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Putting it briefly: Indonesia'€™s sights set on two titles

Indonesia has the chance to win two titles after Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir and Greysia Polii/Nitya Krishinda Maheswari managed to advance to the final of the Korea Open badminton championship on Saturday

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Sun, September 20, 2015 Published on Sep. 20, 2015 Published on 2015-09-20T15:45:01+07:00

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ndonesia has the chance to win two titles after Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir and Greysia Polii/Nitya Krishinda Maheswari managed to advance to the final of the Korea Open badminton championship on Saturday.

Tontowi/Liliyana eased past Chris Adcock/Gabrielle Adcock of England 21-9, 21-15 in the mixed doubles semifinals and will face top seeds Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei of China. Women'€™s doubles pair Greysia/Nitya were rewarded with a final match against Chang Ye-na/Lee So-hee of South Korea after they overcame Chinese Luo Ying/Luo Yu 21-18, 17-21, 21-13.

Their advance to Sunday'€™s matches is an improvement from the Japan Open last week when they were stopped in the quarterfinals.

'€œTomorrow we must be more focused. We have lost in the past several meetings with them. They are difficult to beat,'€ Tontowi said according to a release by the Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI). The Indonesians have suffered six defeats on the trot against their opponents. '€œWe'€™ll try again tomorrow,'€ Tontowi said.

The other three final matches will pit Chen Long (China) against Ajay Jayaram (India) in the men'€™s singles, Sung Ji-hyun (Korea) against Wang Yihan (China) in the women'€™s singles and Lee Yong-dae/Yoo Yeon-seong (Korea) against Kim Gi-jung/Kim Sa-rang (Korea) in the men'€™s doubles.

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