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    Taufik Hidayat is a retired Indonesian badminton player who won Olympic gold in men's singles in 2004 and world championships gold in 2005. He also won the Indonesian Open six times and Asian Games gold twice. Hidayat was known for his powerful backhand and forehand smashes as well as his deceptive net play, though he was sometimes criticized for a lack of fitness and impatience with crowds. After retiring, he opened the Taufik Hidayat Arena badminton training center in Jakarta.

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    Taufik Hidayat is a retired Indonesian badminton player who won Olympic gold in men's singles in 2004 and world championships gold in 2005. He also won the Indonesian Open six times and Asian Games gold twice. Hidayat was known for his powerful backhand and forehand smashes as well as his deceptive net play, though he was sometimes criticized for a lack of fitness and impatience with crowds. After retiring, he opened the Taufik Hidayat Arena badminton training center in Jakarta.

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    Taufik Hidayat is a retired Indonesian badminton player who won Olympic gold in men's singles in 2004 and world championships gold in 2005. He also won the Indonesian Open six times and Asian Games gold twice. Hidayat was known for his powerful backhand and forehand smashes as well as his deceptive net play, though he was sometimes criticized for a lack of fitness and impatience with crowds. After retiring, he opened the Taufik Hidayat Arena badminton training center in Jakarta.

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    Muhammad Didik Prayitno

    XI TITL-2 / 24
    Taufik Hidayat (born 10 August 1981 in
    Bandung, West Java) is a retired Indonesian
    badminton player. He is a former World and
    Olympic champion in men's singles. He has also
    won the Indonesian Open six times (1999, 2000,
    2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006)

    When he was young, he joined the SGS


    Club, a badminton club in Bandung, where he
    trained under Iie Sumirat.

    Hidayat won the men's singles competition in badminton at the 2004


    Summer Olympics. In August 2005, he won the men's singles competition at the
    IBF World Championships. He also won the gold medal at the Asian Games twice,
    at Busan in 2002 and Doha in 2006.

    Popular media has at times focused on the perceived rivalry between


    Hidayat and Chinese player Lin Dan, referring to the two as "arch rivals".

    In November 2012, Hidayat built a badminton training center named Taufik


    Hidayat Arena (THA), located at Ciracas, East Jakarta. The Center is owned and
    named after himself. THA is structured based on true passion, forms of struggle,
    and desire of a former of World and Olympic Champion, Taufik Hidayat.

    He married the daughter of Agum Gumelar, Ami Gumelar, on 4 February


    2006. They had a daughter in early August 2008, named Natarina Alika Hidayat.
    She was born shortly before he had to leave for the World Championships

    Hidayat's main qualities are his backhand (as he is perhaps most famous for
    his backhand smash, revered for its unusually high generation of power), forehand
    jump smash, drop shot (reverse slice in particular), smooth footwork and deceiving
    net play. Hidayat's forehand jump smash in the 2006 world championships is
    currently the fastest smash recorded in single's competition: he recorded a
    305 km/h in a match against Ng Wei.

    This overwhelming power on both his forehand and backhand, combined


    with his tenacity at the net and scope for deceptive shots, provided him with an
    extremely diverse weaponry on court, making him one of the most difficult players
    to face on the open circuit. Criticisms are aimed in his lack of fitness, impatience
    with loud crowds and his propensity to return a net shot with another net shot, even
    though his opponent is dangerously close to the net

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