Anthony Ginting Stopped In The Second Round Of Thailand Open II

Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Indonesian men's singles performance, Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, was stopped in the second round of the badminton tournament at Toyota Thailand Open after losing to Hong Kong representative Lee Cheuk Yiu, Thursday.

In a match that lasted 61 minutes at Impact Arena, Bangkok, Anthony was forced to surrender with a score of 19-21, 21-13, 12-21.

This defeat was recorded to be the first for Anthony from Lee Cheuk Yiu, from a total of three meetings between the two.

Reported by Antara, Anthony opened up the advantage at the start of the first game before being offset by 4-4 by Lee. But luckily, the fifth seed managed to return to lead 11-8 at the interval.

The sixth ranked player in the world is getting more aggressive in winning points. He was even able to keep the margin up to 17-10.

Not long after, Lee managed to stop Anthony's point-scoring pace by posting six consecutive points to change the position to 17-16.

After that, Lee continued to provide fast attacks that Anthony often failed to anticipate. The position was even 19-19 before a hard smash from Lee closed the first game with a score of 21-19.

The second game was quite easy for Anthony because of his own mistakes made by his rivals. Anthony was far ahead with a score of 11-5 at the interval.

Anthony managed to keep this positive trend until the second game was won with a score of 21-13.

The competition for points was increasingly felt when entering the third game. The two players were involved in a chase for points up to 6-6. After that, Lee with his hard punches finally shot to close the third game interval with a score of 11-7.

Anthony had erased the distance at 10-13. Unfortunately, he seemed to lose focus because on several occasions he made his own mistakes until the end of the third game.

In the end, Anthony also lost in the third game with a score that was far adrift, namely 12-21.

With Anthony's defeat, Indonesia has only one male representative, namely Shesar Hiren Rhustavito, after sixth seed Jonatan Christie was eliminated early in the first round by India's HS Prannoy.