Three Malaysian Doubles Pairs Emerge Champions At AIBC

KOTA KINABALU (Sabah, Malaysia), Nov 14 (Bernama) -- Three Malaysian doubles pairs emerged champions at the finals of the Axiata Celcom International Badminton Championship (AIBC) here Sunday. However, national men and women's singles players R. Satheishtharan and Ho Yen Mei, who also played at the finals, lost to their opponents. The national squad's victories started with the national mixed doubles pair of Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie who beat the Taiwanese pair of Yang Po-Hsuan, Hao Yun Wen in straight sets 21-13, 21-17 in 25 minutes. Meanwhile, the men's doubles pair of Chooi Kah Ming-Low Juan Shen trounced their opponents, Lu Ching Yao-Yang Po Han, also from Taiwan, in straight sets 21-9 and 21-13, in 30 minutes. The national women's doubles pair of Chow Mei Kuan-Lee Meng Yean beat China's Jiang Binbin-Tang Pingyang in a hard-fought 21-17, 17-21, 21-15. The national women's singles player, Yen Mei, who is ranked 57th in the world, lost 17-21 and 11-21 to Sayaka Takahashi of Japan. Suffering similar fate was national men's singles player, Satheishtharan who lost 21-9, 21-16, 21-12 to Panji Ahmad Maulana of Indonesia. --BERNAMA