Badminton World Championships 2023 Results: Apriyani/Fadia Step Into Quarter Finals

The pair Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti. (Photo: Twitter/@INABadminton)

JAKARTA - Indonesian women's doubles Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti managed to advance to the quarter-finals of the 2023 Badminton World Championships. Apriyani/Fadia became the first representatives of Indonesia to qualify after several of their representatives failed.

Apriyani/Fadia face South Korean representatives Baek Ha Na/Lee So Hee at the Royal Arena, Denmark on Thursday, August 24 evening WIB. The 11th-seeded women's doubles struggle inked in two games ending 21-12 and 21-14.

Apriyani/Fadia's victory was achieved after passing the match for 41 minutes. The results that brought them through to the quarter-finals became a slick achievement, because Baek/Lee were the second-seeded women's doubles.

Apriyani/Fadia showed dominance over the opponent who was superior since the match started. It is proven that they can lead 11-5 in the first interval.

After the break, Apriyani/Fadia's neat cooperation continued. They forced Baek/Lee to make a lot of mistakes so that they were able to collect the 21-13 gubernatorial points in the first game.

In the second game, Apriyani/Fadia tried to repeat success in the previous game. But the game didn't go easy because Baek/Lee tried to start balancing Apriyani/Siti Fadia.

Left 2-5 behind, Baek/Lee equalized to 6-6. But entering the second game interval Apriyani/Siti Fadia managed to lead 11-9.

Apriyani/Siti Fadia did not relax their attacks because after the Baek/Lee interval, they appeared with better attack power. With efforts to appear calm and focused, Apri Fadia continued to get points and Baek/Lee's mistakes made Apriyani/Siti Fadia win 21-14 in the second game.

Indonesia's principle of adding representatives is still wide open. Because there are still a number of representatives who have not appeared.