The Art Of Badminton

Ginting, get up !

Ginting and Antonsen seemed to be stretching their muscles on the sidelines.

The first title is indeed Antonsen has not given a meaningful resistance to Ginting. But it looks like this second game style will be different. Maybe Antonsen waited for his body to heat first, so that all his ability can be removed to the maximum.

"Play...!" The Korean referee has given a warning for the second game to begin immediately.

Ginting does thin service. Antonsen returned it with a crossed backhand. Ginting picked up the ball without any difficulty. He pushed the ball far back, and Antonsen looked surprised. He reaches the ball by turning his body back. The ball of responsibility from Antonsen was immediately struck by Ginting, but Antonsen painstakingly returned the ball hit Ginting until Ginting did another strike because the return of Antonsen more responsibility. But amazingly the ball back can be reached Antonsen. Ginting looked astonished because the ball did not want to die on the opponent's field. Ginting again grabbed the ball in a hurry and finally even concerned in the net and fell on his own field.

The first point for Antonsen was the second half.

The second half was much faster than the first game. But in fact both players have not given their best performances. Several times ginting looks rushed to turn off the opponent and finally make his own mistakes. Almost half the points Antonsen earned were the result of Ginting's mistake. 11 - 8 for Antonsen's superiority. Both players looked to the sidelines to receive direction from their respective coaches.

Antonsen is back to service. He didn't look exhausted at all. His movements as usual were very safe and clean, he rarely made a mistake. Ginting returned the ball from Antonsen trying to use his secret technique of 'delaying the ball' so as to outwit the opponent and the ball fell in a completely unexpected place. But the experiment is always less than perfect and several times failed. The return ball is always on the net. The crowd at the stadium looked worried about Ginting because he did not look at his best.

"What's wrong with you Ginting...!" Rey muttered while sighing.

This second game is like a curse to Ginting. For some reason every time he experiments his secret technique, always fails and even earns points for opponents. Ginting seemed frustrated and seemed to be releasing this second game.

Antonsen is like being in the wind. The game is very clean. In this second game, he made almost no mistakes at all. Several times he did jumping smash and did instantly earn points. Ginting seemed reluctant to bother returning the ball smash Antonsen. His spirit looks very down and often makes his own mistakes.

Rey believes there's something wrong with her idol right now.

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Antonsen is getting more confident. Every serve he makes always earns points. This time a punch in one serve created no more than ten blows. Ginting is really like losing passion in his play.

It only takes three more numbers for Antonsen to finish this second game. His punches are getting more mature and very directional. No doubt this second game will be his.

Ginting receives the ball from Antonsen. He tried his very famous ball-delay technique. The ball came back but with imperfect technique. Antonsen was almost fooled, but Ginting's return ball can still be read and flew back to the empty area of Ginting's field.

Time is so fast. There was no shouting and rumbling inside the stadium.

"Games !" The referee declared the second game over and was won by Antonsen.

The final score is second 21 - 10. A score that is very far adrift. This type of score is usually called an African score, considering that in Africa there badminton is not a famous sport and athletes from Africa who compete against Asian or European players are always given a landslide score and rarely pass the number 10.

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The game of determination is about to begin. Ginting enters the field with a new racket and jersey. Rey hopes Ginting can rediscover the rhythm of the game and can give his best performance.

"May Ginting be fine." Nay looked far into the field. His tone was a little worried as if he saw something different from Ginting.

Rey turns to Nay anxiously and intends to ask for clarity from him...

"You see something Rey...?" Rey was shocked as if Nay could hear the contents of her heart.

"Ginting...?" Rey hesitated in shock.

"Who else is! What is Hyun Bin here !"

Rey smiled shyly. "Eh, who was...Hun Bin !?"

"Hyun...Hyuuunnn Bin !" Nay clarified his tone

"Is he a badminton player too? I've never heard his name before."

Nay swiggers. " Have forgotten! What we're going to talk about now is Ginting. Forget anything else but Ginting!"

Nay looked serious. Rey is ready to listen to what Nay has to say about Ginting. His heart was afraid of something unwanted with his idol.