BWF World Tour Finals 2022: Gregoria Makes A Shock By Donating Chen Yu Fei, Ginting Menges Jojo

Indonesian women's singles, Gregoria Mariska Tunjung. (Photo: Twitter @INABadminton)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian women's singles badminton player, Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, secured the first victory in the 2022 Group A World Tour Finals.

Amazingly, the 2017 junior world champion contributed first seed Chen Yu Fei with a score of 21-9, 14-21, and 21-16 at Nimibutr Arena, Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, December 7, 2022.

This is Gregoria's second victory over the Chinese representatives from their six meetings. The only previous win he got when they met in 2017 in the round of 32 of the Indonesia Open.

At that time, Gregoria also had to fight for three games to beat the women's singles, who are currently ranked fourth in the world.

Next Gregoria will face Korean representative An Se Young in the second match tomorrow. On paper, An Se Young still has a 3-0 winning-loss record.

All three Korean representatives' wins took place this year. Starting from All England, Malaysia Masters, and finally in the Australian Open final last month.

Gregoria is Indonesia's second representative to secure victory in the first match of the group phase at this year's World Tour Finals. Previously, Apriyani Rahayu's women's doubles had already been secured/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti.

The pair who won the 2021 SEA Games gold medal defeated Malaysian representatives Pearly Tan/Thinaah Muralitharan in a duel in two straight games.

The third Indonesian representative who also helped secure the first victory in the group stage was the men's singles Anthony Sinisuka Ginting. He defeated compatriot Jonatan Christie three games 6-21, 21-10, and 21-9.

In tomorrow's next match, Jonathan will face Singapore's Loh Kean Yew, while Anthony will meet the second seeded men's singles from Chinese Taipei, Chou Tien Chen.