TWO-thirds of Christian Hadinata’s life has been spent on badminton, even though his first love was football. He actually hit his first shuttlecock in his teens, but since then Christian has never been involved in any other sport but badminton.

Why he decided to focus on playing doubles was quite simple. “I was not likely to compete against the likes of Rudy Hartono and Muljadi,” he explained. He was quite right. Christian became a superb