KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian doubles pairs Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong and Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari-Ong Soon Hock scored significant wins on a day when world champions Cai Yun Fu Haifeng of China were knocked out of the US$1.2mil South Korea Open in Seoul yesterday.
Kien Keat-Boon Heong and Fairuzizuan-Soon Hock won their second round matches against China’s Hong Wei-Shen Ye and Indonesians Alven Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan respectively to assure Malaysia of a semi-final ticket.
The Malaysians will be up against each other in today’s quarter-finals.
On top: Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari-Ong Soon Hock(back) convincingly beat the eight seeds Alven Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan 21-18, 21-12 in the South Korea Open in Seoul yesterday. But, more importantly, Kien Keat-Boon Heong’s hard-fought 25-23, 11-21, 21-19 win over the gutsy Chinese youngsters in 55 minutes was sweet revenge.
Kien Keat-Boon Heong had lost to the Chinese pair in the opening round of the Malaysia Open last week and were blasted for their arrogance on the court.
Despite redeeming their battered pride yesterday, national doubles coach Rexy Mainaky was far from pleased.
“They are still missing one element in their game. They are still not enjoying their game to the fullest,” said Rexy via a telephone interview.
“They gave the Chinese pair a lot of room to dictate the pace.”
Indeed, the win certainly did not come easy for the Malaysians as they were under intense pressure – especially towards the end of the rubber game.
They were leading 19-17 but the Chinese fought bravely before going down 19-21.
“Anyway, it is good that we also have Fairuzizuan-Soon Hock in the quarter-finals. Unfortunately, they will be up against each other,” said Rexy.
For Fairuzizuan-Soon Hock, their convincing 21-18, 21-12 win over eighth seeds Alven Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan was a breakthrough.
It marked their first win over a seeded pair since teaming up last year and only their second quarter-final appearance in the Super Series after crashing out in the last eight of the France Open last year.
Fairuzizuan said: “It feels good to come this far. Soon Hock and I performed well to beat a seeded pair for the first time.”
Soon Hock added: “This breakthrough win will give us more confidence when we face our team-mates next.”
There were two major upsets yesterday, with Cai Yun-Haifeng and former world champions Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia being shown the exit.
Cai Yun-Haifeng could not stop the gallant run of Denmark’s on-form Mads Conrad-Petersen-Jonas Rasmussen and went down 18-21, 21-17, 13-21 while Markis-Hendra lost 18-21, 18-21 to South Korean newcomers Kim Ki-jung-Kim Sa-rang.
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Kien Keat-Boon Heong and Fairuzizuan-Soon Hock won their second round matches against China’s Hong Wei-Shen Ye and Indonesians Alven Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan respectively to assure Malaysia of a semi-final ticket.
The Malaysians will be up against each other in today’s quarter-finals.
On top: Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari-Ong Soon Hock(back) convincingly beat the eight seeds Alven Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan 21-18, 21-12 in the South Korea Open in Seoul yesterday. Kien Keat-Boon Heong had lost to the Chinese pair in the opening round of the Malaysia Open last week and were blasted for their arrogance on the court.
Despite redeeming their battered pride yesterday, national doubles coach Rexy Mainaky was far from pleased.
“They are still missing one element in their game. They are still not enjoying their game to the fullest,” said Rexy via a telephone interview.
“They gave the Chinese pair a lot of room to dictate the pace.”
Indeed, the win certainly did not come easy for the Malaysians as they were under intense pressure – especially towards the end of the rubber game.
They were leading 19-17 but the Chinese fought bravely before going down 19-21.
“Anyway, it is good that we also have Fairuzizuan-Soon Hock in the quarter-finals. Unfortunately, they will be up against each other,” said Rexy.
For Fairuzizuan-Soon Hock, their convincing 21-18, 21-12 win over eighth seeds Alven Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan was a breakthrough.
It marked their first win over a seeded pair since teaming up last year and only their second quarter-final appearance in the Super Series after crashing out in the last eight of the France Open last year.
Fairuzizuan said: “It feels good to come this far. Soon Hock and I performed well to beat a seeded pair for the first time.”
Soon Hock added: “This breakthrough win will give us more confidence when we face our team-mates next.”
There were two major upsets yesterday, with Cai Yun-Haifeng and former world champions Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia being shown the exit.
Cai Yun-Haifeng could not stop the gallant run of Denmark’s on-form Mads Conrad-Petersen-Jonas Rasmussen and went down 18-21, 21-17, 13-21 while Markis-Hendra lost 18-21, 18-21 to South Korean newcomers Kim Ki-jung-Kim Sa-rang.
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