Marcus's smile with that hairstyle is a bit too bright for today's tie Good luck to minions and INA team tomorrow. https://m.badmintonindonesia.org/app/information/newsDetail.aspx?/8999 Kevin : The match wasn't easy. Especially playing Chirag who is used to playing MD and he is indeed a strong player. We were more prepared on court today. Marcus : Personally I didn't expect (how well India team played today), I was hoping we could have won it sooner. But Indian Team is strong, we as the players have to be ready in any situation. (About tomorrow's chance against Chia/Soh) : Kevin : On court, all teams have equal chances. The chance will be 50-50 for the match tomorrow, what's important for us is that we can give our best for the team. Marcus : They are strong players, they haven't lost yet in this tournament. We have to be cautious playing them as we have to play faster pace here. (BATC 2020) Tundukkan India 3-2, Indonesia ke Final (Manila, 15/2/2020) Tim Indonesia melaju ke final Badminton Asia Team Championships 2020 setelah menaklukkan India dengan skor 3-2. Angka kemenangan Indonesia ditentukan Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo/Marcus Fernaldi Gideon yang mengalahkan Lakshya Sen/Chirag Shetty 21-6, 21-13. Meskipun tak turun dengan kekuatan penuh, namun tim India memberikan perlawanan sengit bagi tim Indonesia yang diunggulkan di tempat pertama. Tiga poin kemenangan Indonesia dipersembahkan oleh Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Hendra Setiawan/Mohammad Ahsan dan Kevin/Marcus. Dua tunggal putra masih belum tampil maksimal, Jonatan Christie dan Shesar Hiren Rhustavito gagal mengamankan partai kedua dan keempat. "Pertandingan tadi tidak mudah, apalagi menghadapi Chirag yang sudah biasa main ganda putra dan memang dia pemain bagus. Tadi kami lebih siap di lapangan," kata Kevin usai laga. "Saya pribadi tidak menduga, saya berharap kami bisa menang lebih cepat. Tapi tim India memang kuat, kami sebagai pemain harus siap dalam situasi apa pun," tambah Marcus. Di babak final, Indonesia sudah ditunggu Malaysia. Tim Negeri Jiran melaju ke partai puncak setelah mengalahkann Jepang dengan skor sempurna 3-0. Dituturkan Marcus, tim Malaysia merupakan tim yang kuat, apalagi ada pasanngan andalan Malaysia, Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik yang kemungkinan akan turun sebagai ganda pertama. "Kalau di lapangan, semua tim punya peluang yang sama. Peluangnya 50-50 untuk final besok, yang penting besok harus bisa kasih yang terbaik buat tim," tutur Kevin soal laga melawan Malaysia. "Mereka memang pemain bagus, di sini mereka belum pernah kalah. Kami harus mewaspadai mereka, karena di sini mainnya harus lebih cepat temponya," jelas Marcus soal Chia/Soh. Berikut hasil pertandingan babak semifinal Badminton Asia Team Championships 2020 antara Indonesia melawann India (3-2): Anthony Sinisuka Ginting vs Sai Praneeth 21-6 - retired Jonatan Christie vs Lakshya Sen 18-21, 20-22 Hendra Setiawan/Mohammad Ahsan vs M.R Arjun/Dhruv Kapila 21-10, 14-21, 23-21 Shesar Hiren Rhustavito vs Subhankar Dey 17-21, 15-21 Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo/Marcus Fernaldi Gideon vs Lakshya Sen/Chirag Shetty 21-6, 21-13
Congrats to INA team to win the BATC for the third time.. Minions did their share of contributing a score to the team at all time, yay.. close call in SF when IND forced MD1 to the last. How to calculate their points here, anyone know? https://m.badmintonindonesia.org/app/information/newsDetail.aspx?/9003 Kevin : They were more prepared than us in the first game. Seemed like they really had prepared their strategy right. They were so difficult to put down, when I myself was still trying to find my own game and returning some shuttles loosely at times. When we were able to win the first game, I could play much comfortably in the second game Marcus : When we were down 18-20 in the first game, we just tried to do our best first. Their defense was so solid and their blocking was good too. We found our game in the second game and we got the "feeling" right. Kevin : We still need one more point, anything can happen. I hope the other mates can win. (BATC 2020) Indonesia Ungguli Malaysia 2-0 (Manila, 16/2/2020) Tim putra Indonesia sementara unggul 2-0 atas Malaysia pada babak final Badminton Asia Team Championships 2020. Setelah kemenangan Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, angka kedua disumbang ganda putra Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo/Marcus Fernaldi Gideon. Pasangan rangking satu dunia ini mengalahkan Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik dengan skor 22-20, 21-16. Meski menang dua game langsung, Kevin/Marcus sempat ketinggalan dan nyaris kehilangan game pertama saat tertinggal 18-20. Namun Kevin/Marcus berhasil merebut empat poin berturut-turut hingga akhirnya memenangkan game pertama. Kemenangan game pertama membuat Kevin/Marcus semakin percaya diri, mereka terus unggul jauh dalam perolehan angka. Sebaliknya, Chia/Soh banyak melakukan kesalahan sendiri. "Di game pertama, mereka lebih siap dari kami, sepertinya mereka benar-benar sudah menyiapkan strategi. Mereka nggak gampang mati, saya sendiri masih banyak cari-cari permainan, masih banyak pukulan yang tanggung. Waktu game pertama bisa menang, di game kedua lebih enak mainnya," komentar Kevin soal permainan. "Waktu ketinggalan 18-20 di game pertama, kami hanya coba lakukan yang terbaik dulu. Pertahanan lawan rapat sekali, blocking-nya juga bagus. Di game kedua, kami lebih enak feeling-nya, sudah lebih ketemu cara mainnya," tutur Marcus. Meski sudah unggul 2-0, Kevin/Marcus berharap tim tetap waspadai lawan karena pertandingan belum berakhir. "Kami masih butuh satu poin lagi, apa pun bisa terjadi. Semoga teman-teman yang lain bisa menang," kata Kevin. Saat berita ini diturunkan, Jonatan Christie tengah bertanding di partai ketiga melawan Cheam June Wei. (*)
With minions participation and winning their matches in BATC, if my calculation is right, they gained 11,053 points from defeating the highest ranked opponents in the final Chia/Soh. Edit : Since there is only one team event tournament can be included into the ranking, means minions only gained 50 points than their last week's total ranking points. Updated 17/02/2020 : Olympics qualification starting : * Sudirman Cup (Mixed Team); 19 - 26 May -> Bronze Medalist ; Pts: 11,003; * Indonesia Open Super 1000; 16 - 21 Jul -> Champion; Pts: 12,000 +; Total: 12,000 * Japan Open Super 750; 23 - 28 Jul -> Champion; Pts: 11,000 +; Total: 23,000 * Thailand Open Super 500; 30 Jul - 04 Aug -> QF exit; Pts: 5,040; * World Championships (Individual); 19 - 25 Aug -> R2 exit; Pts: 1,300; * China Open Super 1000; 17 - 22 Sep -> Champion; Pts : 12,000 +; Total: 35,000 * Korea Open Super 500; 24 - 29 Sep -> QF exit; Pts: 5,040; * Denmark Open Super 750; 15 - 20 Oct -> Champion; Pts: 11,000 +; Total: 46,000 * French Open Super 750; 22 - 27 Oct -> Champion; Pts: 11,000 +; Total: 57,000 * Fuzhou China Open Super 750; 05 - 10 Nov -> Champion; Pts: 11,000 +; Total: 68,000 * Hong Kong Open Super 500; 12 - 17 Nov -> QF exit; Pts: 5,040; * W.T.F; 11-15 Dec -> SF exit; Pts: 8,400 +; Total: 76,400 2020 * (1)Malaysia Masters Super 500; 07- 12 Jan -> QF exit; Pts: 5,040 +; Total: 81,440 * (2)Indonesia Masters Super 500; 14 - 19 Jan -> Champions; Pts: 9,200 +; Total: 90,640 * Badminton Asia Team Championships (Team); 12-16 Feb -> Gold medalists; Pts: 11,053+; Total: 101,693 (3)All England Open Super 1000; 11-15 Mar (4)Malaysia Open Super 750; 31 Mar - 05 Apr (5)Singapore Open Super 500; 07 - 12 Apr (?)Badminton Asia Championships (Individual); 21 - 26 Apr Olympics qualification ended Thomas Cup Finals (Team); 16 - 24 May (6) Thailand Open Super 500; 09 - 14 Jun (7) Indonesia Open Super 1000; 16 - 21 Jun Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Badminton (Individual); 25 Jul - 03 Aug (8) China Open Super 1000; 15 - 20 Sep (9) Japan Open Super 750; 22 - 27 Sep (10) Denmark Open Super 750; 13 - 18 Oct (11) French Open Super 750; 20 - 25 Oct (12) Fuzhou China Open Super 750; 03 - 08 Nov (13) Hong Kong Open Super 500; 10 - 15 Nov W.T.F; 09 - 13 Dec Pts : Points earned in the tournament Total : Total qualification points earned so far + : Counted to the top 10 results
Just for fun before we move on to AE's draw that just came out today. While looking at the Race to Tokyo ranking and calculating minions points. It just came across my mind, "what ifs" minions won all the four tournaments left till the qualification period ends and trying to calculate what is the highest points minions could get for their Race to Tokyo ranking points. There are four more tournaments before the qualification ended. And let's pretend that no virus outbreak ever happened so BAC is still going according to plan. Their three lowest tournament points in their Race to Tokyo are from WTF (: 8,400), Malaysia Masters 5,040) and Indonesia Masters 9,200). So All England Open Super 1000 : 12,000 = 108,653 Malaysia Open Super 750 : 11,000 = 111,253 Singapore Open Super 500 : 9,200 = 111,253 Badminton Asia Championships (Individual) : 9200 = 111,253 If they won both AE and Malaysia Open : - 111,253 It will be their maximum points as the third lowest points is 9200 which would not change their total rankings even if they win SO or BAC. Which is 9,560 points more than what they have at this point 101,693. - 1 Team event, 3 Super 1000s, 5 Super 750s, 1 Super 500. Two Grand Slams in 52 weeks AND, had they won WC and WTF, their total points would have been 117,053!! Anyway this is just numbers. Only for statistic and for fun's sake. The only thing matters is that they win a medal in Tokyo (even better, the Gold) Pray pray pray pray that the luck will be on their side
I wonder how much it costs to enter a tournament. The higher the level the more expensive? WC and WTF are by invitations only I supposed.
AE's draw. Minions will face (if they win their matches) Ranki/Shetty in R1; Ou/Zhang or Ko/Shin in R2; Chia/Soh or Ast/Ras in QF; Li/Liu or Kim/Lee(?) or Lee/Wang or Ong/Teo in SF; Trickier opponents are on the bottom half, fortunately or unfortunately depends on how we see it.
I can't believe the car hasn't been flattened out.. I believe it's has always been the parents or relatives excuse to buy toys for the kids when it was actually they wanted the toys for themselves. Poor Jr... "Papaaaaaaaa..."
The fact that the car is still good means Marcus has still chance to win Olympic gold. If it crushed, I think he is too overweight to win the gold
Italy's IC final was cancelled, GO is cancelled, I wonder what till be the fate of AE and Swiss Open afterwards. I hope minions and all other players are all heatlhy and not infected. Heard that it is still zero confirmed case in Indonesia? This cancellations of tournaments will hurt some players qualification to Olympics (if there is OG this year.. looks like the its fate will be decided in 3 months).
Ahead of All England, Kevin/Marcus still has some homework to do Ahead of All England, Herry IP said there's still some homework to do for Kevin/Marcus, especially on the defensive aspect. "For Kevin/Marcus there's more homework for Marcus, because he's been targeted a lot by the opponent" said Herry IP "But I told Kevin too, how he need to play his shot better so it's difficult for the opponent to target marcus. his lift and return need to be precise" "Yes Kevin's defense is a lot harder to penetrate, there's a lot of solution, Marcus defense need to be improved, or Kevin's shot placement need to be better, so many alternative for that". https://www.suara.com/sport/2020/02/27/134738/jelang-all-england-2020-kevin-marcus-masih-sisakan-pr
