Focus On The Next Tournament After Failing At The Olympics, Jojo: There Is A Lot To Strive For, Now Looking To The Future

Jonathan Christie (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - After being stopped in the last 16 of the Tokyo Olympics in early August, the men's singles badminton player, Jonatan Christie, has begun to forget his disappointment by focusing on preparing for another major tournament that is coming soon.

Although it ended not as expected, the world number seven men's singles took the positive side by making the Olympics a valuable experience for the continuation of his career in the future.

"I started to forget the results at the Olympics, even though I wasn't 100 percent yet. But I made it an experience, not pressure," said Jonathan, quoted by Antara, Monday.

According to him, the Olympics is indeed one of the biggest dreams of all athletes, but important matches are not only in the Olympics.

Therefore, he will return to fight to the maximum for other major badminton tournaments such as the Sudirman Cup and Thomas Cup, as well as the World Championships at the end of the year.

"So there are many things that must be fought for. What has passed, let it pass, it's just now how we look to the future," said the athlete who is familiarly called Jojo.

Jonathan, who has been training for approximately three weeks, said that his condition was quite good. Maintaining conditions is the most priority thing for this 2018 Asian Games gold medal winner.

"Conditions so far have been okay. Now we are still recovering our physical, muscle, mental and all conditions before going into training ahead of the tournament. We just have to maintain our condition and hopefully keep it away from injury," he concluded.

The Indonesian team is preparing for a busy tournament schedule starting in September. Starting with Sudirman Cup (26 September-3 October), Thomas-Uber Cup (9-17 October), Denmark Open (19-24 October), French Open (26-31 October), and SaarLorLux Open (2-7 November) .

Continuing in Bali as the host, Indonesia will hold three major tournaments, namely the Indonesia Masters (16-21 November), the Indonesia Open (23-28 November), and the BWF World Tour Finals (1-5 December). The last is the December 12-19 World Championships in the City of Huelva, Spain.