Greysia Polii Optimistic With Apri/Fadia Opportunities In The 2024 Olympic Hell Group

Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti during a training camp in France (doc. PBSI).

JAKARTA The women's doubles badminton legend, Greysia Polii, is quite optimistic about Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti's chances of qualifying for the hell group at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist also flew to France because he served as a mentor for Apri/Fadia.

"From the women's doubles competition, in my opinion, the rank one up to Apri/Fadia is the same. It's just a matter of how Apri/Fadia must be able to apply everything that has been learned, which has been obtained in field training," said Greysia.

The 2024 Paris Olympics will open on July 26, 2024. The group stage for badminton starts on July 27, 2024.

Apri/Fadia immediately faced a tough challenge because they were included in Group A. There was the first seed from China, Chen Qing Chen/Jia Yi Fan.

Two other women's doubles pairs that could be a stumbling block to Apri/Fadia are Japanese representatives Mayu Matsumoto/Wakana Nagahara and Pearly Tan/Thinaah Muralitharan from Malaysia.

Greysia said that on the paper these opponents obviously would not be easy. However, Apri/Fadia have not so bad statistics against those names.

"People say Apri/Fadia in groups are not good, but this is the Olympics and everything is the best. Opportunities are always open," he said.

Apri/Fadia are among the nine badminton athletes who left there. The other seven names are Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Jonatan Christie, Rinov Rivaldy, Pitha Haningtyas Mentari, Fajar Alfian, Muhammad Rian Ardianto, and Gregoria Mariska Tunjung.