Jakarta –
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo/Marcus Fernaldi Gideon stopped in the round of 8 Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Minions admitted that he played badly.
At Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Thursday (29/7/2021) morning WIB, Kevin/Marcus fell from Malaysian couple Aaron Chia/Soh Woii. The Minions lost two straight games, 14-21 and 17-21.
This defeat was disappointing because of the status of Marcus / Kevin as Indonesia’s first seed to win a medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Moreover, Aaron/Soh are opponents that Marcus/Kevin have often managed to overcome in previous meetings. In total, Marcus/Kevin managed to record seven victories over the Malaysian representative.
Kevin felt that his preparations to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were mature and maximal. Warming up ahead of the match, has also been done earlier than when they faced the preliminary round.
“We played badly and the result is like this. What else can we do,” said Kevin in the release of the Indonesian Olympic Committee.
The pressure to win a medal is said by Marcus to be a heavy burden to be able to show the best ability.
“There are a lot of pressure factors on us, we hope to win or bring home a medal. But actually all the players who appear in this Olympics are balanced and we don’t know anything like that.
what,” said Marcus.
“Our game is really under pressure, we also really want to win. While the opponents play nothing to lose and their game is really better than ours,” he added.
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