2024 BAC Results: Anthony Ginting Qualifies For Round 16

Men's singles badminton player Anthony Sinisuka Ginting/DOK. PBSI

JAKARTA Men's singles badminton player second seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting passed the first round of the 2024 Badminton Asia Championship (BAC).

Ginting maintains hope of defending the title by defeating representatives of India, Kidambi Srikanth, 21-14 and 21-13 at Ningbo Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Zhejiang, China, Wednesday, April 10.

"Today all the strategic designs can go well. The pattern of the game can also be directly in," said the bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after the match.

In last year's edition, Ginting was the only Indonesian representative to successfully win this tournament. At that time, he defeated Singapore's singles, Loh Kean Yew, in the final match.

Ginting said that there would still be evaluations in his game that needed to be addressed so that it could run smoothly in the face of the next matches.

"It has to be added to the focus and pattern of the game. Only each opponent is certainly different. So in general, in the field, I don't have to die easily. I also have to reduce my own mistakes," he said.

Ginting is the second representative of Indonesia to secure tickets for the round of 16. Previously, the first ticket was secured by mixed doubles Rinov Rivaldy/Pitha Haningtyas Mentari.

Several other representatives have had to lift their suitcases. Two of them are the men's doubles Leo Rolly Carnando/Daniel Marthin and Bagas Maulana/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri.

Then the women's doubles Lanny Tria Mayasari/Ribka Sugiarto and Meilysa Trias Puspitasari/Rachel Alllessya Rose, and the women's singles Kusuma Wardani.