arena, specially connected the acold broadside of the courts, An Se seems to beryllium unaffected with each the tiny talk.

“It is not easy,” she protested with a laughter erstwhile asked astir the conditions. “Every subordinate has a antithetic benignant of playing. I lone privation to bash my best, I spot however the tribunal is going connected and lucifer my velocity and everything other with the tribunal to antagonistic the drift,” she shrugged.

Her manager declared they were moving connected getting adjacent better. “The semifinal (against Ratchanok Intanon) I deliberation was cleanable but since she doesn’t deliberation so, we are moving connected her movements, footwork and attacking strokes to get better,” manager Lee Hyun-Il explained done a translator. An Se’s ain thought of perfection is simply a 21-0 win. It whitethorn not hap soon but the thought is scary enough.