Taufik Out!

Indonesia hopes his degree in men’s singles number finally ended, after the only vice Taufik Hidayat gave up in the hands of Peter Gade in the quarterfinals round, Saturday (13/3/2010) morning pm.

In the action held at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, Taufik is seeded fourth to receive the benefits of the Danish opponent through three sets 22-20, 20-22 and 20-22 that lasted one hour 21 minutes.

In the first set, Taufik could actually get the benefits. At the beginning of the set, Taufik was behind it before it finally closed the set with number 22-20. Taufik fortunes changed at the next two sets,

Occurred in the second set numbers chase between Taufik and Gade to the same score at 20-20 after a strong Taufik had missed the previous 20-18. But Gade close the set with 22-20.

So even in the third set or a set of determining, which Taufik had won 11-7 and 16-14. But it’s unfortunate for  Taufik 20-20 score at the time made Gade won 22-20.

Gade in the semi-finals of the fifth seed will wait between the winner of the top party Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia) and non-winning players Shon Wan Ho of South Korea.

Meanwhile chance of Indonesia won the title of this British land only based on Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan and Nova Widianto / Liliana Natsir.