JAKARTA Indonesia's mainstay badminton player began to fall in the second round of the Malaysia Masters 2023. One of them is the men's singles Jonatan Christie.
The owner of the 2018 Asian Games gold medal ran aground in the round of 16 after giving up two straight games 20-22 and 11-21 from the Japanese singles Kenta Nishimoto at the Axiata Arena, Thursday, May 25, 2023 at noon WIB.
This is Jonathan's second defeat to Kenta this year. Previously Jonathan had also lost in the same place when the two met in the last 16 of the Malaysia Open at the beginning of the year.
Apart from Jonathan, the former world number one Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo also ran aground in the second half. The pair nicknamed The Minions ran aground in the hands of the fourth seed from Japan Takuro Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi.
This is the second consecutive defeat of the Minions or the third in the history of duels with Takuro/Yugo in a total of 14 meetings.
"The opponent did play better than us. We want to try and try again, there is still a tournament ahead. We hope we can continue to be better," Kevin said after the match.
Another Indonesia's mainstay representative who died earlier this year at the Malaysia Masters this year is the mixed doubles pair Praveen Jordan/Melati Daeva Oktavianti.
The pair who won All England 2020 were confirmed to be eliminated after losing their three-game match against the Chinese pair, Jiang Zhen Bang/Wei Ya Xin.
Previously, in the mixed doubles number of two other Indonesian couples had also been eliminated. They are Dejan Ferdinansyah/Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja and eighth seed Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto/Lisa Ayu Kusumawati.
The only representative from this number that stepped into the quarter-finals was the pair Rinov Rivaldy/Pitha Haningtyas Mentari who defeated sixth seed Netherlands Robin Tableting/Selena Piek.
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