SEA Games Vietnam: Men's Badminton Team Faces Cambodia, Women's Jump To Semifinals

Apriyani Rahayu will make her debut in pairs with Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (Via ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian men's badminton team will start their struggle at the Vietnam SEA Games by facing Cambodia in the team quarter-finals which will be held at the Bac Giang Gymnasium, Monday, May 16.

Indonesia team manager Eddy Prayitno said he was satisfied with the draw. He is optimistic that the men's team can win over Cambodia.

"The draw was quite satisfying, according to our predictions. In the men's team we will meet Cambodia in the quarter-finals, on paper we can win. In the semi-finals we will most likely meet Thailand," said Eddy as quoted from the official PBSI statement, Sunday, May 15.

"This should be a concern because Thailand's single data is quite strong. They fielded Kunlavut (Vitidsarn), Sitthikom (Thammasin) and Khosit (Phetpradab). If you look at the strength map, Thailand is one of the strongest and must be properly watched out, "continued Eddy. .

Meanwhile, in the women's team, the Indonesian team who was the second seed received a bye and automatically qualified for the semifinals.

"This means that the Indonesian women's team has also confirmed that it will get a medal even though we don't know the color yet, hopefully we can maximize it to become gold," he said.

The men's team badminton branch was followed by eight countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam.

While the women's team was only followed by six countries, namely Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

The 2021 SEA Games badminton team number will start from Monday to Wednesday, May 18, starting at 09.00 local time.

Here are the results for the 2021 SEA Games men's and women's team draws:

Boys Team

Indonesia (1) vs Cambodia

Thailand vs Philippines

Laos vs Singapore

Vietnam vs Malaysia (2)

Girls Team

Thailand (1) vs bye

Singapore vs Philippines

Vietnam vs Malaysia

bye vs Indonesia (2)