Tan Joe Hok

Tan Joe Hok
Personal information
Birth name Hendra Kartanegara
Country Indonesia
Born (1937-08-11) August 11, 1937
Bandung, West Java

Tan Joe Hok (Hendra Kartanegara, Chinese: 陳有福; pinyin: Chén Youfu) (born August 11, 1937) is an Indonesian badminton hero, who along with Ferry Sonneville and a cadre of fine doubles players set the foundation for an Indonesian badminton dynasty by dethroning then perennial Thomas Cup champion Malaysia in 1958.

Tan Joe Hok lived in Bandung until he finished high school. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from Baylor University, Texas, United States.

He was the first Indonesian to win the All England Open (1959) and the first Indonesian to win a gold medal in Asian Games (1962). He won both the U.S. Open and Canadian Open singles titles consecutively in 1959, and 1960. He has many other notable achievements in the badminton field, both as a player and a coach, most particularly, winning all but one of his singles matches for Indonesia's world champion Thomas Cup (men's international) teams of 1958, 1961, and 1964.

Personal

He married Goei Kiok Nio in 1965 and they have two children. Tan Joe Hok had difficulty establishing full citizenship in Indonesia because he could not obtain an SBKRI. He said "It wouldn't be hard for us to move overseas but we don't want to do that because we are Indonesians. Even if it was raining gold overseas, we will remain here, in the land where Indonesian blood has been spilled."[1]

Education

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References

  1. ↑ Kompas newspaper on 11 February 2004 (and excepted in the Foreword to Chinese in Indonesia by Max Lane


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