PETALING JAYA: Aaron Chia rued a missed opportunity to help create history for Malaysia.
The national men’s doubles shuttler, along with Soh Wooi Yik, had a chance to give his team a point and keep the Sudirman Cup semi-final tie against South Korea alive but could not take it.The team were trailing 1-2 and needed Aaron-Wooi Yik to beat scratch pair Kim Won-ho-Na Sung-seung to have a shot at making the final but the former could not raise their game and went down 12-21, 11-21 in Suzhou yesterday.
Lee Zii Jia levelled it for Malaysia after easily overcoming Jeon Hyeok-jin 21-11, 21-9 in the men’s singles but K. Letshanaa, who was selected ahead of the country’s top women’s singles player Goh Jin Wei, fell 10-21, 13-21 to world No. 2 An Se-young to hand the advantage back to the South Koreans. “We tried to win but our opponents were really confident and played with less pressure as they are a scratch pairing.“Overall, our team gave everything but it was just not meant to be this time.”
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