Losing To China, Apriyani/Fadia Boost Confidence For Indonesia Open 2022

Women's doubles pair Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (Cosmas/VOI)

JAKARTA - The women's doubles pair Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti admitted that their confidence needed to be improved after losing in the final of the Indonesia Masters 2022 in Istora, Sunday, June 12.

Apriyani/Fadia failed to emerge as champions in the BWF Super 500 event after losing in straight sets 18-21 and 12-21 to the number one Chinese representative in the world, Cheng Qingchen/Jia Yifan.

However, the pair who won the Hanoi SEA Games gold medal did not want to be dissolved by this result. They want to immediately get up to fix their shortcomings to face the Indonesia Open 2022 next week.

"We have to increase our confidence and that will be our provision at the Indonesia Open (next week)," said Apriyani in a press statement in front of the media crew after the match.

The Indonesia Masters final was the first final for Apri/Fadia in an individual tournament after making their debut as a new pair at the last SEA Games.

Entering the final in the Super 500 event as a new couple is definitely an extraordinary achievement for Apriyani/Fadia. The final match also gave them many new lessons to face the world's top number players.

"So, today's results we learned a lot that here we have to know that against top players, we still have a lot of homework to do. We still have to work hard," said Apri.

In line with Apri, Fadia also admitted that the match against top players gave him many important things. For that he and his colleagues had the opportunity to improve themselves before facing the Indonesia Open which was held from Tuesday, June 14.

"Grateful to be able to reach the final. Today I learned a lot. It turns out that the world standard level is like that. So after this practice, you have to be extra and easy going forward, you can give the best," said Fadia.

From this year's Indonesia Masters, Indonesia brought home one title. The title was won by the men's doubles pair Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto who defeated the Chinese representatives Liang Wei Keng/Wang Chang.