Yeah.. what a record. But kinda hope minions could break their own record here, in the most difficult venue for them.
https://m.badmintonindonesia.org/app/information/newsDetail.aspx?/8815 Marcus : "All (Group A) are strong pairs. It won't be easy to play them. Especially they are all in top ranking. So we must concentrate more and be more focused on the court. Hopefully we can play our best performance in this tournament" "Our preparation is so far so good today. We have quite long preparation time so we could train to the maximum. We hope we could better our result here as last year we didn't get a satisfying result due to me getting injured. We are ambitious of course, but we don't want to look too far ahead, so we just focus on the match one by one." "The air is cold here, we really have to be good at anticipating the shuttlecocks and the drift on court. We tried out the court today, we will try to adapt to it more tomorrow, just in case there are any changes. " (BWF World Tour Finals 2019) Kevin/Marcus: Nggak Gampang Lawan Mereka 12/9/2019 (Guangzhou, 9/12/2019) Ganda putra rangking satu dunia, Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo/Marcus Fernaldi Gideon berada di Grup A BWF World Tour Finals 2019 Guangzhou bersama dengan dua pasangan Jepang, Takeshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda dan Hiroyuki Endo/Yuta Watanabe serta satu wakil tuan rumah, Li Jun Hui/Liu Yu Chen. Meski berada di daftar unggulan teratas, namun Kevin/Marcus mengatakan bila fase penyisihan Grup A ini tidak akan mudah untuk dilalui. “Semuanya bagus. Pastinya nggak akan gampang melawan mereka. Apalagi mereka-mereka ini kana da di top rank. Jadi kami memang harus lebih konsentrasi dan fokus di lapangan. Semoga saja kita bisa maksimal mengeluarkan permainan terbaik di kejuaraan ini,” kata Marcus Fernaldi Gideon kepada badmintonindonesia.org. Pada kejuaraan yang sama di tahun lalu, The Minions harus pulang dengan tangan kosong setelah tidak berhasil melewati babak penyisihan grup lantaran Marcus mengalami cedera pada bagian lehernya. Untuk itu, dengan bekal persiapan yang cukup matang, Kevin/Marcus siap untuk merebut kembali gelar juara yang pernah diraihnya pada BWF World Tour Finals 2017 lalu. “Persiapan sudah cukup baik sampai hari ini. Kami punya waktu persiapan yang lumayan panjang jadi bisa maksimal latihannya. Mudah-mudahan kami bisa memperbaiki hasil kurang memuaskan tahun lalu karena saya cedera. Kami memang berambisi tapi tidak mau melihat peluang itu terlalu jauh, jadi fokus satu per satu dulu,” tuturnya. Pada sesi latihan perdana di Tianhe Gymnasium, Guangzhou, Senin (9/12), Kevin/Marcus lebih fokus memaksimalkan beberapa teknik pukulan. “Di sini udaranya dingin, kami harus pintar-pintar juga antisipasi shuttlecock dan angin di lapangan. Hari ini sudah coba sedikit penyesuaian, besok kami akan coba adaptasi lagi, karena khawatir ada perbedaan,” tandasnya. (*)
Maybe they are very comfortable. I quite like them too and the jerseys. Not too gay like the bumble bee or the racing flags on the chest. I hope they will wear a newly designed jerseys, I don't think the orange will blend nicely to red court
Minions will play Li/Liu on 11 December scheduled at 6 pm on court 1. Do they have live coverage on the matches on both? Or just selected matches on TV court?
https://m.badmintonindonesia.org/app/information/newsDetail.aspx?/8818 Coach Herry 's evaluation on MD results in Sea Games here. Overall he was happy with Wahyu/Ade's and unhappy with Fajar/Rian's performance in this event. Rian under performed in the team event, while Fajar didn't do well in the individual event. And from the article Coach Herry also mentioned in this paragraph: “Buat Fajar Rian penampilan mereka tidak baik dan terus merosot. Mereka harus memperbaiki semuanya. Baik dari segi teknik, mental dan semuanya. Kalau enggak tahun depan mereka bisa tersusul Wahyu/Ade atau bahkan sama Leo (Rolly Carnando)/Daniel (Marthin). Karena tahun depan kesempatan akan terus terbuka. Siapa yang tidak bisa memanfaatkan kesempatannya, bisa jadi tersusul dengan pemain-pemain lapis lainnya..... ” jelas Herry. More or less saying that if Fajar/Rian didn't fix their issues in technical, mental and everything, they might be surpassed by Wahyu/Ade or even Leo (Rolly Carnando)/Daniel (Marthin) next year. So I guess the coach specifically mentioned Leo/Daniel as the upcoming pair, the talk about Kevin being paired with one of the junior is purely speculation. At least for now.
This time the jerseys are kinda like a soccer team's uniform lol Had one of the strangest dream last night, INA team sent Marcus to play single in the Sea Games individual event and he won it lol
Minions better win today's match. They are playing Endo/Wata tomorrow. Why is it the last match? Can't they put minions much earlier like swap it with the XD?
