Many top athletes are wondering how to excel at the important moments in their career. It is an art in itself. In Badminton there currently seem to be two Indonesians who master this art the best: Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan.
For these men 2010 wasn’t very successful so far. They announced that they didn’t want to play for the PBSI, the Indonesian badminton association, anymore. They started to train individually. Okay, all year they are on an average of three in the world ranking but this year they only won just one Grand Prix Gold tournament, the one in Malaysia. We, in the Netherlands, would sign on such a result, but these guys are accustomed to better results. A few weeks ago, in Denmark, they were second behind the new numbers 1 in the world, the Danes Boe and Mogensen. And precisely these two men are of course not active at the Asian Games. As the rest of the top 15 is all Asian, you may call it a very strong tournament. Seeded secondly, they won all their matches in three games. In succession they defeated a Japanese couple, the second couple of Chinese Taipei, the numbers 1 of Korea and finally the Malaysians Koo and Tan. A bit more than two years after their Olympic golden match in Beijing they managed it again and this time in Guangzhou: Gold at the Asian Games!
