AJC 2023: Ruzana Fails to Lead Indonesia to Finish India Early

– Women’s singles, Ruzana, has not been able to ensure that Indonesia will advance to the semifinals of the 2023 Badminton Asia Junior Championships (AJC) after being defeated by India’s representatives.

Competing at the Amongraga Sports Hall, Yogyakarta, Monday (10/7/2023), Ruzana surrendered to Rakshitha Sree Santhosh Ramraj in a three-game battle with a score of 18-21, 21-10, 21-23.

The badminton player who was born on March 22, 2005 admitted that he lost focus in the third game. When entering the interval for the final set, the player born in Lubuk Linggau admitted that his game was starting to slacken. The peak was when the critical points, Ruzana lost her best game so she had to give up within 1 hour and 9 minutes.

According to runner up In the 2021 Bangladesh Junior International Series, at first everything was going well, but he lost focus starting in the middle of the third game. At critical points, Ruzana started to lose focus until she was finally caught up.

“Rakshitha Sree Santhosh Ramraj’s game in this match was looser. No wonder the Indian player was able to control the flow of the match and was able to win the match,” he added. Ruzana also admitted that she made many mistakes herself.

“I’m trying to fix the shortcomings, especially on the problem of match focus. It is hoped that with an evaluation of my game I can be much better going forward,” said Ruzana.

“I want to improve my playing focus. As much as possible I don’t want to make too many mistakes myself. It’s sad for sure to fail to win and not be able to ensure Indonesia’s victory in the quarterfinals against India,” concluded Ruzana.

With this result, India was able to reduce the position to 1-2 against Indonesia in the AJC 2023 quarter-finals.

In this match, Indonesia opened the scoring through mixed doubles Adrian Pratama/Felisha Alberta Nathaniel Pasaribu. Adrian/Felisha won two straight games over Samarveer/Radhika Sharma with a score of 21-16, 21-15.

The team nicknamed the Young and White Reds doubled their position to 2-0 through team captain Alwi Farhan. In the second men’s singles match, the world number 96 won against Ayush Shetty with a score of 18-21, 21-15, 21-19.

Indonesia is trying to ensure that it will advance to the quarterfinals when it plays the fourth party by fielding the men’s doubles, Muhammad Al Farizi/Nikolaus Joaquin. The Farizi/Joaquin pair will face India’s men’s doubles, Divyam Arora/Mayank Rana.