KUALA LUMPUR – National men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik were shown the exit by China’s unseeded combination of He Ji Ting-Zhou Hao Dong in the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Masters badminton championship in Jakarta today.
2022 world champions Aaron-Wooi Yik continued to blow hot and cold en route to losing 17-21, 10-21 to the Chinese pair in 38 minutes at Istora Senayan, Jakarta.
The fourth-seeded Malaysians began the first game in style to take an 11-8 lead before suddenly losing their rhythm to succumb 17-21 and, in the second game, left themselves with a mountain to climb when they trailed the Chinese pair 4-12 before going on to lose 10-21.
World No. 21 Ji Ting-Hao Dong will face either compatriots Liu Ye Chen-Ou Xuan Yi or top-seeded Indonesians Fajar Alfian-Muhammad Rian Ardianto in the last four.
Aaron-Wooi Yik, who are ranked second in the world after winning the men’s doubles title in the Badminton World Federation World Championships last August, had crashed out in the second round of the Malaysia Open earlier this month before losing in the final of the India Open last week. – Bernama, January 27, 2023
