Pinay shuttlers beaten black and blue in Asian team tilt

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:03:00 +0000

By KRISTEL SATUMBAGA

The Philippine women’s badminton team put on a gallant fight but its best was not enough, absorbing another 5-0 beating, this time to powerhouse Indonesia Wednesday in the Badminton Asia Team Championships 2020 at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

NICOLE Albo

Still licking their wounds from a 5-0 demolition at the hands of Thais on Tuesday, the PH women’s shuttlers found the Indons too hot to handle.

Airah Mae Nicole Albo came close to scoring a historic feat when she beat Gregoria Tunjung in the first set, but the Indonesian rebounded mightily to complete a 19-21, 21-11, 21-9 win.

The Nationals then fell one after the other as Alyssa Leonardo and Thea Marie Pomar bowed to Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu, 21-18, 21-12, and Bianca Carlos succumbed to Russell Hartawan, 21-10, 21-18.

Joella De Vera and Chanelle Lunod lost to Siti Fadia Ramadhanti and Ribka Sugiarto, 21-7, 21-8, before Sarah Joy Barredo absorbed a 21-19, 21-14 defeat to Putri Kusuma Wardani in 43 minutes.

On Tuesday afternoon, Philippines yielded to Chinese Taipei in men’s division.

PH’s top singles player Ros Pedrosa succumbed to world No. 2 Cho
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