"It's all about level in badminton."
Jeyhun Mammadaliyev, the former head coach of the Azerbaijan national badminton team, told Idman.biz.
He evaluated the performance of the team members at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. According to Mammadaliyev, in other sports, the 35th-ranked athlete can defeat the 5th-ranked athlete with one move: "However, this is not the case in badminton. If there is a difference in level, it shows itself in all moments. Keisha Fatimah Azzahra was in the "Death Group" at the Olympics. Because the Chinese are number one in the world. Other athletes of the group were also very superior in terms of level. That is, the main reason for his defeat is related to this. It would be wrong to say that Keisha is a poor athlete. It's just that their opponents were very strong. That's why he had a lot of trouble."
He said that Ade Resky Dwicahyo could not recover in the last match in the group: "He won against the Austrian in the first match. I really liked the performance of our athlete. He did everything very well. I know Ade personally and have raced with him many times. He is an athlete who works on himself and always takes responsibility for his work. There is also self-confidence. However, Ade could not recover in the first set against Danish Anders Antonsen, who is the fourth in the world in his second match. The opponent did not take the pressure anymore. But he performed very well in the second set. He played well overall. He committed technical errors in the first set. The opponent was clearly lucky twice in the game. All this affected the game."
Banuchichek Huseynli
Idman.biz
