Yeah most tobacco companies have huge, huge marketing budgets. Kinda needed when you need to overcome the fact that your product is killing people and everybody kinda knows. Similar to how churches and charities really spend a lot of effort on cultivating this image that they're doing a lot of good, when many are actually not a net positive (or not even nearly as efficient as you'd think). From what I've read, Djarum has branched out quite significantly (owning a majority share in a bank, for example), but their core business and brand still seems to be cigarettes. Which is a product no athlete in the western hemisphere endorses afaik
nah.... Melati needs to lose weight. One can simply take a look at Dora from CHN. She has lost a lot of weight and she is more nimble in court. Melati/Praveen lost to scratch pair ranked #234. They have not won a single title since paired up.
I don't see any improvement from praveen in these last 2 years, they should just try him in MD. maybe herry ip could help him there.
Well, is he the only one? I can't recall other XD players have any improvement. Maybe that's just me.
Well I only mention him because I always think he's a special player, so I expect more from him...and the fact that I don't see any improvement from him in these last 2 years is just dissapointing.
I think there is a different between doesn't care and doesn't want to lose too much money. I can't say much about organising international badminton tournament but we all know that most big companies in Indonesia prefer to sponsor soccer, after that maybe boxing for sports. They also prefer to sponsor live music TV stations does not really want to pay a lot to broadcast badminton, they prefer soap dramas, soccer, boxing, f1, news as all these are "more profitable" So when BWF demands a lot of shares of the revenue, I think it is wise decision not to host it. I think BWF is the one making the mistake. If PBSI doesn't care, they will not send any players. Yet, they still send juniors players to far away places like South America for the world junior championship tournament
I don't know much about Indonesia sports scene apart from football and badminton. Is football more famous than badminton there ? Because I've heard a lot about persija vs persib derby. Their fans are one of the best and hardcore in Asia. And also u16 team is one of the best in the continent. Also, passion for badminton is very high there. Always jampacking istora from r16 onwards.
Personally I don't follow Indonesian soccer. I don't recognise any of the players. I hardly follow other country soccer club now. 20 years ago, I followed Italian soccer. But I am a minority here in Indonesia, most hardly watch badminton live on TV, except Asian Games. I watch, even sirnas on TV or live.
Football is more popular than badminton in Indonesia (but it's also a worldwide fact). Regarding badminton fans here, yes its' make full crowd in every badminton tournaments held in any national level or even in smaller level. Yeah, Istora is the heart of Indonesia badminton fans, it's the biggest annual badminton event that Indonesia have. The tickets almost sold out no matter what the price is increasing year by year.
From the Indonesia players who will compete at Thailand Masters and Malaysia Masters, there are no players like Angga, Ricky, Anggia. Does that mean they have been kicked out from national team?
Guys, let's discuss about INA players chance to go to SF. I must say that Hafiz/Gloria's chance is the lowest. Greysia/Apriyani's chance is about 50%. Winning against Chen/Jia is crucial for their chance to SF. Tommy has a good chance after he is in the same group as KW and SV. KM is the only stumbling block for him in Group B.
INA fails to send any players to SF. This must be disappointing. But, let's move on from INA's failures. I am sure that INA will come back stronger. I still have my favourites in SF. Who will you gonna root for in SF?
Chan Peng Soon/ Goh Liu Ying becomes independent players. One thing that is interesting is the comment of BAM coach that senior players should be able to perform better on their own. And the BAM should focus on junior players that needs their help as BAM has limited money. I think PBSI should do the same, they should focus more on the junior. But then PBSI head is always someone with political ambition, they also want to take credit when the players getting more succesful and popular.
2018 National Championships : December 18-22, 2018 DRAW Result: Group A: (just click to see the players list) ❆ Jaya Raya ❆ Mutiara Cardinal ❆ Berkat Abadi Group B: (click to see the players list) ❆ Djarum Kudus ❆ Sangkuriang Graha Sarana PLN ❆ Exist ❆ PBAD Previous Winners (2016) : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=FB22F374-7D1B-4575-81F2-4E846329977F 1. Djarum Kudus 2. Jaya Raya 3/4. Mutiara Cardinal 3/4. Suryanaga Mutiara Timur Live TV broadcasting will be available starting from Semifinal onwards in TVRI channel.
