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Injury forces Kido/Hendra to skip All England tournament
Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan, Indonesia's best men's doubles partners will likely skip the world's oldest badminton tournament, the All England Super Series, because of Kido's nagging knee injury
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Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan, Indonesia's best men's doubles partners will likely skip the world's oldest badminton tournament, the All England Super Series, because of Kido's nagging knee injury.
"I'm not going to All England as it *my left knee* still hurts," Kido said in a text message on Saturday.
World No. 2 Kido and Hendra would be among four Indonesian pairs - Yonatan Suryatama/Rian Sukmawan, Bona Septano/Muhammad Ahsan and Joko Riyadi/Candra Wijaya - to take part in the US$200,000 tournament at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham next month.
Kido, who recently backed down from his threat to quit the national team after settling a contract fee dispute with the Badminton Association of Indonesia (PBSI), incurred the injury during last year's Indonesian Open, which prompted the pair to abandon their quarterfinal match. He however regained his fitness long enough for the pair to bring home Indonesia's only gold medal from the Beijing Olympics.
The pair failed to maintain their winning form as they dropped out of the World Super Series in November, because of the injury. They also crashed out in the second round of Korean Super Series last month.
Their withdrawal from the All England will make way for German pair Kristof Hopp and Johannes Schoetlerr to advance to the second round, where they will go up against Kido's brother Bona and Ahsan.
Meanwhile, it will be an Indonesia-Malaysia affair with Yonatan and Rian challenging fourth seeds Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif and Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari, and Joko and Candra playing against Gan Teik Chai and Tan Bin Shen in the first round.
Indonesia's men's singles hopes will rest on world No. 5 Sony Dwi Kuncoro, world No. 7 Taufik Hidayat, world No. 10 Simon Santoso and Tommy Sugiarto. It will be 2004 Olympic champion Taufik's first campaign in a tournament on his own, after he resigned from the national team.
The team will not feature world No. 5 Vita Marissa, who announced her resignation from the national training camp as of Feb. 10, citing dissatisfaction over contract fees.
