That Winning Feeling
Two weeks ago, no one would have predicted that Indonesia’s Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva Oktavianti would have gone back-to-back during the European swing of the HSBC BWF World Tour, let alone consecutive wins…
· Lloyd Green
Two weeks ago, no one would have predicted that Indonesia’s Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva Oktavianti would have gone back-to-back during the European swing of the HSBC BWF World Tour, let alone consecutive wins over world No.1s Zheng Si Wei and Huang Ya Qiong.
Such is the dominance of Zheng and Huang, and to a lesser extent, world No.2s Wang Yi Lyu and Huang Dong Ping, that victory to any other pair would have seemed out of reach.
But Jordan and Oktavianti have taken their game to a new level this past fortnight and have joined the upper echelon of mixed doubles contenders.