How lucky do you have to be to get noticed by your idol at a concert? Mandopop King Jay Chou, 45, recently performed four consecutive nights at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre as part of his Carnival World Tour. There was a downpour on the last night (April 21), leaving fans who were seated in the unsheltered VIP section...
PETALING JAYA: It was a dull day for Malaysia at the World Tour Finals in Hangzhou when men’s doubles Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik and mixed doubles Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei lost their opening matches on Wednesday (Dec 13). World No. 3 Aaron-Wooi Yik were beaten 16-21, 21-14, 18-21 by Takuro Hoki-Yugo Kobayashi of Japan in...
PETALING JAYA: Mixed doubles coach Nova Widianto has challenged top pair Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei to at least reach the last four of the World Tour Finals from Dec 13-17 in Hangzhou. Tang Jie-Ee Wei had made the cut for the prestigious season ending Finals for the first time after clinching the eighth and final...
SHUTTLER Cheah Liek Hou was back to his swaggering best as he stormed into the final of the men’s singles SU5 (upper body impairment) final in the Asian Para Games. Liek Hou claimed a dominant 21-7, 21-9 win over Taiwan’s Fang Jen-yu in the last four at the Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou yesterday. A day earlier, the...
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...
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...
22-year-old Supha Sangaworawong, better known as Est, is an idol in and out of the pool. The 19th Asian Games currently happening in Hangzhou, China has no lack of eye candy. Hey, even the policemen are capable of an steal hearts while simply on patrol. However, a certain athlete on the Thai swim team has been getting recognised at...
HANGZHOU: Squash delivered the third gold medal for Malaysia in the Hangzhou Asian Games after the women's team came from behind to beat Hong Kong 2-1 at HOC Squash Centre on Saturday (Sept 30). Rachel Arnold lost the first match 11-7, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 6-11 to Tong Tsz Wing. However, S. Sivasangari put Malaysia back in the...
Keiho Takahashi, whose dad is Iranian and mum, Japanese, is also an undergraduate at the prestigious Hosei University in Tokyo. At the 19th Asian Games currently happening in Hangzhou, the cheers at the volleyball courts have been deafening. And we suspect that part of the cheers were reserved for a certain good-looking spiker for the Japanese men’s volleyball...
