Jakarta. Rising Indonesian badminton star Jonatan Christie has continued his good run of form following his baptism of fire at last month’s Sudirman Cup, by earning a first-round berth at the BCA Indonesia Open Superseries tournament on Tuesday.

The 17-year-old shuttler beat national teammate and fellow qualifier Firman Abdul Kholik 21-16, 19-21, 24-22, and Thai veteran Boonsak Ponsana, 22-20, 21-17, to make it into the main draw of the men’s singles at the $800,000 tournament.

“I’m so excited to reach my goal to clinch a place in the first round. Playing against [Ponsana] was a big thing. I felt nervous with the spectators cheering for me. I couldn’t perform well in the beginning, but then I kept attacking and finally made it,” Jonatan said.

He regained his confidence after coming back from 17-20 behind to level at 20-20 against Ponsana before closing out the first game.

“That boosted my [confidence] and I believed I could win the second game. I made it,” he said.

Jonatan will meet Chou Tien Chen of Taiwan in the first round of the tournament.

Teammate Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, 18, will also join Jonatan in the main draw after prevailing against compatriots Andre Kurniawan Tedjono and Sony Dwi Kuncoro in the qualifiers.

“I lost to Sony in Vietnam but I learned a lot from that. This time I tried to make him run all over the court. I was nervous with the noise from the crowd, but I managed to overcome it. The noise somehow gave me a confidence boost. I reached my goal,” Anthony said.

“With only the youngsters left at the national training camp, all the attention is on us. That gives us an advantage. We’re one or two steps away from being competitive with the top-level shuttlers.”

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Jakarta. As one of the qualifying tournaments for next year’s Rio Olympics, this week’s BCA Indonesia Open is expected to be more competitive than its previous editions.

Ten top players from across the globe have arrived in Jakarta to compete in five categories — men and women’s singles, men and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles — and step up the heat for the $800,000 tournament.

Denmark’s top men’s singles shuttler Jan O. Jorgensen, the tournament’s defending champion, conceded that his defeat by fellow countryman Viktor Axelsen at last week’s Australian Open was a hiccup in his performance.

“Yes, I had a tough week last week, but I hope I can maintain a good run. And hopefully it’s not the hair that brought me victory [last year],” joked the current world’s number three, who sported longer hair during last year’s tournament, but arrived this year with a new, shorter do.

“I’ve had a lot of good matches this year. The Indonesia Open as a Superseries Premier is a top competition [and] it would be likely very tough from the beginning. I think the toughest rivals will still be [China's] Chen Long and Lin Dan.”

Jorgensen clinched the 2014 title after ousting Japan’s Kenichi Tago in the final, 21-18, 21-18.

The Indonesian Open will be his and fellow Dane Mathias Boe’s first tournament since returning to their national team.

Boe, who will compete in the men’s doubles competition, is the world badminton’s number two player in his category. He is also among five top Danish players — including Kamilla Rytter Juhl, Christinna Pedersen, Joachim Fischer Nielsen and partner Carsten Mogensen — who were eliminated from the national team following a spat with Denmark’s badminton federation over a sponsorship deal. As a result, the five did not participate in last month’s Sudirman Cup.

“The men’s doubles competition is extremely tough; [there are] so many good players. It is difficult to look too [far] into the tournament. We got the finalists from last week [Australian Open] in the first round already. The new Chinese pair are really tough opponents. We need to be able to put in our best effort to beat them. Obviously they came from a long trip to Australia. They should be advanced while we got here on Saturday. They got their confidence already. We just have to stay focused 100 percent and have a really good shot,” Boe said.

“About the problem [with the Danish national team] — everything is OK now. We found a way to work things out and work together again. We’ll continue and come here also for the World Championships. Obviously that’s fine. The problem’s settled. We’ve had a counseling. This is the best for all parties. We’ve been already practicing again with the national team for the last two weeks,” he added.

The tournament will also feature a band of young, up-and-coming shuttlers who have high hopes for the competition.

“I hope our young shuttlers can at least make it to the main stage. These tournaments are important to prepare them for our long-term goal, the 2020 Olympics,” said Rexy Mainaky, the Indonesian Badminton Association’s (PBSI) head of athletes development.

Among the hopefuls is men’s singles qualifier Firman Abdul Kholik.

“It’s a tough competition, even from the qualifying,” the 17-year-old said. “I’ll meet my own teammate Jonatan Christie in the qualifying stage before I will likely face [Thailand's Boonsak Ponsana]. Let’s just see. I’ll just play my best.”

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Jakarta. Indonesia wasn’t in competition when the Sudirman Cup, the world badminton team championships, kicked off in Dongguan, China, on Sunday, instead using the opportunity to study its group opponents.

“It’s good to know we have the chance to watch our group opponents play against each other in the opener,” said Rexy Mainaky, the head of athlete development at the Indonesian Badminton Association, or PBSI. “We can learn how they have improved, which is good for our strategy to face each of them.”

Indonesia has been drawn with Denmark and England in the group stage of the event.

Indonesia will face England on Monday in the first test of a new-look squad that mixes former world champions with young shuttlers competing at their first senior-level tournament.

All eyes are expected to be on the women’s doubles and men’s singles players.

Once considered the weak link in the Indonesian side, the women’s doubles players have slowly emerged as a force in their own right, highlighted last year by Greysia Polii and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari winning the gold medal at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

They are joined by Anggia Shitta Awanda and Della Destiara Haris, who showed plenty of promise to beat top-ranked Bao Yixin and Tang Jinhua of China en route to the quarterfinals of last year’s World Championships.

The men’s singles players, meanwhile, have attracted attention for a whole different reason. Despite having three players in the top 40, the PBSI opted to go with three teen shuttlers — the highest-ranked of them being Jonatan Christie, the world number 63.

“I feel a bit nervous. But I’ll keep in mind what veteran Christian Hadinata said: that your teammates may lose their matches, but not you,” Jonatan, 17, said last week.

Teammate Firman Abdul Kholik, also 17 and ranked 72nd, relished the chance to play in his first ever senior team event.

“Now I’m one of the Sudirman Cup team members. Hard to believe and it feels like a dream, but I’ll take it as a challenge in my career as a shuttler. I’ll carry the responsibility and show people that I’m a future star by playing at my best,” he said last week.

The third men’s singles player, Ihsan Maulana Mustofa, 19 and ranked 86th, already has some experience, having played in last year’s Thomas Cup.

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Jakarta. Indonesian badminton officials are targeting a strong finish for the country’s shuttlers at next week’s Sudirman Cup, world badminton’s mixed-team championships that Indonesia has only ever won once before — back at the inaugural event in 1989.

“Clinching a spot in the semifinals is a must, and going to the final will be great,” Gita Wirjawan, the president of the Indonesian Badminton Association, or PBSI, said on Tuesday at a ceremony to mark the association’s 64th anniversary. “Of course it will be a tough task for the shuttlers as the other competitors are getting stronger. But we expect another surprise.”

The biennial Sudirman Cup, taking place from May 11 to 17 in Dongguan, China, this year, was named after Dick Sudirman, a founder of the PBSI, and was first contested in Jakarta in 1989.

The home side won that event, but has been shut out since, despite reaching the final six more times.

China, the defending champion, has won it nine times, and South Korea three times.

Indonesia won’t meet either of these Asian powerhouses in the group stage of the competition, having been drawn rather favorably with Denmark — which will be without five of its top doubles shuttlers because of a sponsorship spat — and England in the preliminary round, where it will lean on its seasoned doubles teams to rack up the points while giving its largely untested singles shuttlers a chance to prove themselves.

“The team is a real mix of juniors who usually play in international challenger series and seniors who are experienced in top-tier tournaments,” Gita said. “This is our effort to boost regeneration among players by combining both. We hope the seniors will display their capability and serve as good role models for the juniors. We’ve been doing the best we can. It’s just about time.”

The anniversary celebration at the PBSI’s national training camp in East Jakarta also doubled as a send-off for the 11-man, nine-woman team heading to Dongguan, with men’s doubles star Hendra Setiawan, a veteran of the 2011 and 2013 Sudirman Cups, named team captain.

Rexy Mainaky, the PBSI’s head of athlete development, conceded that winning the tournament was a long shot, given the gulf in talent and experience between the doubles players and their singles peers.

“Our players’ individual rankings vary greatly, while other teams have more high-ranked players. But we’re talking about a team event,” he said. “We have strong men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles pairs. That should be more than enough to motivate the youngsters in the men and women’s singles.”

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Jakarta. Indonesian badminton officials are targeting a strong finish for the country’s shuttlers at next week’s Sudirman Cup, world badminton’s mixed-team championships that Indonesia has only ever won once before — back at the inaugural event in 1989.

“Clinching a spot in the semifinals is a must, and going to the final will be great,” Gita Wirjawan, the president of the Indonesian Badminton Association, or PBSI, said on Tuesday at a ceremony to mark the association’s 64th anniversary. “Of course it will be a tough task for the shuttlers as the other competitors are getting stronger. But we expect another surprise.”

The biennial Sudirman Cup, taking place from May 11 to 17 in Dongguan, China, this year, was named after Dick Sudirman, a founder of the PBSI, and was first contested in Jakarta in 1989.

The home side won that event, but has been shut out since, despite reaching the final six more times.

China, the defending champion, has won it nine times, and South Korea three times.

Indonesia won’t meet either of these Asian powerhouses in the group stage of the competition, having been drawn rather favorably with Denmark — which will be without five of its top doubles shuttlers because of a sponsorship spat — and England in the preliminary round, where it will lean on its seasoned doubles teams to rack up the points while giving its largely untested singles shuttlers a chance to prove themselves.

“The team is a real mix of juniors who usually play in international challenger series and seniors who are experienced in top-tier tournaments,” Gita said. “This is our effort to boost regeneration among players by combining both. We hope the seniors will display their capability and serve as good role models for the juniors. We’ve been doing the best we can. It’s just about time.”

The anniversary celebration at the PBSI’s national training camp in East Jakarta also doubled as a send-off for the 11-man, nine-woman team heading to Dongguan, with men’s doubles star Hendra Setiawan, a veteran of the 2011 and 2013 Sudirman Cups, named team captain.

Rexy Mainaky, the PBSI’s head of athlete development, conceded that winning the tournament was a long shot, given the gulf in talent and experience between the doubles players and their singles peers.

“Our players’ individual rankings vary greatly, while other teams have more high-ranked players. But we’re talking about a team event,” he said. “We have strong men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles pairs. That should be more than enough to motivate the youngsters in the men and women’s singles.”

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Jakarta. He may be ranked 63rd in the world, but in Jonatan Christie’s mind, he can already go the distance against the cream of the badminton crop.

“I dreamt of winning a match in straight games against Jan O. [Jorgensen, the world number three] and winning in three games against Chen Long [number one],” says the 17-year-old Indonesian. “They felt so real. I think it’s because I’m so obsessed with taking part in the event.”

The event in question is the Sudirman Cup, the world team championship of badminton, which runs from May 10 to 17 in Dongguan, China, and where Jonatan will make his debut at the head of a young and untested Indonesian men’s singles side.

“I feel a bit nervous. But I’ll keep in mind what veteran Christian Hadinata said: that your teammates may lose their matches, but not you,” Jonatan says.

His dream of taking on the Dane Jorgensen could come to pass, with Indonesia drawn in the same group as Denmark and England, but the result may not be as momentous as he hopes.

The Indonesian team has in recent years relied heavily on its more successful doubles teams to win the crucial points needed to advance in the Sudirman Cup, and with officials refusing to take higher-ranked singles players into the men’s sides, the singles team this year is widely seen as simply going along for the experience.

That calculus doesn’t seem to faze Jonatan or teammate Firman Abdul Kholik, both of whom will be competing in their first ever senior team event.

“I’m still a junior and I’ve never had a chance to play in a team event,” says Firman, 17, who is ranked 72nd.

“But now I’m one of the Sudirman Cup team members. Hard to believe and it feels like a dream, but I’ll take it as a challenge in my career as a shuttler. I’ll carry the responsibility and show people that I’m a future star by playing at my best.”

The third member of the men’s singles squad is 86th-ranked Ihsan Maulana Mustofa. Indonesia has four higher-ranked players — all in the top 40 — but the country’s badminton association, the PBSI, has chosen not to go with them because two — Tommy Sugiarto (ranked 11th) and Simon Santoso (39) — have opted out of the national training camp, and the other two, Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (21) and Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (38), are contracted with professional clubs.

Firman says the departure of the seniors from the national scene has opened an opportunity for young shuttlers to step up for the country.

“It’s good to know that we’re now leading the men’s singles side at the national training camp, but we lack good sparring partners because the seniors have left,” he says.

“Personally, I’ll use [the Sudirman Cup] to gain more international experience.”

Indonesia’s women’s singles players for the Sudirman Cup are Lindaweni Fanetri, Bellaetrix Manuputty and Hanna Ramadini.

Former world champions Liliyana Natsir and Tontowi Ahmad will lead the mixed doubles charge, which also features Debby Susanto and Praveen Jordan.

The women’s doubles team will be led by 2014 Asian Games champions Greysia Polii and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari, while Anggia Shitta Awanda will pair up with Della Destiara Haris after her regular partner, Rosyita Eka Putri Sari, was left out of the side to recover from a knee injury.

Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan, another pair of former world champions, will spearhead the men’s doubles campaign, backed up by Gideon Markus Fernaldi/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Angga Pratama/Ricky Karanda Suwardi.

The squad was put through its paces at an exhibition tournament in Jakarta on Saturday, where Jonatan eked out a narrow win over Firman, Gideon and Kevin easily bested Angga and Ricky, and Anggia and Della fought from a game down to beat Greysia and Nitya.

Rexy Mainaky, the PBSI’s head of athlete development, said the exhibition highlighted some problems that needed work ahead of the Sudirman Cup next week, but added that overall he was pleased with the performance.

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Jakarta. Indonesian badminton officials have shown little solidarity and plenty of gloating over a sponsorship spat in the Danish squad that will deprive next month’s Sudirman Cup team tournament of five of the world’s best doubles players.

“They’re having a problem over sponsorship right now, which is a very fortunate situation for us because Denmark is our toughest rival in the group stage,” Rexy Mainaky, the head of athlete development at the Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI), said on Thursday.

“But they still have a tough men’s singles side,” he added.

Denmark’s top women’s doubles pairing of Kamilla Rytter Juhl and Christinna Pedersen, as well as Pedersen’s mixed doubles partner, Joachim Fischer-Nielsen, and the men’s doubles pair of Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen were booted from the country’s national training center last Friday.

The five players all have personal sponsorships with Danish cookie maker Kjeldsen, but the country’s badminton federation has signed a deal with rival confectioner Danisa to sponsor its team for the Sudirman Cup in Dongguan, China.

Citing the terms of their personal sponsorships, the players said they could not play in the tournament with jerseys bearing the Danisa logo (Danisa and Kjeldsen are currently embroiled in a lawsuit), resulting in them not just being passed over for the Sudirman Cup squad, but also “kicked [...] out of the national team” and their funding withdrawn by Badminton Denmark, Rytter Juhl and Pedersen wrote on their Facebook fan page.

“Whatever happens I promise you that all five of us will continue playing, and we will hit the shuttles even harder,” they wrote. “We are all sad right now, but we can look ourselves in the eyes, and we will come back even stronger.”

In a statement, Badminton Denmark justified its decision to “discontinue cooperation” with the players on the grounds that it had signed a collective agreement for sponsorship with the national team players, and that their personal sponsorships were the source of the conflict.

“It is not acceptable that players have broken the collective agreement by entering into personal contracts that are contrary to this,” Rene Toft, the Badminton Denmark president, said in the statement.

Rytter Juhl and Pedersen are the world’s fifth-ranked women’s doubles pair; Pedersen and Fischer-Nielsen are number two in the mixed doubles, the same rank as Boe and Mogensen in the men’s doubles.

The Danish side was expected to pose the biggest challenge to the Indonesian team at the Sudirman Cup, which runs from May 7 to 10, in a group that also includes England.

The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout rounds, and with a higher group finish earning a more favorable draw in the next stage, Indonesia is relishing its chances of coming out on top.

Former world champions Liliyana Natsir and Tontowi Ahmad will lead the mixed doubles charge, which also features Debby Susanto and Praveen Jordan.

The women’s doubles team will be led by 2014 Asian Games champions Greysia Polii and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari, while Anggia Shitta Awanda will pair up with Della Destiara Haris after her regular partner, Rosyita Eka Putri Sari, was left out of the side to recover from a knee injury.

Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan, another pair of former world champions, will spearhead the men’s doubles campaign, backed up by Gideon Markus Fernaldi/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Angga Pratama/Ricky Karanda Suwardi.

The men’s singles players are Jonatan Christie, Firman Abdul Kholik and Ihsan Maulana Mustofa, and in the women’s singles, Lindaweni Fanetri, Bellaetrix Manuputty and Hanna Ramadini.

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Jakarta. Indonesia’s Maria Febe Kusumastuti scraped her way into the third round of the Asian badminton championships in Wuhan, China, to keep the flag flying as the country’s sole representative in the women’s singles draw.

Febe, ranked 34th in the world, needed three games to beat Thailand’s Nichaon Jindapon, 18-21, 21-18, 21-12, on Wednesday to set up a third-round clash with world number eight Wang Yihan of China at the Dong Feng Citroen Badminton Asia Championship.

“I think I played the first game well but it still wasn’t enough to win,” Febe told badmintonindonesia.org, the official site of the Indonesian Badminton Association, or PBSI.

“We’ve played against each other a couple of times and they were all tough matches,” she added. “They always went to three games. That’s probably because we’re on the same playing field, with long rallies throughout. So it’s all about who can endure the longest on the court. The stronger one wins.”

Febe said she hoped to pick up her game for the tie with Wang.

“Today’s victory is important to boost my confidence. I’m the only Indonesian in the women’s singles here. So I’ll treat it like I’m playing at the Olympics or another major tournament,” she said. “I’m fighting alone and I’ll do my best. I know the draw hasn’t done me a lot of favors. It’s a tough one. So I have to be ready.”

Earlier in the day, top Indonesian pair Hendra Setiawan and Mohammad Ahsan booked their place in the third round of the men’s doubles with a 21-12, 21-12 win over Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed and Nasheeu Sharafuddeen of the Maldives.

They took just 22 minutes to close out the match and will next face Turkmenistan’s Azat Annanazarov and Penaberdy Sopyyev in the third round.

“We haven’t had any difficulties yet because we’ve played relatively easy opponents,” Hendra said.  “So we’re making the most of the games to adjust to the court. I hope we can beat our opponents tomorrow.”

Hendra and Ahsan, the 2013 world champions, are competing in only their first Asian championship together.

“We want to take the title home, that’s for sure,” Hendra said. “I think we have a good chance. But we’ll see. We may face tougher opponents in the quarterfinals, but of course we have to get through the third round first.”

Also through to the third round, albeit on a walkover, are Ade Yusuf and Wahyu Nayaka. They will play the world’s top-ranked men’s doubles pair, Lee Yong-dae and Yoo Yeon-seong of South Korea.

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Jakarta. The generation of badminton players touted as Indonesia’s champions-in-waiting may not yet have the nerve to compete at the highest level of the sport, although some are showing signs of promise, officials say.

Praveen Jordan and Debby Susanto, a mixed-doubles pairing whom the Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI) had hoped would lead the charge to revitalize the thinning ranks of the country’s top players, fared particularly poorly in the recent Malaysian and Singapore legs of the top-flight Superseries events, failing to move past the first round of each tournament.

“It’s such a pity to see how they performed,” Rexy Mainaky, the PBSI’s head of athlete development, said over the weekend.

“Their losses were down to how they easily got frustrated during the matches. And every good player should experience such a situation. It’s part of the process.”

He added, though, that he was not worried, and would work closely with them ahead of the Sudirman Cup, a team tournament to be held in Guangdong, China, from May 10 to 17.

“We need to sit and talk more with the players and their coaches to get into the details of setting their goals and analyzing their games,” said Rexy, the men’s doubles gold medalist at the 1996 Olympics.

He was, however, more pleased with the recent performances of women’s doubles pair Anggia Shitta Awanda and Ni Ketut Mahadewi Istirani, who entered the Malaysia tournament at the end of March as qualifiers and knocked out second seeds Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark in the first round. They went on lose in the second round.

“They’ve been showing progress. They used to lose easily before, but now they’re stronger,” Rexy said. “We need to focus on improving their fighting spirit before the Sudirman Cup.”

Rexy was particularly impressed with Angga Pratama and Ricky Karanda Suwardi, who clinched the men’s doubles title at the Singapore event earlier this month after sweeping aside several seeded pairs, including fifth seeds Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan of China in the final.

They failed to carry that form into the weekend’s China Masters event, crashing out in the opening round to Taiwan’s Lu Ching Yao and Tien Tzu Chieh.

In the mixed doubles draw, Edi Subaktiar and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja made it into the final, where they lost to home favorites Liu Cheng and Bao Yixin.

Indonesia’s current batch of singles players, though, are “uncompetitive” compared to the doubles players, said Yuni Kartika, a former top women’s singles shuttler.

“They’re probably out of the top rankings, especially the women,” she said. “But I believe the opportunity is there for them to give their best for the team. Having been drawn with Denmark and England in the group phase [of the Sudirman Cup], I think they can still be competitive.”

Taufik Hidayat, Indonesia’s last Olympics singles gold medalist, at the 2004 Athens Games, warned against underestimating the younger players, especially in a team event like the Sudirman Cup.

“I was just 17 when I won the deciding match for the country at the 1998 Asian Games,” he said.

“Never underestimate young people. Let’s give them the chance to gain more experience by playing at international events. They have nothing to lose by playing against more experienced players. Who knows, they might end up playing better than their seniors.”

The PBSI has left veterans Tommy Sugiarto and Simon Santoso out of the squad in favor of the less-experienced Jonatan Christie, Firman Abdul Kholik and Ihsan Maulana Mustofa.

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Jakarta. Indonesia’s sporting community mourned the passing over the weekend of top badminton umpire Unang Sukardja, best remembered for officiating what is widely considered one of the greatest matches of all time.

Unang, 55, passed away on Friday from a hemorrhagic stroke and was buried on Saturday at a public cemetery in Ciledug, on the western outskirts of Jakarta. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

“It is a very, very sad news and I am shocked,” Gilles Calvert, a French umpire who, like Unang, is endorsed by the Badminton World Federation (BWF), said in an e-mail.

“I met Unang several times in the past years, either as umpire or referee, and he was a good friend of mine. My deepest thoughts go to his family and Indonesian badminton friends.”

In a statement on its website, the BWF also paid tribute to Unang. “He was one of the very best umpires in the world and finished at the pinnacle of his career,” Torsten Berg, the chairman of the federation’s technical official commission, said.

“This is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that he was in the chair of the men’s singles final in the London Olympic Games between Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei, often called the best match ever played. Unang managed that job impeccably as he did so many other challenging duties.”

Lin won that match in a three-game thriller to defend the title he had won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

“Unang’s smiling appearance and friendly manners won him many friends among BWF’s technical officials,” Berg wrote.

“He was an excellent example and a good teacher for younger colleagues. Recently he had started refereeing and we had hoped to have him around for many years in that capacity. Sadly, that is not to be.”

In addition to the 2012 men’s final, Unang also officiated at the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Games.

Taufik Hidayat, Indonesia’s 2004 Olympic champion, said the Indonesian badminton community had “lost one of its greatest people.”

“Thank you and rest in peace,” Taufik added.

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