Indonesia International Challenge 2024: Women's Singles Remaining Mutiara

Women's singles Mutiara Ayu Puspitasari to the semifinals of the Indonesia International Challenge 2024 (doc. PBSI).

JAKARTA Mutiara Ayu Puspitasari's badminton player is the only Indonesian women's singles left at the Indonesia International Challenge 2024.

Mutiara reached the semifinals after stopping her country's compatriot, Bilqis Prasista, through a rubber game 16-21, 21-18 and 21-14 at East Java Expo, Surabaya, on Friday, October 2024.

Mutiara was forced to play 65 minutes by opponents who had beaten her in their only previous competitive clash in the 2019 Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships.

"In this match I had difficulty developing a game on the side of the field that was blowing a lot of wind," Mutiara said in a statement received.

Furthermore, in the last four, Mutiara will face Malaysia's representative and third seed, Karupathevan Letshaana, who won over Hong Kong women's singles, Saloni Samirfer Mehta.

Apart from Bilqis, Kyla Legiana Agatha also felt defeat. The player who was born on August 18, 2003, gave up in the hands of representatives of Thailand, Yataweemin Ketklieng, with a score of 12-21 and 17-21.

"In this match I can't apply the pattern of the game I want. Of course I learn a lot by having to be more patient in implementing the pattern I want," said Kyla.

Indonesia as a whole has 21 representatives who played in the quarter-finals today. Apart from the women's singles, clashes between Indonesian representatives also occurred in four other sectors.