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Indonesia eyes two badminton golds in upcoming SEA Games

Xinhua, March 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Indonesian badminton team is targeting the men's doubles and the mixed doubles gold medals at the upcoming ASEAN Games in June in Singapore, official said here Thursday.

The target was made based on the performance of the players recently, said Rexy Mainaky, head of coaching and achievement of the Indonesian badminton association.

"By seeing more stable performance at the men's doubles and the mixed doubles, we put a realistic target," he said.

On the women's singles, Rexy said that the team put a target of bronze medal.

The Indonesian team also expects to get silver medals in the men's team, the women's team and the women's doubles, and a bronze medal for the men's singles. Endi