KFF Singapore Badminton Open 2024 | Alfian/Ardianto (INA) [7] vs. Liang/Wang (CHN) | QF
Summary
TLDRThe script details a badminton match between the Indonesian pair of Al-Fad and Aranto and the Chinese pair of Lang and Wang at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The Indonesians, former world champions and recent winners of the All England, dominate the match, winning in just 32 minutes with a score of 21-17, 21-9. This marks a significant victory for Al-Fad and Aranto, who have been steadily improving in 2024, while the Chinese pair, despite being world number two, seem off their game. The audience is left anticipating the upcoming semi-finals.
Takeaways
- ๐พ The event is a badminton match taking place in Singapore with a good attendance, likely due to the presence of Singapore's former world champion.
- ๐ The Indonesian pair, Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto, are former world number ones and have an impressive record with multiple titles and medals.
- ๐ The Chinese pair, Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen, are currently ranked number two in the world and have a history of success, including being World Champions and World Junior champions.
- ๐ Both pairs have had a strong performance in the tournament so far, with the Indonesians having a slightly more consistent record in reaching quarterfinals.
- ๐ค The Indonesian pair has won 11 titles together and has a head-to-head record of 5-2 against the Chinese pair, with all matches except the first going to three sets.
- ๐ The match is highly competitive, with only a few points separating the world number one and number two pairs in the rankings.
- ๐ The Indonesian pair has a strong start in the match, taking the first game and leading by a significant margin in the second game.
- ๐ The Chinese pair has had an inconsistent year with early exits in some tournaments but managed to win the Asia Championships.
- ๐ The Indonesian pair's performance in the match is described as 'absolutely brilliant,' with a quick and decisive victory.
- ๐ The final score is a significant win for the Indonesian pair, with the Chinese pair only scoring 26 points in total, marking a new record for the Indonesians against their opponents.
- ๐ The semi-finals are scheduled for the next day at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, with coverage starting at 12:00 local time.
Q & A
What is the significance of the match being played at the Singapore Indoor Stadium?
-The match is significant due to the presence of Singapore's own former world champion, which has helped draw a very good attendance at the Indoor Stadium.
Who are the Indonesian players and what are their notable achievements?
-The Indonesian players are Faj Alfad and his partner, who are former world number one pairs, 2022 World champions, silver medalists at the 2018 Asian Games, and have won 11 titles together including the All England this year.
What is the current world ranking of the Chinese pair, Lang and Wang Chong?
-Lang and Wang Chong are currently ranked number two in the world, having achieved the number one ranking in October of the previous year.
What was the outcome of the last match between these two pairs before the Singapore Open?
-The last match between these pairs was at the Thomas Cup 26 days prior to the Singapore Open, where they faced each other.
How has the Indonesian pair performed in the current year before the Singapore Open?
-The Indonesian pair has had a good performance with 18 wins out of 25 matches before the Singapore Open, including winning the All England and reaching quarterfinals in multiple tournaments.
What was the Chinese pair's performance in the tournaments leading up to the Singapore Open?
-The Chinese pair had an inconsistent performance with an initial win at the Malaysia Open but then faced early exits in the second round of three consecutive tournaments - the India Open, French Open, and All England.
What was the final score of the match between the Indonesian pair and the Chinese pair?
-The Indonesian pair, Alen and Aranto, won the match against the Chinese pair, Lang and Wang Chong, with a score of 21-17, 21-9.
How long did the match last and what was the general pace of the game?
-The match lasted just 32 minutes, indicating a fast-paced game with quick points being scored.
What was the head-to-head record between the two pairs before this match?
-Before this match, the head-to-head record was 5-2 in favor of the Chinese pair, Lang and Wang Chong.
How has the Indonesian pair's performance been against Chinese pairings in quarterfinals?
-The Indonesian pair has not had a good record against Chinese pairings in quarterfinals, winning only twice in nine meetings and losing their last four in a row.
What is the significance of the upcoming semi-finals at the Singapore Indoor Stadium?
-The semi-finals are significant as they will be played on court one, the main court, and will feature the remaining top competitors in the tournament, starting at 12:00 local time.
Outlines
๐ธ Introduction to the Match
The video script introduces a badminton match taking place in Singapore's Indoor Stadium with a good attendance, likely due to Singapore's former world champion, lanu, playing in the last match of the day. The match features the Indonesian pair Faj Alfad and M Riad, who have an impressive record, including being former world champions and having won 11 titles together. They are up against the Chinese pair L and W, who are currently ranked second in the world and have also achieved significant victories, including being World Junior champions and winning the Malaysia Open. The script sets the stage for what is expected to be a challenging match for both pairs.
๐ฏ Early Match Tension
The script describes the early stages of the match as being very tight, with quick points and minimal rallies. The Indonesian pair, ranked seventh in the world, is playing against the Chinese pair, ranked second, indicating a high level of competition. The Chinese pair is on the verge of becoming the new world number ones due to their performance in the tournament. The commentary highlights the close scores and the high skill level of both pairs, with a focus on the precision and power of their shots.
๐ Indonesian Pair's Strong Start
The Indonesian pair starts strongly, winning the first game against the Chinese pair. The script notes that the Indonesians have a good record in quarterfinals, having won 27 out of 42 matches. In contrast, the Chinese pair's performance has been less consistent, with ups and downs throughout the year. The commentary also mentions the importance of the drift issue, which seems to have affected the Chinese pair's performance, and the Indonesians capitalize on this to take a two-point lead.
๐ Indonesians Extend Lead
The Indonesian pair continues to dominate, extending their lead to eight points in the second game. The script highlights the impressive performance of the Indonesians, who have been on an upward trajectory throughout the year, reaching multiple quarterfinals and winning the prestigious All England title. The Chinese pair, despite being Asian Champions, has struggled to maintain consistency, with early exits in several tournaments. The commentary emphasizes the need for a strong comeback from the Chinese pair to stay in the match.
๐คฏ Indonesians Secure Victory
The Indonesian pair secures a decisive victory, winning the first game in straight points. The script notes that the Chinese pair has been outplayed to an unusual extent, with the Indonesians winning the match in a surprisingly quick time. The commentary reflects on the head-to-head record between the pairs, which favors the Chinese pair, but the current match outcome contradicts this trend. The Indonesians' victory is a significant one, marking their biggest ever win against their opponents.
๐ Post-Match Analysis
After the match, the script provides an analysis of the performance of both pairs. The Indonesians are praised for their consistent performance throughout the year, reaching multiple quarterfinals and winning titles. The Chinese pair, despite being Asian Champions, has had a less successful year, with several early exits and inconsistent performances. The commentary also discusses the historical records of both pairs against each other and their overall records in quarterfinals, highlighting the contrast between their past successes and the current match outcome.
๐ Indonesians' Impressive Win
The script concludes with a summary of the Indonesian pair's impressive win, noting that they have converted a quarterfinal into a semifinal, which is a rare achievement for them in 2024. The match ended quickly, with the Indonesians scoring a significant victory in just 32 minutes. The commentary expresses surprise at the extent of the Chinese pair's defeat and commends the Indonesians for their excellent performance, leaving the audience looking forward to the upcoming semifinals.
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Keywords
๐กIndoor Stadium
๐กWorld Champion
๐กIndonesia
๐กAsian Games
๐กMalaysia Open
๐กQuarterfinals
๐กRankings
๐กChallenge
๐กService Judge
๐กBreak
Highlights
Good attendance at the Indoor Stadium, possibly due to Singapore's former world champion in action.
Faj, Alfad and partner are former world number one pair, with multiple titles and medals.
The Indonesian pair have won 11 titles together and were runners-up six times, including the All England this year.
L and partner are currently number two in the world, having achieved the number one spot in October of last year.
The Chinese pair have had an inconsistent year with early exits but also victories, including the Malaysia Open.
The longest rally of the match was tight but was challenged and found to be out.
The Indonesians took the first game with a strong finish, winning four points in a row.
The head-to-head record is 5-2 in favor of the young Indonesian pair.
The Indonesians have a poor record against Chinese pairings in quarterfinals, having lost their last four.
The Chinese pair have an excellent record in quarterfinals, winning 14 out of 15.
The Indonesians took a significant lead in game two, putting themselves in a strong position.
The Chinese pair seemed passive and outplayed, which is unusual for them.
The Indonesians secured an 11-point lead, indicating a monumental collapse would be needed for the Chinese to win.
The Indonesian pair won the match with the biggest ever win against their opponents, scoring in single figures.
The match ended quickly with the Indonesians advancing to the semi-finals.
All eyes will be on court one for the semi-finals starting tomorrow at 12:00 local time.
Transcripts
opted for the near side the
Chinese lots of people in here at the
Indoor Stadium it's uh very
good attendance here and I think
obviously helped by the fact
that Singapore's very
own former world champion in lanu is in
action is the last match of the day in
court one plays leun
right to this match here at
hand faj
alfad first up 29 years of age from the
major city of bandong in Indonesia 177 C
stall playing at seventh in the world
they are former world number one pair
right at the end of
2022 World champs as well they finished
third twice in 2019 and in
2022 Asian Games silver medalists in
2018 when Indonesia were hosting it Asia
Champion bronze medalist in 2022 M Riad
aranto partner is 28 175 cm
tall Southeast Asian Games have won a
bronze in 2017 as well and as a pairing
they have won 11 titles together six
runner-up finishes including the all
England this year they be ar CH soov in
the final uh two very very
straightforward matches yes in the last
couple of days
and now of course we get to the business
end of proceedings by far their hardest
match
L is 23 176 cm to he from the south of
China
guandong and uh they are now number two
in the world they have been a number one
pair achieve first achieved in October
of last year
men's World Champions uh bronze medalist
last year in Copenhagen asan Champions
currently W Chang his partner 23 from
Tang 180 cm
tall boys doubles World Junior champions
in
2018 they've been together quite a while
now Asia jior Championship silver
medalists in 2018 as well they actually
were taken to three by sabar Gama and
moral Isani yesterday which was about
bit of a surprise
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six titles together four rounded up
finishes they won the Malaysia open this
year R
jongon of Korea is our
umpire she'll be joined by our service
judge Singaporean
s this one in the in the ballots really
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ladies and gentlemen here in
Singapore and W
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China got to a final once before in 2022
and eliminated at the quarterfinals
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Indonesia got to the final last
year they lost to takura hooki and Yugo
Kobayashi in the final quite
convincingly in
fact one
there were the number one p until quite
recently
uh Charlie
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Duo been taken over by ranky ready and
Shetty after
recent
performances particularly in the
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uh winning the tie
open Serv over
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two early exit here
over over
3 quick points here barely any round
four three
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disappointing on the return of serve
there is going to be a tight one world
number two versus World number
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seven
over five
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don't think we've had more than four or
five shots in total any of the
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points to be fair there's only 42 52
points
between number one and number two in the
world and because they've Advanced so
far they will be the new world number
ones again Chinese pair next time the
rankings are
out this is the longest rally we've had
already
oh tight but it's uh I thought that was
it challeng is called out it was called
out that's why they've uh challenged
that one
let's have a look at what happened here
yeah I very much thought that was
in in so it's proved to
be all
play oh
lovely lots to aim at there for
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it's trading on points at the moment
isn't it
into the corner nicely
done seven
looking at how
they've performed this year 18 wins out
of 25 for alen and or coming into this
tournament 17 wins to 22
for before the Singapore open
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some power on those
shots 10
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yeah really hitting the marks
nicely giving it everything and into the
break of this first game we go with the
Indonesians 118 up against Chinese pair
of Yang and w
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4 two 20
seconds two 20 seconds
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118
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play 128
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yeah good quick response
there from
l a look at how well these guys have
done
so far in uh
2024 we have to say
that often RTO will be I think pretty
pleased with the year so far having
taken you know one of the biggest ones
of all the the all
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England I think where they'll be pleased
is and they ought to be really getting
to quarterfinals as a bare minimum
really that high up and they've not
failed to at least hit those Heights in
every single tournament
they've played it this
year and then the argument will be as we
only see a point between them
now maybe they should be going a little
bit beyond the quarters they've reach
the quarters of the Malaysia open India
open at French Open
heia championship's also out with the
quarters yeah that hit the ground
first so quite a few quarterfinals
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five quarterfinals this year semi-final
in the Indonesia Masters a home
tournament and of course they won the
all England but it's still pretty good
year for
them perhaps you'd argue the conversion
rate of
quarterfinals hasn't been
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fantastic Serv over 134
we contrast that with the the Chinese
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pair and it's not being particularly
Pleasant reading for
them started the
year well
enough they
one the Malaysia
openting Ry ready at chy actually but
then next few tournaments three
tournaments in a row they were out in
the second round India open French Open
and the all
England then they bounced back
absolutely
superbly to win the Asia
championships and this is their first
tournament since then on the world tour
14 15 so it's kind of been up and down a
little bit for them being a bit more
consistent for the Indonesians
oh power
power absolutely hammering that
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one 42 quarterfinals 27 wins in
quarterfinals 27 defeats for the
Indonesians so a good record in
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quarters for the Chinese
P their record in quarterfinals
obviously they haven't played as
much 15 quarterfinals they've won 14
they've lost but in terms of rate of win
very very very good they tend to win
their
quarterfinals that's
good just about 16
way out way
out tight match is
Prett it's gone very fast
left
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17 over ni put
away 18 17
T makes no mistake from
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there remember the the drift issue not
necessarily as as apparent or as big a
problem in the doubles as it would be in
the singles
press under advantage and it's a
two-point lead at a crucial stage in
this
game 19 up by two and they require
another two more to win this first game
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oh
they set up three game points here the
Indonesians that looked like it might
well have gone out of the held this is
sometimes a bit of a surprise when the
drift is with
them you've seen a number of
times that the opposition is sort of
left it thinking it's going to make its
way over it
doesn't three in a row here for the
Indonesians and they've taking this
first game first game
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by was all very
tight AP from a brief moment when they
were
leading 128
the Indonesians then it was all
tightening up and then just at the end
from 17 all they won four in a row 217
to Al and
aranto fore
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4 two 20 seconds 4 two 20 seconds
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so pretty tight first game that was uh
edged by the Indonesians
again at their head-to-head remember
it's 5-2 in favor of young and
W every single match they played except
the very first one where they face each
other in 2022 the final of the Indonesia
Masters every other match since then
meaning the next
six have all gone to three
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scanto have only ever
won when it's gone to three they've only
ever won the first game twice in those
uh last six won one and lost one just
uh give that little bit of
info relent here that was absolutely
brilliant Al really going for it
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we'll talk about that result in uh
Thomas cup just a few weeks ago in
fact 26 days ago when they last played
each
other was a now 14
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minutes on average their
matches go an hour there
abouts only had
20 odd minutes on the clock here was
very quick first
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game play
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Indonesians in front by
two comfortable so far at this end
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it's it's really quite part you take
away the very first time they played
each other that was a bit of an
outlier last game's a bit
tight 6
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now leading by
four an excellent start for the
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Indonesians 3
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all those quarterfinals they've been
in the Indonesians they haven't got a
good record against Chinese
pairings emphatic forer
alfield they've only won twice nine
meetings against Chinese pairings in
quarterfinals they've lost their last
four in a
row and the last time the play ching and
the quarterfinal was this pair and the
Malaysia open this year
oh they both went for it nice stop drop
there play by
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Ando W and Lang against Indonesians in
quarterfinals have an excellent
record six wins only lost once three
in a quarter what was at Indonesia open
last year they lost to ranto and yakob
surprisingly that
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one that was important they win that
because otherwise it would have been
seven points
clear five instead
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just Mission today AR
they have got a winning record against
chines parings 25 wins 25 losses overall
in her entire career
w a good record as
well 18 wins six defeats against India
pairs won their last six in a row as
well
seven they're under some stress
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here well Indonesians are really good
position if they can get themselves to
115 setting themselves up
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brilliantly and that is the case
here they've come out firing in game
two this
is really
now not quite fair to say it's theirs to
lose in this in this match but we'll
just know they put
themselves in the driver seat here for
this one
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11 5
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play 10 five
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up to seven
now service
over six
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Talent is call
in we have got a challenge here it is
out
correction out over well out it's a good
good challenge that
one
136 play it's all going nicely a moment
for the Indonesians
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six well I
mean now you've got to say with an
eight-point lead this is going to
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be an excident I mean you
you you'd have to have a a Monumental
now make it nine
156 Monumental
collapse I'm a little astounded to be
honest and how this is progressing
the SP soon I say that of
course serves
that 8 15
well they've got to do something now
really the Chinese they they have to
fight back right
here if they want to stay in this I mean
it would be a very special kind of fight
back here turn this around but they have
got it within
themselves not if they play Shots like
that 16
only five points left for the
Indonesians look that four my goodness
178 well there's never been a game
scored by either one of these
pairings in double in single figures I
should
say love lowest score any one of these
pairs has got against each other is a 10
y Kong and Wang Chong the very first
time they met off nanto back at
Indonesia Masters final
2022
silver 98
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three points required AR for a big
win that's clip the net there almost
there
amazing not quite sure what's happened
today with the uh Chinese pairing just
looked very very
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passive there's a Who
11
points 11 match points that they've
got and that has been wrapped up it's
the biggest ever win for ala ronto
against their opponents now and Wang
Chan who've managed an aggregate of just
26 points today unbelievable the first
time they've ever scored just single
figures against this Indonesian pair I
don't often see them outplayed to this
extent not quite sure what's happened
but the trajectory of these two pairings
this year well it's following that
pattern Indonesians have been on the up
and up Lang Kong and W CH of the Asian
Champions they just haven't been at the
races
today they
converted a quarter to a semi that's
something they do too often in
2024 offto but they'll be pleased
they've done it
here and that was over in really quick
time and as I said the last six matches
in a row they've it's gone to three the
distance faaj Alan Muhammad ran AR the
seven seeds from Indonesia thrash Lang
and W Chan overall the second Seas of
China 217 219 it's taken them just 32
minutes to do it absolutely brilliant
performance from the
Indonesians the one that just the head
scratcher
really and let's not take anything away
from how well they have played
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today so that ends proceedings here on
court
two for this event and now all eyes will
be on court one when the semi-final
start tomorrow here the Singapore indoor
Stadium all of them to be played on that
Court the coverage begins at 12:00 local
time from Misha zadak and our team here
thanks so much for joining us and we'll
hope to see you tomorrow for the
semi-finals here at the Singapore pingon
open
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