Jonatan Christie vs Lee Zii Jia | Final Men's Team Sea Games 2019

Jonatan Christie vs Lee Zii Jia | Final Men's Team Sea Games 2019
Jonatan Christie (born 15 September 1997),[1] also known by his nickname "Jojo", is an Indonesian badminton player. He is from PB. Tangkas Specs, a badminton club from Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia and plays in men's singles discipline.

In July 2013, he won his first international senior title at the age of 15 in Indonesia International Challenge, after beating the experienced Alamsyah Yunus who is 11 years older than him in the final by 21–17, 21–10. In 2014 edition of Indonesia International Challenge, he also reached final only to lose to the Korean veteran Lee Hyun-il by 5 sets, 10–11, 11–9, 11–5, 8–11, 3–11.

At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, he won 21–18, 20–22, 21–15 over Chou Tien-chen and took the badminton men's singles gold medal for Indonesia.[2]
Lee Zii Jia (born 29 March 1998) is a Malaysian badminton player. He was the men's singles gold medalist at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.
2018

In October 2018, Zii Jia reached the final of the Chinese Taipei Open by defeating the World No. 4 Men's Singles player, Chou Tien-chen in the semifinals. He defeated Riichi Takeshita in the final to win his first BWF World Tour title and second international title overall.[3][4] In doing so, he became the second Malaysian other than Lee Chong Wei to win a BWF top flight men's singles title since 2013.[citation needed] Zii Jia then reached the final of the Korea Masters but lost to Son Wan-ho.[5]
2019

Zii Jia started the 2019 season by competing in the Thailand Masters. He lost in the quarter finals to Brice Leverdez of France in straight games.[6] In the next tournaments, he also finished in the quarter finals in Malaysia Masters, Indonesia Masters, and German Open.[7] Zii Jia later lost in the early stage of Swiss, Malaysia, and Singapore Open's.[8][9] Zii Jia admitted that he had struggled to cope with financial difficulties, lack of progress and unfairness that affected his performance.[8]

In August, he finally managed to make it into the semi-finals in the Thailand Open, where he lost to Chou Tien-chen of Chinese Taipei. This was nonetheless an improvement to his being a quarter finalist in New Zealand and Indonesia Open's.[7][10] Zii Jia qualified to compete in World Championships in Basel, Switzerland, but lost to the World No. 1 Men's Single Player, and the eventual champion World Champion, Kento Momota of Japan in the quarter finals.[11] In November, he was forced to retire in the second round of the China Open, and decided to withdraw as well from the next tournament in Hong Kong, due suffering from food poisoning and fever.[12][13] Zii Jia reached world No. 11 in the BWF World ranking on November 12th. In December, he won the men's singles gold medal at the Southeast Asian Games,[14] and also helped the national men's team win the silver medal.[15]
2020

Lee opened the season by participating in Southeast Asian tours in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand Masters, with his best result being a semi-finalist in Malaysia, wherein he lost to the world number 1 Kento Momota in straight games.[16] In February, he alongside Malaysia men's team, won the silver medal at the Asia Team Championships,[17] during which time he was the national team captain[18] He won 4 out of 5 matches in the Asia Team Championships, losing in the final match against Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.

Later in March, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe, the 2020 German Open (badminton) was cancelled. Zii Jia's next tournament was the 2020 All England Open, which was also be his debut at the tournament because his ranking was previously too low to qualify.[19] He won against Jonatan Christie, who had won in four previous matches.[20] Zii Jia continued this win streak against Lu Guangzu and then the Olympic champion Chen Long.[21] In the semi final match, he lost to Viktor Axelsen. The match lasted for 73 minutes.[22] Further, Lee's performance at the All England Open raised his world ranking to no. 10 on 17 March 2020.[23]

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