Revenge off the menu for Anthony Ginting at badminton world championships in Paris

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Indonesia’s former world No. 2 Anthony Ginting at the Karim Family Foundation Singapore Badminton Open in 2024.

PHOTO: BERITA HARIAN FILE

PARIS – Indonesia’s former world No. 2 Anthony Ginting told AFP he had come to terms with the shoulder injury which cost him a medal chance at the Paris Olympics as he returns to the French capital for the badminton world championships.

Ill fortune struck for the Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist ahead of the 2024 Games when he began to suffer discomfort in his playing shoulder in the build-up to the event.

Although the 28-year-old fought through the pain to compete at the Olympics, the injury required surgery which then forced Ginting to miss the majority of the 2025 season.

“The problem started just before the Olympics last year but I still played on,” Ginting said on Aug 23 after a training session in Paris where the world championships will take place from Aug 25 to 31.

“But at the start of the year, I needed to have surgery to fix it, so I ended up missing out for six months.”

Ginting revealed he continued to train and socialise every day with his teammates during his convalescence.

However, being unable to participate fully in sessions while he focussed on individual rehabilitation elsewhere in the training centre was a big challenge.

“It was hard because I was there with them while they prepared for competitions but I had to stay apart and work a lot on my own,” he said.

However, while Ginting was using this period to