Dejan/Gloria’s defeat leaves Indonesia with two representatives for the semi-finals of China 2024

Changzhou, VIVA – Indonesian badminton mixed doubles pair Deyan Ferdinandsia/Gloria Emmanuelle Widjaja were stopped in the semi-finals of the 2024 China Open after losing to hosts Feng Yan Zhe/Huang Dong Ping in the semi-finals.

Competing at the Changzhou Olympic Sports Gymnasium on Saturday, September 21, 2024, Dejan/Gloria faced the No. 2 seed in doubles with a final score of 16-21, 15-21, eliminating them from the BWF Super 1000 tournament.

Dejan/Gloria put up an impressive fight in the first game, but the tension that followed in the second meant the pair made many unforced errors.

Without Dejan/Gloria, the two red-and-white representatives will continue to fight for a place in the final of the 2024 China Open.

Indonesian men’s Muhammad Shahibul Fikri/Daniel Martin await Malaysia’s seventh seed Goh Sze Fei/Noor Izzuddin. Meanwhile, seventh seed Jonathan Christie will face China’s Weng Hong Yang in the men’s singles.

Jonathan became the only representative of Indonesia among men after losing to eighth seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Thailand’s Kunlawut Witidsarn in the quarter-finals on Friday (20/9).

Ginting lost 21-10, 11-21, 19-21 after three long matches.

“It’s unfortunate, but there’s no denying that we really struggled with the pitch after the third break. Kunlavut felt it in the first game and I felt it in the second,” Ginting said in his official statement.

“I tried, but there aren’t many options when it comes to playing. I tried to be more offensive, more reckless, but it didn’t work.”

Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto also suffered the same fate as they had to pack their bags in the quarter-finals, leaving Fikri/Daniel in the men’s doubles division.

Fajar/Rian were stopped after stopping Malaysia’s Ong Yu Sin/Teo Ei Yee 21-14, 17-21, 14-21. (Ant)