Defeated By Thailand's Representative Intanon, Gregoria Failed To Make It To The Quarter-finals Of The Tokyo Olympics

Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Gregoria Mariska Tunjung lost to fifth seed from Thailand Ratchanok Intanon at the Tokyo Olympics. The Indonesian women's singles player failed to reach the quarter-finals.

In the last 16 match which took place on Thursday at Field 2 Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan, Gregoria had to admit Intanon's superiority in two games with a score of 12-21, 19-21, as reported by Antara from the BWF page.

Intanon's dominance has been seen since the first game. While Gregoria was far behind. He was late to steal the start, then continued to fall behind until the distance was 4-11.

The Garuda representative often made mistakes because he was too hasty so that his strokes and the direction of the ball became erratic. Intanon faced Gregoria calmly. The balls from Gregoria returned well and resulted in points.

Gregoria wasn't tough enough to catch up. In fact, he was even more overwhelmed with Intanon's game near the end of the game. Gregoria was subject to 12-21.

In the second game, Gregoria tried to get up and fight back. However, his efforts have not been able to undermine Intanon's dominance. The defense of the player from the land of the white elephant is also getting closer.

Not once was Gregoria able to outperform Intanon. Again he was 7-15 behind. Slowly he could shorten the distance to 15-17.

Unfortunately, Gregoria's game is unstable. He was able to add a few more points afterwards, but he again made a mistake in favor of his opponent.

Within 39 minutes, the match ended with Gregoria losing 19-21.

In terms of head to head, Intanon is indeed far superior because she is ranked sixth in the world, while Gregoria is currently ranked 23 in the world.

Losing Gregoria, Indonesia still has six representatives who will compete today, namely the world number one men's doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo against Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik at 08.35 WIB.

Then the second-ranked men's pair, Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan, challenged the host representative Takeshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda at 09.25 WIB.

Then in the afternoon session there will be a fight between the women's doubles Greysia Polii / Apriyani Rahayu with the Chinese pair Du Yue / Li Yin Hui at 15.00 WIB.

Furthermore, at 15.45 WIB, the men's singles Anthony Sinisuka Ginting is scheduled to meet Kanta Tsuneyama who is also the representative of the host.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Christie's men's singles will be the closing match today. He will face Chinese badminton player Shi Yu Qi. The last match started at 17.15 WIB.