KUALA LUMPUR: National men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia is on a roll. The unseeded 20-year-old, who had to come through the qualifying rounds, trounced Thailand’s Sitthikom Thammasin 21-13, 21-13 in the second round to storm into the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Masters badminton tournament in Jakarta on Thursday.
Two national mixed doubles pairs – sixth seed Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying and Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Jemie Lai – also moved into the last eight of the US$350,000 (RM1.449 million) tournament, according to the Badminton World Federation (BWF) website www.bwfworldtour.bwfbadminton.com.
Peng Soon-Liu Ying downed Ben Lane-Jessica Pugh of England 21-13, 21-10; while Soon Huat-Shevon pulled off a sensational 21-19, 21-23, 21-7 win over the seventh-seeded husband-wife partnership of Chris and Gabrielle Adcock of England.
Malaysia’s interest in the men and women’s doubles, however, is over.
Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi lost 13-21, 18-21 to second seeds Li Junhui-Liu Yuchen of China in the second round of men’s doubles.
In women’s doubles, Chow Mei Kuan-Lee Meng Yean lost 21-19, 21-23, 14-21 to eighth seeds Jongkolphan Kititharakul-Rawinda Prajongjai of Thailand while Vivian Hoo Kah Mun-Yap Cheng Wen went down 14-21, 13-21 to second seeds Misaki Matsutomo-Ayaka Takahashi of Japan. – Bernama
