PON Papua Badminton Competition Starts Rolling Today

The atmosphere of the badminton match field at the Waringin Sports Building (GOR), Jayapura City (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The XX Papua National Sports Week (PON) today, Tuesday, will start competing in badminton. The match was held at GOR Waringin, Jayapura City.

Quoted from Antara from the official website of PON Papua, the first day of the badminton match will be opened with the preliminary round for the men's and women's team numbers.

The first match will be a men's team match between West Java and Papua starting at 09.00 WIT.

At the same time, the Central Java men's team will also face West Papua. Meanwhile, in the women's team elimination, DKI Jakarta is waiting for Bengkulu and Papua to meet with North Maluku.

PON Papua competes in two categories, namely teams and individuals.

In the men's team, there will be five matches, with details of three men's singles and two men's doubles. While in the women's team there are only three, namely two women's singles and one women's doubles.

There are 12 teams in the men's and women's team numbers which are divided into four pools. The match will use a half competition system from each pool, and only the group winners are entitled to advance to the semifinals.

The team matches will take place on October 5-9, while the individual events will take place on October 10-13.

The Papua PON badminton branch competed for seven gold medals from the men's and women's team numbers, men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles.

The following is the schedule for the Papua PON badminton match, Tuesday 5 October 2021:

09.00 WIT Men's Team Preliminary West Java v Papua

09.00 WIT women's team elimination for DKI Jakarta v Bengkulu

09.00 WIT Men's Team Preliminary Central Java v West Papua

09.00 WIT women's team elimination for Papua v North Maluku

14.00 WIT Men's Team Elimination East Java v Lampung

14.00 WIT Women's Team Elimination Bali v East Kalimantan

14.00 WIT Men's Team Elimination DKI Jakarta v North Sumatra

14.00 WIT women's team elimination for Papua v North Maluku