1963 All England Final-Erland Kops vs Channarong

[mynahbird20000]

More of Kops can be viewed in Sporten Hall of Fame upload.Includes clips of Kops doing some hard smashing late in his career.

[mynahbird20000]

Apt description.Kops was not known as Ironman for nothing, he could outlast most of his opponents.Once he played a very famous attacking player from I think Thailand, and the Thai player ended up sick.Kops after consulting Eddy Choong did develop a hard smash to add to his arsenal. Later on I will upload some articles on Kops to add to the articles written about him in badmintondenmark website.

[larrydonguy]

Kops and Channarong were both very good athletes and Kops, in particular, had plenty of power when he wanted to use it, but I think the difference between them and the type of game developed by Tan Xian Hu, Hou Chia Chiang, and Hartono was that the latter players developed a fitness, and a footwork geared for attacking singles. Rather than "meandering" (by comparison) to the back court to return a well hit clear defensively, they could "zoom" to the back and attack shots that others couldn't.

[mynahbird20000]

@mynahbird20000 Correction : Kops was champion in 1958,1960,1961,1962, 1963,1965,and 1967

 Runner up to Eddy in 1957 .

[mynahbird20000]

The stout figure facing the camera from 10 seconds onward is probably Indonesian player Tan Joe Hock.