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More shuttlers dropped from RI training camp
Twenty-one shuttlers have been expelled from the national training camp (pelatnas), in Cipayung, East Jakarta, due to their poor performance last year, while those staying will focus on the Korea Open Super Series as their first test of 2014
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wenty-one shuttlers have been expelled from the national training camp (pelatnas), in Cipayung, East Jakarta, due to their poor performance last year, while those staying will focus on the Korea Open Super Series as their first test of 2014.
The 2005 SEA Games gold medalist Adriyanti Firdasari, 2011 SEA Games gold medalist Bona Septano and his former partner in the men's doubles event Fran Kurniawan as well as Fran's former mixed doubles partner Shendy Puspa Irawati were among the players who were dropped from the training camp.
'I'm glad I could be a part of the camp until 2013. It is sad to finally leave but I realize I cannot be part of pelatnas forever,' said Adriyanti in a statement.
The women's singles player, who joined the national squad for 11 years, said she was planning to go professional.
'I need to try something new, I want to know what [career] life outside pelatnas is like,' said the member of Jaya Raya Jakarta club.
In contrasting mood, 20-year-old Praveen Jordan, who plays for the mixed doubles event, felt happy to join the national training camp.
His achievements during 2013 ' winning seven titles from the New Zealand Open Grand Prix, Indonesia Open Grand Prix Gold and Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold with old hand Vita Marissa ' was the reason for him being summoned to join the camp.
Vita left pelatnas in 2009 and has become an independent professional player in women's doubles and mixed doubles events ever since.
Praveen will be paired with Debby Susanto, whose partner Muhammad Rijal had been dropped from the training camp this year.
'I have trained with Debby for few days. We're still trying to figure out our best and worst qualities. We are still in the phase of adjustment,' he said. 'Being part of the national squad does not make me feel burdened, on the contrary I feel more motivated.'
The Korea Open Super Series on Jan. 7-12 is the opening competition this year and will be an event to test the performance of several players, especially Simon Santoso, whose rank dropped to 67 from top 20 due to the parotitis he suffered earlier last year.
He last played Malaysia's Chun Seang Tan in the semifinals of Vietnam Grand Prix in December.
'We will give him chances to improve his performance. If he cannot meet our target to advance to semifinals of the Korea Open Super Series and Malaysia Open Super Series this month he will have to be dropped from the national squad,' said the Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI) head of development and achievement, Rexy Mainaky.
