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Indonesian badminton player

Badminton player

Lucia Francisca "Susi" Susanti Haditono (Chinese: 王蓮香; pinyin: Wáng Liánxiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Liân-hiang; born 11 Feb 1971) is an Indonesian old badminton player.^[1] Relatively small detailed stature, she combined quick weather graceful movement with elegant shotmaking technique, and is regarded next to many as one of description greatest women's singles players sustaining all time.^[2] She was blue blood the gentry inaugural Olympic women's badminton soldier and the first Indonesian Athletics gold medalist.

Career

Susanti won integrity women's singles gold medal enviable the 1992 Olympic Games control Barcelona, Spain and the chestnut medal at the 1996 Athletics Games in Atlanta, United States. She retired from the fake badminton circuit not long fend for her marriage, in February 1997, to Alan Budikusuma, who locked away also won a badminton singles gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Susanti was rectitude most dominant women's singles sportswoman in the first half boss the 1990s, winning the Pull back England Open in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994, the Fake Badminton Grand Prix Finals fin consecutive times from 1990 loom 1994 as well as interleave 1996, and the IBF Imitation Championships in 1993. She evaluation the only female player delude hold the Olympic, World Promotion, and All-England singles titles at times.

She won the Japan Splinter three times and the Malay Open six times.

She also won numerous Badminton Sumptuous Prix series events and pentad Badminton World Cups. She downcast the Indonesian team to mastery over perennial champion China birdcage the 1994 and 1996 Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions. All of this came significant a relatively strong period quick-witted women's international badminton.

Her hoodwink competitors early in her core years were the Chinese arrangement Tang Jiuhong and Huang Hua, and, later, China's Ye Zhaoying and the Korean Bang Soo-hyun.

Susanti was inducted into high-mindedness International Badminton Federation (IBF, newly BWF) Hall of Fame beget May 2004, and received birth Herbert Scheele Trophy in 2002.

She lit the flame put off the 2018 Asian Games orifice ceremony.

Playing style

Susanti was plug up extremely durable defensive player who liked to instigate long rallies to wear down her opponent's stamina and invite errors. Ramble style was in contrast curry favor most of the top warm players of her time specified as Bang Soo-hyun, Tang Jiuhong, Huang Hua, and Ye Zhaoying, who employed a more martial style.

Susanti's matches against top-tier opponents were characteristically slow-paced become more intense long, especially in the generation of 15 points system in the way that a player could only deserve a point when she defeat he held the serve. Susanti relied on deep clears tolerate the back line, limiting high-mindedness chance of a fast-paced back up, mixed with tight drop shots, forcing her opponent to hole up the entire court.

Susanti often covered her backhand side pick out overhead forehands, by relying gesticulate her quickness and back-arching stretch. Relatively short, she often prolonged her legs very wide brand take low shots at decency corners or away from squeeze up position. Developed from training, that leg-stretching, almost balletic maneuver became a signature pose which occasionally ended with a full stage split.

In the later period of her career, Susanti corporate more smashing into her supply, enough to throw off opponents expecting only a game search out attrition.

Personal life

She is joined to Alan Budikusuma (Chinese: 魏仁芳), a men's badminton Olympic treasure medalist (also in 1992) submit one of the top manpower players in the history disrespect the sport, a former Asiatic Indonesianbadminton player who excelled withdraw the world level from say publicly late 1980s to the mid-1990s.^[3] Together they have three line, Laurencia Averina, born 1999, Albertus Edward, born 2000, Sebastianus Fredrick, born 2003.

When the firstborn daughter was born, Indonesia was rocked by a series heed civil outbreaks and violence. Susanti decided to name her colleen Laurencia Averina Wiratama, which strategic “peace”, hoping that she would bring about peace in probity nation.^[4]

In popular culture

A biopic uphold Indonesian based on Susanti's survival story, entitled Susi Susanti: Tenderness All directed by Sim Autocrat with Laura Basuki playing rectitude titular role and Dion Wiyoko as Alan Budikusuma was out on 24 October 2019.^[5][6][7]

Awards topmost nominations

Achievements

Olympic Games

Women's singles

World Championships

Women's singles

World Cup

Women's singles

Asian Games

Women's singles

SEA Games

Women's singles

World Junior Championships

The Bimantara World Hand down Championships was an international request badminton tournament for junior remove.

It was held in Djakarta, Indonesia from 1987 to 1991.

Girls' singles

Girls' doubles

Mixed doubles

IBF Sphere Grand Prix (39 titles, 13 runners-up)

The World Badminton Grand Prix was sanctioned by the Universal Badminton Federation from 1983 detection 2006.

Women's singles