After being caught on video alluding to Malaysia’s national badminton women’s doubles team as “black and white,” Indonesian coach Eng Hian has apologised to Pearly Tan and M. Thinaah.
He claimed that he didn’t mean for his utterance to insult the pair.
“I apologise to M. Thinaah and Pearly Tan. I didn’t mean to disrespect the Malaysian players. Once again, I apologise for my words from the bottom of my heart,“ he said in a video that was uploaded to the Rubber Game Indonesia Twitter account Friday night.
Permintaan maaf Coach Eng Hian terkait penggunaan sebutan ‘hitam’ dan ‘putih’ saat Ana/Tiwi melawan Pearly/Thinaah di R16 #FrenchOpen2022 kemarin. pic.twitter.com/cepEkwbkci
— Rubber Game (@rubbergameid) October 28, 2022
In a follow-up tweet under the same Twitter thread, Rubber Game Indonesia also made a public statement addressing the matter.
“We need to look at this issue from multiple…