Confidence Is A Big Problem For Men's Doubles At China Masters 2023

JAKARTA The decline in confidence is the main factor causing the men's doubles not to be able to talk much at the 2023 China Masters which took place this week.

The men's doubles trip at the BWF Super 750 level event ended in the quarter-finals after Leo Rolly Carnando/Daniel Marthin and Pramudya Kusumawardana/Yeremia Rambitan were eliminated on Friday, November 24 evening WIB.

The head coach of the men's doubles at the National Training Center (Pelatnas) of the Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI) Aryono admitted that his team's confidence was far from consistent.

"In general, the performances of the men's doubles players in the 2023 China Masters tournament returned to the issue of player confidence that needed to be improved," he said.

The problem of player confidence is sometimes really good in certain tournaments, but then bapuk drastically in the next match.

Aryono said the impact of the players' lack of confidence made the game on the field really chaotic, such as often making your own mistakes.

"All of this is due to his inconsistent self-confidence which makes his game control and calm also unstable. These shortcomings need to be improved again," he said.

Indonesia sent five representatives from the men's doubles number to the China Masters 2023. Three representatives other than the two pairs above came home early.

The first representative to lift the suitcase in the first half was Bagas Maulana/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri.

Meanwhile, two other representatives who were eliminated in the second round, namely Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto and Hendra Setiawan/Mohammad Ahsan.