Former Olympic [ Images ] champion Taufik Hidayat exited meekly from the Asian Games badminton tournament on Friday, dashing hopes for a repeat of the 2006 grudge match with bitter rival Lin Dan [ Images ].

Hidayat enraged the Chinese camp at the Doha Games by calling Lin "arrogant" and unpopular on the tour, then rubbed salt in the wounds by beating the Beijing [ Images ] Olympic champion in a tense final.

The Indonesian world number three failed to fire during his quarter-final match against South Korea's Park Sung-Hwan, and surrendered 21-15, 21-16, clearing Lin for a potential showdown with top-ranked Lee Chong Wei [ Images ] of Malaysia in the final.

"I didn't feel very good today. I had a bad game, I don't want to give any excuses for why I lost. I just lost," Hidayat said after the defeat.

"I don't feel anything right now," he added.

Lin was scheduled to play Vietnam's Nguyen Tien Minh in another quarter-final later on Friday, while Lee faces a test against world number five Chen Jin in a semi-final on Saturday.