Indonesia Open: Young Guns Fire
Some time after Indonesia’s hottest young pair was done with their second round at the POLYTRON Indonesia Open 2026, the Istora was still crackling with the electricity of their performance.
· DEV SUKUMAR
Raymond Indra and Nikolaus Joaquin, their partnership just over a year old, have already been scalping the big names while summitting smaller peaks. Today, at the young pair’s first Indonesia Open, it was Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik’s turn to feel the heat. The Indonesians played at a breathless pace, all blindingly quick rallies and rapid-fire exchanges and whippy smashes, until the Malaysians left to pick the pieces of a 33-minute demolition job.
Having fallen 21-14 21-14 Chia and Soh were at a loss for words.
“They’re young and confident,” was all Chia could say.