Daniele CroceDaniele Croce
A 24-22 second game and a 12-21 decider: what the Asiad scoreboard says about Vietnam's two singles playersAt the seventh hurdle of the 400m hurdles at the East Java youth championship...
An Empty Data Sheet in the Middle of the Badminton Season: Why Refusing to Conclude Is a Professional DecisionAt three in the morning in Kuala Lumpur, I reopened the notes file of a...
Asian Games Badminton Men's Final: Two Historical Cravings Collide at IchinomiyaHook: No Longer Just About Rankings Ichinomiya, Japan – The Ichinomiya City...
Asian Games men's singles final: Loh Kean Yew, Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the fight for mid-courtIn the municipal gymnasium of Ichinomiya, the shuttle test before the Asian...
Fourteen Blank Pages in a Scouting File: The Data Limits of Badminton's Transfer WindowOn the screen is a spreadsheet of forty-one tabs. I opened it on a Tuesday...
The 13.4-metre gap: the geometry behind a one-sided Olympic finalOn 5 August 2026, at the Porte de la Chapelle arena in Paris, the Olympic men...
Li Shifeng Leads China's Men's Singles at Kumamoto Masters 2026: What the Data Says and What It SilencesKumamoto, November. The Chinese national badminton team's men's singles entry...
Loh Kean Yew and Kunlavut: The Asian Games Final and the Limits of DataI sat in front of the screen at 9 p.m. Jakarta time with a short news item in...
2026 Asian Games Men's Singles Badminton Final: Loh Kean Yew, Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the Limits of World No. 13The shuttle left the racket at 19-19 in the deciding game and drifted a hand'...
Lakshya Sen and the Five Doors of Aichi-Nagoya: What the Opponent Map Really Says About Asian Games 2026 GoldLate August, the provincial hall in Binh Duong was colder than the heat...
The Data Blank in Badminton's Season: What the Stat Sheet Cannot Measure After a Forty-Shot RallyOn a weekend morning I printed out an analysis sheet for a World Tour match a...
Lakshya Sen at Asian Games 2026: Five Knockout Matches and Four Uphill GatesSeven wins, four losses — and the most recent meeting belongs to the other ma...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the Art of Winning Slowly: Thailand's 64-Year Badminton Wall Comes DownOpening: The Man Taking Notes in Row Seven In row seven of the arena seating,...
BWF World Tour men's doubles points race: a crowded calendar and the pressure to defend position mid-seasonGame three, score 19-19. The line judge raised a hand, and the umpire confirm...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn Wins 2026 Asian Games: A Historic Treble and Thailand's 64-Year WaitThe moment was not loud. Kunlavut Vitidsarn stood at the centre of the court,...
Asian Games Men's Singles Badminton Final: Loh Kean Yew, Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the Rhythm-Control EquationAt the Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium, the most striking sound did not...
Kumamoto Masters 2026: Li Shifeng Leads China's Men's Singles and the Gap Shi Yuqi Left BehindIn the official entry list of the Kumamoto Masters 2026, China's men's single...
Thailand Wins the 2026 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship: Reading the Sediment Layers of Southeast Asia's Sports PowerOn the night of the 2026 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship final in...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn wins Asian Games 2026 men's singles badminton: a rare treble and a return to World No. 1Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thailand) defeated Loh Kean Yew (Singapore) 21-12, 21-16 ...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the Historic Treble: The Hand That Controls the Tempo Breaks Thailand's 64-Year Badminton BarrierIn the men's singles final at the 2026 Asian Games, the scoreboard stopped at...
The 12-21 Third Game: Vietnam's Real Badminton Gap Lies Behind That 24-22 SetOn September 26, I sat in front of a screen with a notebook divided into thre...
Kumamoto Masters 2026: Li Shifeng Leads China's Men's Singles as Shi Yuqi WithdrawsAt three in the afternoon inside the Kumamoto arena, a shuttlecock dropped to...
Shi Yuqi Withdraws, Li Shifeng Leads: The Chinese Men's Singles Equation at Kumamoto Masters 2026When I opened the entry list for Kumamoto Masters Japan 2026 on a morning in...
The Aichi-Nagoya Spreadsheet: Why Lakshya Sen's Gold Path Is Harder Than the HeadlineOn the evening of July 14, I reopened the head-to-head spreadsheet I keep for...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the Asian Games 2026 Gold: The Numbers Behind 21-12, 21-16The final score of the men's singles badminton final at the Asian Games 2026...
Decoding Kunlavut Vitidsarn's Rise to the Top at the 2026 Asian GamesWhen the final whistle of the men's singles final at the 2026 Asian Games...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn, the badminton treble and an unverified frame of referenceI read that result line three times before I allowed myself to write the firs...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the 64-Year Wall: How Thai Badminton Rewrote Asia's Men's Singles MapOn the scoreboard at an arena in Japan, the men's singles final of the 2026...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn: When Control Rises in the Age of SpeedIn the men's singles badminton final at the 2026 Asian Games in Japan, Kunlav...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn at the 2026 Asian Games: Thailand’s 64-year wait is just the tip of a numbers tableWhen Loh Kean Yew’s final drop shot caught the net and fell, 21-16 closed the...
Asian Games Badminton Final: Loh Kean Yew and Kunlavut — When History Calls One NameThe moment both players walked into Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium, no...
Asian Games Badminton Final: Loh Kean Yew, Kunlavut Vitidsarn and a Match Priced by Cash FlowThe Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium sits in the north of Aichi Prefecture...
Lakshya Sen and the Road to Gold at Asian Games 2026: When the Bracket Draws a Dream, but the Data Tells Another StoryThe armchair in my small Jakarta apartment taught me an old lesson again: an...
Indonesia reaches the 2026 Asian Games men's team badminton final: two doubles pairs hold the ceiling, a young singles player opens the doorThe second doubles rubber closed at 21-15, 21-13. Fajar Alfian and Muhammad...
Indonesia Reach the 2026 Asian Games Men's Team Final: Two Doubles Rubbers Hold the Line, the First Singles Leaves a QuestionJonatan Christie walked off the court at 17-21, 14-21. That was the opening...
The Geometry of Collapse: The 0.92 Metres That Decide Men's Singles BadmintonThe men's singles final at the Paris 2026 Olympic Games lasted 52 minutes....
Men's Singles Badminton After Paris 2026: Power Map, Gaps, and the Trap of ExpectationOpening In the second game of a recent Super 1000 men's singles final, I...
Badminton Transfer Window 2026: Reading It Through Money, Contracts and Competitive LoadThe first week of the badminton transfer window brought 63 lines of news into...
The Sound of Rackets in an Empty Hall: Alwi Farhan and a Tokyo Lesson Before the 2026 Asian GamesTokyo, early morning in the first days of September. The national training ha...
The Third-Game Break: The Hidden Bill of the World Tour CalendarThe Third-Game Break: The Hidden Bill of the World Tour Calendar On June 8,...
Vietnamese Badminton and the Unmeasured Data Gap: Nguyen Thuy Linh, Le Duc Phat, and the Numbers Nobody CountsIn March 2026, during an online meeting with the coaching staff of a Southeas...
Six Point Seven Rallies: The Silent Metric Reshaping Elite Badminton After Paris 2026On August 5, 2026, at the Porte de la Chapelle arena in Paris, Viktor Axelsen...
Thailand Deserves to Be Number One in Southeast Asia: Historic Victory Over China and Japan Opens a New Era for Women's VolleyballWhat do the numbers say? When Thailand defeated China and Japan with their...
