The victories achieved by Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo at the recent All England tournament is a refreshing welcome, in the midst of a dearth in Indonesia's badminton rankings. They are not only champions, they dominated the men's doubles at the world's oldest badminton tournament at Birmingham, the UK, last March 7-12.

Since the first round of this super series tournament, Marcus and Kevin only lost one set, and that was in