Jojo Knocked Out, Red And White Men's Singles Representative In Indonesia Is Finished Masters

Jonathan Christie (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Jonathan Christie, who became the last representative for Red and White in the men's singles number at the Indonesia Masters 2021, was finally eliminated in the round of 16. The man who is familiarly called Jojo lost to Kidambi Srikanth in the rubber game in Nusa Dua, Bali, Thursday.

Jonathan had struggled for 62 minutes and started the first game well, but due to lack of focus in the second and third games he had to admit his opponent's advantage with the final score 21-13, 18-21, 15-21.

"I was able to put pressure on him in the first game. In the second game I lost focus several times, those little things could change the game. In the third set his confidence got better," Jonatan said, as quoted by Antara.

Seeing Srikanth bounce back in the decisive game, it made Jonathan even more depressed and could not push his game to catch up.

According to Jonatan, Srikanth is an experienced badminton player and has been ranked number one in the world, so he has a level of self-confidence that cannot be rivaled by Jonathan.

"I think he knows how to read the enemy's game. He can also see the enemy is tense or what, so if you have played at a level where the enemy is like Srikanth, Kento, Axelsen, whose experience is quite good, they must really focus," said Jonatan.

Decreased self-confidence causes Jonathan's game to get out of control and often makes mistakes. This is the advantage that Srikanth has been waiting for to finish his match.

"I've tried my best, but Srikanth can provoke me to issue a lot of attacks so that he attacks back from his defense. Several times I have had quite a bit of trouble from there," he said.