Rudy Hartono:
You cannot produce a champion in just one year

IT was another poor harvest at the Indonesia Badminton Open held June 21 to 26. This means that three years in a row not one Indonesian player has managed to win the tournament, causing badminton guru and former world champion Rudy Hartono to be despondent and depressed. “Why are we humiliating ourselves like this?” he asked.

In the US$600,000 tournament, the Indonesian team seems to have been happy enough to reach the finals in two events:

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