Anthony Ginting vs Lee Zii Jia | 2020 Badminton Asia Team Championships

Anthony Ginting vs Lee Zii Jia | 2020 Badminton Asia Team Championships

Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (born 20 October 1996) is an Indonesian badminton player. He first rose when he won the bronze medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

The Cimahi-born shuttler of Karo descent was introduced to badminton by his father when he was in kindergarten. He is the fourth of five siblings. When he was young, he joined the PB SGS PLN, a badminton club in Bandung, West Java. He only started to take part in tournaments at around 9 years old, or two years after he was scouted. Ginting idolizes Taufik Hidayat, the 2004 Athens Olympic men's singles gold medallist who coincidentally came from the same badminton club.[3]

2013
Ginting participated at the Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold, Vietnam International Challenge, Maldives International Challenge, Malaysia International Challenge and Asia Junior Championships in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

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.

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 Word Campion, 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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