Indonesian men's doubles reach 3rd round at World Championships
Indonesian men's doubles reach 3rd round at World Championships
By Primastuti Handayani
COPENHAGEN (JP): Indonesia's men's doubles pairings of Candra
Wijaya and Tony Gunawan and Ricky Subagja and Rexy Mainaky
reached the third round of the World Championships at Brondby
Hall here on Thursday.
But a former Indonesian player, Ardy Bernardus Wiranata, who
is a head coach at the United States badminton center, stole the
show on Wednesday evening when he upset China's Dong Jiong, the
15th seed, 5-15, 15-11, 15-14 in a thrilling 61-minute match.
Ardy, who is playing for the U.S., will now meet former
teammate Hendrawan, who had to work hard to overcome qualifier
Tam Kai Chuen of Chinese Taipei 13-15, 15-8, 15-14.
Hendrawan said when he last met Tam at the Asian Games in
1998, the match had been a lot easier.
In another gripping match on Thursday morning, the old hands
of Sweden's Par-Gunnar Jonsson and Peter Axelsson beat the
Chinese pairing of Yu Yang and Yang Ming 16-17, 17-16, 15-12 in
90 minutes.
Axelsson and Jonsson now face the third-seeded Indonesian
pairing of Candra and Tony, who eased past the Danish duo of
Thomas Stavngaard and Lars Paaske 15-5, 15-8.
"Candra and Tony have better technical skills. If Peter and
Par-Gunnar can get more than 10 points in each game, that would
be good for them," said Atiek Djauhari, who coached Candra and
former partner Sigit Budiarto to victory in the championships two
years ago.
In the women's doubles, Indonesia's pairing of Cynthia
Tuwankotta and Etty Tantri had to work hard to overcome Kinga
Rudolf and Kamila Augustyn of Poland 15-4, 12-15, 15-5.
"They are still lacking self-confidence. Their opponents were
below their technical level but they made so many unforced
errors. But we cannot blame them for losing the second game
because they were distracted by wind inside the hall," said
deputy team manager Christian Hadinata, who is also Indonesia's
head coach.
"I don't understand how they played so badly. If they had been
up against players of their own level, they would have lost,"
Christian added.
Both Cynthia and Etty blamed their shaky form on the wind,
which they said had disrupted their rhythm.
The pair will now meet the top seeds Huang Nanyan and Yang
Wei, who defeated Japan's Hiromi Yamada and Naomi Murakami 15-9,
15-4 in the third round on Thursday evening.
Indonesia's Indarti Issoliana and Carmelita also reached the
third round on Thursday after beating Woon Sze Mei and Ang Li
Peng of Malaysia 15-5, 15-11.
Sole hope
Unfortunately, mixed doubles fourth seeds Tri Kusherjanto and
Minarti Timur of Indonesia tumbled to defeat against the new
partnership of Jens Eriksen and Mette Schjoldager of Denmark 12-
15, 7-15.
The country's sole remaining hope in the mixed doubles is the
pairing of Bambang Suprianto and Zelin Resiana, who won over
Chris Bruil and Erica van den Heuvel of the Netherlands 15-6, 15-
12. The duo now face All England champions Simon Archer and
Joanne Goode in the quarterfinals.
Veterans Ricky Subagja and Rexy Mainaky easily defeated
Quinten Van Dalm and Dennis Lens of the Netherlands 15-7, 15-4.
They will now meet Victo Wibowo and Lee Wei-Jen of Chinese Taipei
in the quarterfinals.
Second seeds Flandy Limpele and Eng Hian defeated Ian Sydie
and Brent Olynyk of Canada 15-9, 15-3. Flandy and Didi, Eng
Hian's nickname, will now face Cheng Rui and Wang Wei of China.
Elsewhere, home favorite Peter Gade Christensen defeated his
idol Hariyanto Arbi 15-6, 15-3, while in the women's singles,
South Korea's Lee Kyung-won upset the sixth-seeded Zhou Mi of
China 9-11, 11-8, 12-10. Also in the women's singles, Asian Games
gold medalist Kanako Yonekura of Japan, seeded 16th, made an
early exit, losing 6-11, 4-11 to the little-known Ella Karachkova
of Russia.
Selected results (x-denotes seeding)
Thursday's match:
Men's doubles: 2-Flandy Limpele/Eng Hian (Ina) bt Ian
Sydie/Brent Olynyk (Can) 15-9, 15-3; 3-Candra Wijaya/Tony
Gunawan (Ina) bt Thomas Stavngaard/Lars Paaske (Den) 15-5, 15-8;
4-Ricky Subagja/Rexy Mainaky (Ina) bt Quinten Van Dalm/Dennis
Lens (Ned) 15-7, 15-4; 5-Michael Sogaard/Jim Laugesen (Den) bt
Michal Logosz/Robert Mateusiak (Pol) 15-3, 15-5; Pramote
Teerawiwatana/Tesa Panvisvas (Tha) bt 7-Chew Choon Eng/Lee Wan
Wah (Mal) 9-15, 15-9, 15-9; 10-Lee Dong-soo/Yoo Yong-sung (Kor)
bt Chris Hunt/Julian Robertson (Gbr) 15-12, 15-11
Wednesday's match:
Men's singles: 1-Peter Gade Christensen (Den) bt Hariyanto
Arbi (Ina) 15-6, 15-3; 3-Budi Santoso (Ina) bt Chen Hong (Chn)
15-8, 9-15, 15-4; Ardy Wiranata (USA) bt 15-Dong Jiong (Chn) 5-15,
15-11, 15-14; 8-Hendrawan (Ina) bt Tam Kai Chuen (Tpe) 13-15,
15-8, 15-14; 14-Rashid Sidek (Mal) bt Jim Andersen (Nor) 15-6, 15-5;
4-Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen (Den) bt Peter Knowles (Gbr) 15-8, 15-8;
7-Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen (Den) bt Dicky Palyama (Ned) 15-12, 15-9;
10-Taufik Hidayat (Ina) bt Bertrand Gallet (Fra) 15-10, 15-5;
2-Sun Jun (Chn) bt Rasmus Wengberg (Swe) 15-8, 15-3
Women's singles: 4-Dai Yun (Chn) bt Wai Chee Koom (Hkg) 4-11,
11-5, 11-3; 11-Lidya Djaelawidjaja (Ina) bt Santi Wibowo (Swi)
11-5, 11-5; Lee Kyung-won (Kor) bt 6-Zhou Mi (Chn) 9-11, 11-8, 12-10;
5-Zhang Ning (Chn) bt Marina Andrievskaya (Swe) 11-4, 11-2;
15-Kim Ji-hyun (Kor) bt Katja Michalowsky (Ger) 11-5, 11-2;
3-Camilla Martin (Den) bt Vlada Tcherniavskaya (Blr) 11-0, 11-0;
10-Cindana Hartono (Ina) bt Judith Meulendijks (Ned) 7-11, 11-3,
11-6