Ode To Latitude
The SEA Games (3)

The women's team is warming up accompanied by Koh Toni, coach Wibowo women's singles coach, coach Hafiz women's doubles coach and assistant coach of each sector. The women's team will be the opening match this morning against Thailand. Annisa's face was twice as tense as the match against Vietnam. Last night, the women's team had agreed to field the main squad that yesterday played against Vietnam. The women's team looked tired, yesterday's game ended at night and they only had a little rest time they had not recovered 100%.

Annisa was anxious to see one by one players who, though lethargic, showed no signs of retreating. Annisa could not do much, if only yesterday they won the formation that was lowered remained unchanged.

“Everything gathered” Koh Toni said as he looked at the time listed on his digital clock, fifteen more minutes of the match starting.

“Today our opponent is Thailand, I understand friends must be tired because it has been taken down yesterday. Eliminate your burden, play loose Lose win it custom match, keep focus and do the best you can” said Koh Toni.

The feeling of the women's team was relieved, the burden of victory that they had to bear was reduced when they showed their best performance against the strongest women's team in the SEA Games.

Annisa advanced in the first match, against the world's top 4 women's singles rankings from Thailand. As captain, Annisa felt the responsibility was on her shoulders. He is focused on winning the first game so that the next team is motivated to add points. The long struggle began, although Annisa's fatigue did not stop him and his opponents have often met in individual matches and have a record of two wins from their six meetings. Annisa focuses on the opponent's weakness, stamina and defense. Annisa does everything in her power and technique to break through the opponent's defense. Jump shoot his flagship technique adds points. The cross feed that became the sole mainstay of Indonesia was executed well.

The men's team cheered in excitement not when the rubber game brought Indonesia one point ahead. Annisa almost cried her hard work brought a positive result withholding tears that almost spilled because today has not run out, the game is still running.

The next team to play against the world's third seed, the Thai number one women's doubles pair, one of the players in the mixed doubles. Through a fierce battle Thailand showed its existence turned into one another. The third match began, the sooner it ended than the prediction. Indonesia's second single lost to the African score, 9-21, 10-21 fatigue seems to make the women's singles unable to cover the field area of the match. The fourth match of the women's doubles again evokes the spirit of Indonesian supporters. Point by point continues to grow without being able to dammed the Thai women's doubles. The Indonesian women's doubles did not give Thailand a gap to add points and further enlarge the Indonesian women's doubles victory. Score two equally plastered on the main screen of the field. The last match was dominated by Thailand, as if avenging a double team defeat. Indonesian supporters shouted non-stop as the Indonesian single tried to prevent the ball from falling in the “in” area it seemed that Indonesia's single weakness was clearly read not only by the opponent but also the spectators present in the stadium. Singular Indonesia succumbed to the opponent in the last points. Indonesia must be satisfied with the score of the women's team 2-3, that night Annisa could not resist her feelings, anger and sadness rippled in his chest which he could only shed through the tears he had been holding back.

“Kak, we still have another match. If we stop here and brother gives up better not to come from the beginning” said one of his juniors.

Annisa thought for a moment, adjusted her breath and disposed of all her negative emotions and thoughts through the breath. Last year, he did not manage to bring Indonesia to the gold medal, and this year he does not want the old wounds repeated. Before actually retiring she wanted in the women's team tournament to be able to compete with the men's team to bring the gold medal together.

“Thank you to the friends who have competed today, tomorrow we will fight the Brunei Darussalam team. Junior team, we are both fighting for tomorrow's game. Do not be quickly satisfied and do not underestimate the opponent, keep your mind and stamina. Now we rest, do not forget to eat, pray and keep healthy” said Annisa let the women's team leave their meeting room.

The Indonesian men's double layer was overwhelmed by resisting attacks from the Philippines. Beating a strong team is the main goal of the Philippines, in order to prove that Indonesia's position can shift at any time because many countries have learned the advantages and disadvantages of the Indonesian style of play.

The men's team cemented its position as the only undefeated team. Indonesia's game statistics and points acquisition are in number one, regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's match, Indonesia still qualify for the semifinals.

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The women's team cheered as Annisa regained victory in the opening round. Although the coach told him to rest, Annisa remained on his feet, consistently contributing a single figure to Indonesia. Indonesia cheered the match closed with a perfect 5-0 victory as well as ushering Indonesia into the group runner-up and advanced to the semifinals with Thailand because Vietnam scored four points behind Indonesia.

The men's team cruised unhindered, having beaten Myanmar 5-0 and firmly established themselves as group leaders. All gathered in the arena prepared by the committee, the draw of the semi-final was re-voted. The men's team representatives are Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. The women's team representatives are Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for some reason drawing this time is very unique both teams bring representative sons and daughters from their respective countries. The result of the men's team draw will be against Singapore and the women's team against Malaysia. The chances of the men's team to the final are greater than the women's team.

No bored coach motivates each player, tomorrow the game will start at 13:00 Hanoi time which means the weather is in hot conditions, he said, in the morning they train and check with the doctor and therapist who participate as officials, making sure their condition remains fit until the match is over. Two women's singles cannot be included in the row of players who will be relegated due to calf and back injuries, so they will be rested while the men's singles Niko who became the backbone of the men's singles are not scheduled to go down in the semifinals with the intention of recovering conditions to be ready to fight if Indonesia qualify for the final.

The main squad of the princess team changed formation into one senior single and two primordial singles. Malaysia's formation as predicted will be the same as the men's team, three doubles and two singles who will play. This decision will be 50:50, their strength is a draw. Annisa assures the women's team that they will not lose, one more step towards the final. Think semi-finals, matches, and effort results will be directly proportional to effort.

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