Gregoria Dispelled, Indonesia Returns Without A Title At Swiss Open 2023

Gregoria Mariska (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Indonesia went home without a medal in the BWFWorld Tour Super 300 Swiss Open 2023 after the only remaining representative, namely the women's singles Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, was eliminated in the semifinals. In the match in St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland, Sunday morning WIB, the 23-year-old badminton player gave up from the sixth seed from Thailand Pornpawee Chochuwong with a score of 21-18, 13-21, 17-21.Gregoria actually started well in this last round of four. She immediately stepped on the gas with an earlier lead in the first game. Unfortunately, in the second game the game the game was slack. So that the opponent was free to carry out attacks. Similar conditions also occurred in the decisive game until Gregoria finally lost in Chochuwong's hands. Such defeats the hope of the Red and white representatives bringing the title from Switzerland. In the semifinal phase, Indonesia had two representatives. Apart from Gregoria, there were also women's doubles Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti. Unfortunately, the pair with the status of second seed also failed to the final after Apriyani suffered a right shoulder injury when dealing with Japan's origin Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota which ended with a score of 17-21, 10r-16. In general, the results in the Swiss Open 2023 were also no better than the achievement of last season when the Red and White squad managed to bring home two titles each through Jonatan Christie's men's singles men's doubles Jonatan Christie and Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto's men's doubles. Unfortunately, Jona became the champion after defeating the Indian men's singles Prannoy HS in the final with a score of 21-12, 21-18. While Fajar/Rian eliminated Malaysian men's doubles Goh Sze Fei/Nur Izzuddin with a score of 21-18, 21-19. As for the Swiss Open 2023, in the women's single sector final will bring Chochuwong together with Danish representative Mia Blichfeldt who previously defeated Beiwen Zhang from the United States (US) with a score of 19-21

In the men's singles sector, Chou Tien-chen from Taiwan is faced with a Japanese badminton player Koki Watanabe. Then in the men's doubles sector Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang faced India's representative Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty. In the women's doubles sector, Japan was confirmed to have won the title after two representatives faced each other, namely Fukushima/Hirota against Rena Miyaura/Ayako Sakuramoto. Meanwhile, the mixed doubles will match the final match between the Malaysian pair Goh Soon Huat/Shevon Jemie Lai who are the sixth seeded against Chinese representatives Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin.