One of the biggest test in their career, i don't think they ever been beaten 5 times in a row by the same pair. hope they can stay discipline and play with enough variation like in the second game yesterday. Good luck.
This is it, minions! Jia you! https://m.badmintonindonesia.org/app/information/newsDetail.aspx?/8843 Marcus : Our game today was pretty much the same with the one yesterday. But unfortunately, we were impatient and too rushed. So what we displayed today was really what we have learned much from the mistakes and what was lacking from yesterday's match. We were able to play with more patience today. Especially the shuttles here are a bit slow, so if we were caught up with a fast pace rally it could be a boomerang to ourselves. Kevin : Whoever our opponents will be tomorrow won't be easy. This is semifinal and all the players playing in this tournaments are all top-level. But the important thing is whoever the opponents tomorrow we have to be more prepared, more focused and that we can maintain our energy too. (BWF World Tour Finals 2019) Kevin/Marcus ke Semifinal, Indonesia Kirim Tiga Wakil (Guangzhou, 13/12/2019) Pasangan Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo/Marcus Fernaldi Gideon akhirnya berhasil memastikan langkah ke babak semifinal BWF World Tour Finals 2019 Guangzhou lewat kemenangan dua game langsung atas ganda putra Jepang, Takeshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda. Bertanding di Tianhe Gymnasium, Tiongkok, Jumat (13/12), Kevin/Marcus menang dengan skor 21-16 dan 21-17. The Minions melaju ke semifinal BWF World Tour Finals 2019 Guangzhou dengan status runner up grup A lewat raihan dua kemenangan atas Kamura/Sonoda dan Lu Jun Hui/Liu Yu Chen (Tiongkok) dan satu kekalahan dari Hiroyuki Endo/Yuta Watanabe (Jepang). Pada laga terakhir di fase penyisihan grup kali ini, Kevin/Marcus tak mau menyia-nyiakan kesempatan terakhir untuk mendapatkan tiket ke empat besar. “Permainan kami hari ini kurang lebih hampir sama dengan kemarin. Tapi sayangnya kemarin itu kami mainnya terlalu buru-buru dan nggak sabar. Jadi permainan hari ini lebih banyak belajar dari kesalahan dan kekurangan di pertandingan kemarin,” ujar Marcus Fernaldi Gideon kepada badmintonindonesia.org selepas pertandingan. “Hari ini kami bisa lebih sabar mainnya. Apalagi di sini shuttlecock-nya agak lambat, jadi kalau kepancing main cepat bisa jadi bumerang buat kami sendiri,” sambungnya menambahkan. Berdasarkan hasil undian, di babak semifinal BWF World Tour Finals 2019 Guangzhou, Kevin/Marcus akan berhadapan dengan Hiroyuki Endo/Yuta Watanabe. “Siapapun lawannya pasti nggak akan mudah. Ini sudah semifinal dan pemain top level semua yang turun di kejuaraan ini. Tapi siapapun lawan besok, yang penting dari diri kami sendiri harus lebih siap, lebih fokus dan bisa lebih maintain tenaga juga,” tutur Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo. Sementara itu, selain Kevin/Marcus, Indonesia juga berhasil meloloskan ganda putra Hendra Setiawan/Mohammad Ahsan dan tunggal putra Anthony Sinisuka Ginting. Di babak semifinal, Sabtu (14/12), Hendra/Ahsan akan kembali berjumpa pasangan Taiwan, Lee Yang/Wang Chi Lin. Sedangkan Anthony juga kembali bersua Chen Long (Tiongkok) di laga semifinal, besok. (*)
I'd look it the other side and its EndoW that needs to win this title. They havent won any title this year? The thought of beating Minions again will or might eventually tires them, if not in SF maybe in F. Unfortunately, this is how it goes sometimes. When the title is dry, it dries.
Hopefully it's the case, not the other way around. the thought of always being beaten by the same opponent might be a mental block for minions, I hope not
Yeah losing 5x in a row ..not good. Should have ended it in HK in all honesty when leading 19-15(right? didnt watch that match). However, Endo also has mental block of not winning title so you can say which one is worst ( For someone so defensively talented, he only has 1SS?) and even so, i remember that tournament the top players didnt participate.
Sukamuljo seems to have lost all confidence in his partner Gideon seems to have lost confidence in himself
Well, I am sorry to say. The only who can save Marcus is Marcus himself. Can't rely on anyone else for this.
Kevin could help by giving positive encouragement rather than the negativity he is currently exhibiting towards his partner. It's only making Marcus lose more confidence.