Indonesia Badminton 2012: Indonesian Simon Santoso Takes the Title

-DR.ABDUL RUFF

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·  Badminton,or Shuttle coke, played as juniortennis by using smaller rackets is being promaotted in cerlianpartsof the world, espcially in South Eat and East Asia. Having got a big agneda, India hasalso been interest in batminton. Muslims generlaly donot take interest in sprotsandmany Musim countries do not have the resources to fund the sports.

·  The Muslim rulers and their cronies eat away bulks of the resources. The wrost examples are Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Simon Santoso of Indonesia is the champion of Indonesia Badminton 2012 he defeated China's Pengyu Du. The orgnizers announcedSantoso as wiorld cahmpionbut Indonesia open is a reigonal event and the winner canot be the world lchamiopn. he is just the champions of the event Indonesia Open Premier Super Series 2012 at Jakarta, Indonesia.

Still, Santoso has acheived great feat for hmslef and his world. Santoso, who is seventh seed in Indonesia Open, showed a gutsy performance as he played controlled and positive badminton and ended the incredible winning run of the best shuttlers, mostly in straight games.

Indonesia’s ace shuttler Simon Santoso kept his hopes alive to win the title as he reserved his berth in Men’s Singles final after ending the gallant run of India’s Kashap in semi-final battle at Jakarta. The Indonesian has been calm, moslty cool and collected to win the title. Ealer, Simon Santoso ended gallant run of Parapalli Kashap in Men’s Singles semi-final; Kashap had defeated the China's rank number 1.

Santoso, who is currently World Number 9 in Men’s Singles world ranking, showed an impressive performance and easily overpowered all opponents.  In 2005 he won the Robot HCMC Vietnam Satellite and the silver medal at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games. His best results on the world circuit until recently were runner-up finishes at the Singapore (2008), Swiss (2007), and Indonesia Super Series (2008) events . He was also a semi-finalist at the Japan Open Super Series (2007) and the Chinese Taipei Open (2007). In September 2008, Santoso won the Chinese Taipei Open after defeating Roslin Hashim from Malaysia in the final round by scores of 21–18, 13–21, 21–10. In October 2009, he won his first Super Series ever in Denmark Open Super Series, after beating Marc Zwiebler of Germany in the final round, 21-14, 21-6. He won gold in the 2009 Southeast Asian Games by defeating Sony Dwi Kuncoro. In 2011, He retained his gold medal in 2011 Southeast Asian Games by beating Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk in 3 sets. In 2012, He helped Indonesia Garuda to win the inaugural Axiata cup 2012.

More people have also got medals too in other categories, including India's Sania Nehruwal.

Indoneisa, the hosts, already had much to cheer about as Indonesia’s Olympic-bound women’s doubles pair Greysia Polii and Meiliana Jauhari won their first match in five encounters against Japan’s world No.8 pair Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna . Jauhari’s heavy hitting from the back, and astute work by playmaker Polii up front, unsettled the Japanese.

The highlight of Indonesia Open in Badminton is thw xollpse of top Chinese players. Many of them crashed out ealier tht too to ordianry players.

Maybe the collapse was intnetinal or careless attitude which could even be the Chinese tactic for the forthcoming Olympics. After all, China is a member of UNSC.