PETALING JAYA: Men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik weren’t so hot in the Asian Games, bowing out in the semi-finals. Now, it’s about to get really cold for them as they move to freezing Vantaa in search of a first world tour title at the Arctic Open from today. Winter is around the corner in Finland...
PETALING JAYA: United States have done better than Malaysia in the world junior championships Yes, you heard that right as the nation known more for their American football, baseball and athletics stole the show at the home tournament when Francesca Corbett-Allison Lee went down fighting 21-12, 13-21, 15-21 to Japan’s Maya Tagauchi-Aya Tamaki in the girls’...
PETALING JAYA: The pain of losing in the first round to Chinese nemesis Chen Yufei in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta was fresh in An Se-young’s memory and the South Korean was finally able to exact her revenge in warrior like fashion in Hangzhou. Se-young was only 16 while Yufei, the 2016 world junior champion,...
PETALING JAYA: Shuttlers Bryan Goonting-Aaron Tai were only paired up two months ago but they have proven to be the stars in the making by winning a bronze medal at the World Junior Championships. Bryan-Aaron went down fighting 18-21, 21-15, 14-21 to Taiwan’s Asian Junior bronze medallists Lai Po-yu-Tsai Fu-cheng in the last four in Spokane,...
SHUTTLERS Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah have to improve on their strength and stamina to consistently match the world’s top pairs in the women’s doubles. This was national coaching director Rexy Mainaky’s assessment after the duo went down 21-15, 11-21, 7-21 to South Korea’s world No. 2 Baek Ha-na-Lee So-hee in the quarter-finals of the Asian Games in...
FORMER doubles ace Tan Boon Heong knows how to inspire a dejected Lee Zii Jia. World No. 16 Zii Jia was left frustrated after squandering two match points before going down 16-21, 23-21, 20-22 to H.S. Prannoy of India in the men’s singles quarter-finals in the Hangzhou Asian Games on Thursday. “It was a very exciting men’s...
HANGZHOU: It's game over for Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik as their campaign in the Asian Games badminton competition ended with a 17-21, 12-21 defeat to India's world No. 3 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty in the men's doubles semi-finals on Friday (Oct 6). The hard smashing Indian pair took the first game 21-17 and continued their relentless assault...
FOR once, Malaysia have done better than their archrivals Indonesia in badminton. While Malaysia were assured of a medal with Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik reaching the men’s doubles semi-finals on Thursday, Indonesia suffered their worst ever showing in the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, by firing blanks. It’s the first time in history that they have failed...
MALAYSIAN shuttlers will be out to avoid a Thai wipeout in the early rounds of the Asian Games. Almost all the representatives - Ng Tze Yong, Lee Zii Jia (men’s singles), Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik (men’s doubles), Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah (women’s doubles) and Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie (mixed doubles) will be facing opponents from Thailand...
THEY have a proven record in major events and this will still make men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik as Malaysia’s best bets for a medal in the Asian Games although they have a testing draw in the individual events starting today at the Binjiang Gymnasium today. Aaron-Wooi Yik, the world No. 5, will play...
