Indonesia Only Passes Jojo, This Is The Schedule For The 2024 Arctic Open Final Party

Indonesian men's singles Jonatan Christie while competing in the first round of the 2024 Arctic Open in Finland, Wednesday (9/10/2024). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Indonesia only passed Jonatan Christie or Jojo to the 2024 Arctic Open final which will be held today, Sunday, October 13.

Indonesia actually also passed Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in the semifinals of the badminton championship with a U$ 420,000 prize or equivalent to Rp 6.5 billion. However, the Wonogiri-born player ran aground in the last four after surrendering to the second seed Han Yue with a score of 9-21, 21-16, and 9-21.

Jojo advanced to the final after winning a walk over (WO) over Kunlavut Vitidsarn. The badminton player from Thailand was unable to compete due to his injury. In the quarter-finals of Friday 11 October, Vitidsarn managed to pass the Japanese badminton player Kodai Naraoka with a score of 21-16 and 21-17.

In the final, Jojo will meet Chou Tien Chen from Taiwan. The seventh seed qualified for the top party after passing Chef Watanabe from Japan with a score of 21-12. 14-21, and 21-10.

Jojo has met Chou Tien Chen 16 times. For the time being, Jojo is 9-7 ahead of the men's singles ranked 10th. The last meeting of the men's singles took place at the Singapore Open 2024. At that time, Chou won 21-17 and 21-6.

The final will start with a mixed doubles number that brings together two Chinese representatives. Fang Yan Zhe/Huang Dong Ping's first seed against second seed Jiang Zhen Bang/Wei Ya Xin.

The second party will hold a final between Thai women's singles Ratcanok Intanon against Han Yue. Meanwhile, the men's doubles final will be the third party and bring together fifth seed Goh Sze Fei/Nur Izzuddin with Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen from Denmark. Astrup/Rasmussen are the second seed in the championship.

The fourth party will hold the women's doubles number final between Liu Sheng Ahu/Tan Ning from China against Malaysia's Pearly Tan/Thinaah Muralitharan. Meanwhile, Jojo's match against Chen will be the fifth or final match of the final round.

The final party in Vantaan Energia Areena will start at 12.00 local time or 16.00 western Indonesia time.