MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Spreading joy on and off the pitch at the Women's World Cup, Jamaica and Colombia will battle for a quarter-final place on Tuesday after partying with each other at a Sydney nightclub. The Caribbeans and South Americans have plenty in common, not least a love of music and dancing. Both teams have impressed with...
PETALING JAYA: Weng Hongyang of China avenged his defeat to H.S. Prannoy in the Malaysian Masters in May by overcoming the Indian in spectacular style to win the Australian Open in Sydney yesterday. Prannoy, 31, was just two points away from clinching his second Badminton World Federation (BWF) tour title when he led 19-14 in the...
PETALING JAYA: Accept the defeat, move on and use it as a motivation to work harder. This was the advice given by national men’s singles badminton coach Hendrawan to Ng Tze Yong after the latter crashed out in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. World No. 21 Tze Yong suffered a narrow 21-17, 24-26, 19-21 defeat to...
PETALING JAYA: Independent shuttler Lee Zii Jia proved that he is still the country’s No. 1 men’s singles shuttler after storming into the semi-finals of the Australian Open. Despite his struggles, the world No. 17 Zii Jia rose to the occasion to narrowly triumph 17-21, 26-24, 21-19 over his much-improved former national teammate Ng Tze Yong...
PETALING JAYA: Umar Osman ended his campaign in the World University Games by finishing seventh in the men's 400m final in Chengdu on Thursday (Aug 3). Umar, running in a difficult Lane 1, clocked a respectable 46.41s in a fast race that broke the 26-year-old championship record of 44.81s. Joao Coelho of Portugal and Reece Nathaniel Holder...
PETALING JAYA: Independent player Lee Zii Jia (pic) finally won his first match under new coach Wong Tat Meng when he beat compatriot Leong Jun Hao in the first round of the Australia Open in Sydney yesterday. Zii Jia, the world No. 17, did not start the way he wanted as he had to come from...
PETALING JAYA: Surprise, surprise! Datuk Misbun Sidek looks set to return as the national junior singles coaching director after the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) president Tan Sri Norza Zakaria offered him an opportunity to end his contract that runs until end of the year. But there’s a twist to the saga. Yesterday, Norza dropped a bombshell by...
PETALING JAYA: Umar Osman rewrote his national 400m record for the second time at the World University Games in Chengdu when he clocked 46.09s in the semi-finals on Wednesday (Aug 2). Umar utilised the opportunity of running in the favoured Lane 4 to smash his previous record of 46.33s he set on Tuesday (Aug 1) by...
PETALING JAYA: South Korean shuttler An Se-young is unstoppable right now. And that makes the women’s singles interesting and competitive but also adds immense pressure on all others in the fray to narrow the gap quickly, says Malaysia’s former All-England men’s singles champion Mohd Hafiz Hashim. Hafiz, who is now coaching India’s P.V. Sindhu, knows he has...
PETALING JAYA: Never take sides when you do not have a complete picture of the incident. This was the view expressed by former great Datuk James Selvaraj following the dismissal of Datuk Misbun Sidek from his position as the national junior singles coaching director. Even though Misbun has a contract that runs until the end of this...
