Praveen/Melati Still Have The Opportunity To Appear In The 2024 Olympics, As Long As...

JAKARTA - Praveen Jordan/Melati Daeva Oktavianti is considered to still have a chance to appear in the 2024 Olympics. Both of them feel that they still have the quality to compete with other top mixed doubles.

Former Indonesian mixed doubles coach Richard Mainaky stated that Praveen/Melati should be more focused and concentrated if they want to appear at the Paris Olympics.

Praveen/Melati are currently the number one mixed doubles in Indonesia. They are ranked 5th in the world as of October 18, 2022.

However, both of them have no longer lived in the PBSI National Training Center since January 2022. The pair who won the All England 2020 title were dropped from the national training due to a number of considerations including consistency issues and character.

"On the national level, they are like that, yes, if they are outside (the national training) they can't. Because if they are really ready, they still have quality," said Richard as quoted by Antara, Saturday, October 22, 2022.

After being relegated from the national training, Praveen/Melati are currently returning to PB Djarum, the club they were fostered before joining the national training.

Since leaving Cipayung, Praveen/Melati have appeared in several international tournaments several times. Call it All England 2022, the 2022 Asian Championships, and finally at the Indonesia Open 2022.

However, Praveen/Melati have not performed together again since the Indonesia Open 2022 because Praveen suffered a waist injury. The injury forced him to take the operating table and pull over for several months.

Meanwhile, Melati still regularly appears and is juxtaposed with different partners, such as Hafiz Faizal and Reza Pahlevi Isfahani.

The hunt for points and qualifying round for the 2024 Paris Olympics for badminton will begin on May 1, 2023.

A total of 48 quotas in the double sector will be contested based on the BWF ranking list Race to Paris which will end on April 30, 2024, each consisting of the top 16 pairs in the men's doubles, 16 women's doubles, and 16 mixed doubles.

For doubles, each country or NOC may send two representatives if there are two pairs that are included in the top eight ranking list 'Race to Paris'.