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- Rexy to retain the disappointing Zakry-Thien How partnership
- Kien Keat-Boon Heong aim to break losing jinx against Korean pair
- World Badminton Championships results
| Rexy to retain the disappointing Zakry-Thien How partnership Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:33 PM PDT WORLD BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS MOHD Zakry Abdul Latif (pic) and Hoon Thien How will continue playing as pair, for now. National coach Rexy Mainaky feels that he can still push them to qualify for next year's Olympic Games alhtough the duo fell short of expectations at the World Championships. On Tuesday, the duo blew a good chance to come good when they went down 24-26, 19-21 to 10th seeds Fang Chieh-min-Lee Sheng-mu of Taiwan. In the absence of Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan in their quarter, the Malaysians had a chance to go far. "Yes, I was disappointed with the way we the lost. "There were mistakes which should not have happened. They just did not want it as much as the coach, I guess," said Rexy. "But I have spoken to them and I know they want to make amends. They are comfortable with each other and I have decided to keep them together. "Their next mission is to qualify for the Olympic Games. We will continue to send them to international tournaments to win good qualifying points." There was a plan prior to the world meet to team up Thien Hoon with one of the back-up players under Tan Kim Her's guidance. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| Kien Keat-Boon Heong aim to break losing jinx against Korean pair Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:32 PM PDT WORLD BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS NATIONAL suttlers Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong will be out to get the monkey off their backs when they take on South Koreans Ko Sung-hyun-Yoo Yeon-seong in the quarter-finals of the men's doubles event in the World Badminton Championships today. Yesterday, fourth seeds Kien Keat-Boon Heong were slow off the starting block but found their rhythm quick enough to beat Taiwan's Chen Hung-ling-Lin Yu-lang 21-13, 21-14 in the third round. It was their fourth straight win against the Taiwanese pair. Today, they will take on Sung-hyun-Yeon-seong, whom they have never beaten before. The Koreans tamed their younger compatriots Cho Gun-woo Kwon Yi-goo 21-15, 21-17 in another third round match. Kien Keat said that they were ready to take down the Koreans for the first time. "It was a good win for us against the Taiwanese. I do not think we were in danger against them at any point during the match," said Kien Keat. The two pairs were tied at 6-6 in the opening game before the Malaysians pulled away for a win. In the second game, they traded points until 11-11 before Kien Keat-Boon Heong broke away. "It will be tougher against the Koreans tomorrow. We have lost to them four times before this, but we do not fear them. We have worked hard for the world meet and Boon Heong and I will be there to score a first victory and march into the semis," added Kien Keat. They Malaysians have lost to the Koreans three times last year at the Switzerland, China and Singapore Opens. This year, they were beaten in the BWF Super Series Masters Finals. Boon Heong said: "We played quite well today and hopefully, we will be able to raise the standard higher against the Koreans." At last year's world meet in Paris, Boon Heong-Kien Keat played beyond expectations when they ended a two-year losing streak against Korea's top-ranked pair Jung Jae-sung-Lee Yong-dae in the quarter-finals enroute to a runners-up finish. And they will be hoping to achieve a similiar breakthrough against the second-ranked Korean pair today. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| World Badminton Championships results Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:20 PM PDT Men's singles Second round: Boonsak Ponsana (Tha) bt Wong Choong Hann 21-13, 21-18; Derek Wong Zi Liang (Sin) bt Taufik Hidayat (Ina) 21-17, 21-14; Du Pengyu (Chn) bt Kazushi Yamada (Jpn) 21-12, 21-14. Third round: Lee Chong Wei (Mas) bt Park Sung-hwan (Kor) 21-10, 21-5; Lin Dan (Chn) bt Lee Hyun-il (Kor) 21-16, 21-13; Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (Den) bt Derek Wong Zi Liang (Sin) 21-16, 21-10; Peter-Gade Christensen (Den) bt Simon Santoso (Ina) 21-18, 14-21, 21-14; Sho Sasaki (Jpn) bt Du Pengyu (Chn) 10-21, 24-22, 21-10; Chen Jin (Chn) bt Ajay Jayaram (Ind) 18-21, 21-12, 21-11. Men's doubles Second round: Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen (Den) bt Adrian Liu-Derric Ng (Can) 21-5, 21-10; Ko Sung-hyun-Yoo Yeon-seong (Kor) bt Chris Adcock-Andrew Ellis (Eng) 18-21, 21-13, 21-13; Hirokatsu Hashimoto-Noriyasu Hirata (Jpn) bt Ruud Bosh-Koen Ridder (Ned) 21-14, 18-21, 21-12; Mads Conrad-Petersen-Jonas Rasmussen (Den) bt Alven Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan (Ina) 22-20, 13-21, 21-18; Cai Yun-Fu Haifeng (Chn) bt Naoki Kawamae-Shoji Sato (Jpn) 21-17, 15-21, 21-14; Jung Jae-sung-Lee Yong-dae (Kor) bt Hiroyuki Endo-Kenichi Hayakawa (Jpn) 21-14, 21-5; Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong (Mas) bt Chen Hung-ling-Lin Yu-lang (Tpe) 21-13, 21-14; Ko Sung-hyun-Yoo Yeon-seong (Kor) bt Cho Gun-woo-Kwon Yi-goo (Kor) 21-15, 21-17. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
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