PETALING JAYA: Rexy Mainaky wants more from Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah at the World Championships in Copenhagen from Aug 21-27. So far, the national women’s doubles pair have not managed to build on their brilliant run to the final of the Malaysian Masters at Axiata Arena in May. World No. 11 Pearly-Thinaah had to pull out of the...
PETALING JAYA: Rexy Mainaky wants more from Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah at the World Championships in Copenhagen from Aug 21-27. So far, the national women’s doubles pair have not managed to build on their brilliant run to the final of the Malaysian Masters at Axiata Arena in May. World No. 11 Pearly-Thinaah had to pull out of the...
PETALING JAYA: Shuttler Goh Jin Wei has the best training arrangement going into the World Championships as she has been sparring with different players from different countries, including Taiwan’s top men singles shuttler Chou Tien-chen. And hopefully, it will help her in a big way to lift the gloom in her badminton career. The 23-year-old Jin Wei...
PETALING JAYA: Men doubles shuttlers Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun are praying that their Malaysian Masters form will resurface so that they can turn their World Championships debut in Copenhagen into a memorable outing. Wei Chong-Kai Wun pulled off their careers’ best performance in the home meet in May. They had beaten top Denmark pair Kim Astrup-Anders...
PETALING JAYA: National singles coach Hendrawan’s confidence in Ng Tze Yong is growing by the day. So don’t be surprised if the 23-year-old justifies his coach’s faith in him by serving up pleasant surprises in his second World Championships campaign from Aug 21-27 in Copenhagen, Denmark. A wiser Tze Yong will step into unknown territory in the...
PETALING JAYA: Men’s singles Lee Zii Jia (pic) has just started taking baby steps under new coach Wong Tat Meng in resurrecting his career but he has been handed the worst possible draw for the World Championships from Aug 21-27 in Copenhagen. In the draw released by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) yesterday, the unseeded Zii...
PETALING JAYA: The national junior shuttlers received some much needed luck after being handed a favourable draw in the group stage of the mixed team event at the World Junior Championships in the United States from Sept 25-30. The junior team led by men’s singles player Eogene Ewe had come under fire recently for their disappointing...
PETALING JAYA: Bring it on! Teoh Mei Xing is ready to embrace the challenge of playing in both the women’s and mixed doubles. The national shuttler is set to take on double duty after her women’s doubles partner Anna Cheong recovered from a long-term injury. Mei Xing had combined with Hoo Pang Ron in the mixed doubles when...
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...
