Tommy Sugiarto Indonesia’s first single men steps into the second round of the South Korea Open Series 2015, which took place at SK Handball Stadium, Seoul, South Korea.
Meets the qualifying player from Malaysia, Zulfadli Zulkifli, in the first round, Tommy Sugiarto won two sets straight in 34 minutes, on Wednesday, 16 September 2015. Tommy fully dominated this game, for two sets, accounting only for twice Zulfadli had same points with Tommy, 1-1, and 4-4 on first set. The rest, Tommy always dominate the game.
This result brought Tommy Sugiarto to the second round to face the winner between Japanese single men and Hong Kong single men, Ng Ka Long Angus.
In this game, Indonesia also have three single men players in this number. Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka will face Wang Zhengming from China to take second round. However, Hayom had unlucky like Tommy Sugiarto. Hayom failed to step up for second round. Hayom defeated China’s single men Wang Zhenming 16-21, 21-23, in 41 minutes. Hayom could give furious resistance in the second set, however in the long run teap.
Hayom Rumbaka failed to go second round at South Korea Open 2015. (Photo: halobadminton)
Jonatan Christie goes into the main draw to fill the place left by Jan O Jogensen of Denmark will face Lee Dong-Keun from South Korea. And the result, Jonatan Christie followed Tommy Sugiarto goes to second round. Jonatan takes 1 hour, 9 minutes to beat Lee Dong-Keun in three sets battle, 23-21, 16-21, and 21-13.
“I just wanted to play all out, and I wanted to show that even though I still young, I could give my best,” Jonatan said.
In the second round Jonatan Cristie will face player from Japan Sho Sasakiwho beat player from Ireland, Scot Ivans.
The fourth Indonesian representative is Ihsan Maulana Mustafa, the 19 years old who started his journey from qualification round was met Marc Zwiebler as at the Japan Open Super Series 2015. Ihsan won the first round by defeating Marc Zwiebler with three sets, 19-21, 21-11, 21-12, in 65 minutes.
“I play impatiently. The point I have to be patient. Play in the same field. It seems Marc less steady with the ball from me. So he was less able to speed up the game. So he followed my game a lot. But also quite difficult to handle his styles.” Ihsan said.
Next, Ihsan Maulana Mustafa will face China’s single men Tian Houwei in second round. Ihsan also expects that he could show the best performance.
“I have never met players from China. So I want to face China’s single men. But I don’t mean to win the game.” Ihsan said.
