JAKARTA — Jonatan Christie's men's singles had to settle for stopping in the first round of the 2022 Malaysia Masters. He failed after losing to Chinese Taipei representative Wang Tzu Wei.
Jonathan was defeated by a score of 21-16, 18-21, 25-27 in a match that lasted 1 hour 33 minutes at Axiata Arena, Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday, July 6.
Jonathan's failure made Indonesia only have two men's singles representatives in the round of 16 from the four representatives who fought in the first round. The two tickets were obtained by Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo and Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.
Apart from Jojo, Jonatan's nickname, Tommy Sugiarto also failed to get a ticket for the second round. The veteran's men's singles was stopped by the representative of India, Parupalli Kashyap.
Gregoria Mariska Tunjung's women's singles had a different fate. He only spent a short time of 27 minutes to get tickets for the last 16 of this Super 500 level event.
The world number 31 badminton player won easily with an identical score of 21-10 in two games over his opponent from world number 45 Qi Xuefei from France.
Gregoria is one of two Indonesian representatives who got tickets to the second round. One other women's singles is Fitriani.
Indonesia actually had three representatives in the first round. However, a second round ticket was lost after Putri Kusuma Wardani gave up in the hands of Zhang Yi Man's Chinese women's singles.
Apart from Gregoria, the second round ticket was also pocketed by the women's doubles, Febriana Dwi Puji Kusuma/Amalia Cahaya Pratiwi. This pair escaped after beating the representatives of India, Ashwini Ponnappa / Reddy N. Sikki.
Febri/Amalia got the third ticket for Indonesia in the women's doubles number. Previously, the tickets had been secured by the couple Febby Valencia Dwijayanti Gani/Ribka Sugiarto and Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti.
Mixed doubles Hafiz Faizal/Serena Kani also advanced to the second round. Deputy Hosts Soong Joo Ven/Goh Liu Ying were the victims of this pair.
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