KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 — Professional men’s doubles pair Ong Yew Sin – Teo Ee Yi are Malaysia’s sole survivors on a day three other representatives failed to make the semi-finals of the 2023 Masters Japan in Kumamoto.
In today’s quarter-finals at the Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium, Ong – Teo needed 43 minutes to dispose of Taiwanese twins Lee Fang-Chih – Lee Fang-Jen 21 – 19, 21 – 16 and advance to their third semi-finals this season, after the 2023 Swiss Open and 2023 Taipei Open.
The eighth seeds will take on the seventh seeds, Li Yu Chen – Ou Xuan Yi, in the last four after the Chinese pair downed Japan’s Akira Koga – Taichi Saito 21 – 19, 21 – 13 in the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, top national women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan – M. Thinaah went down 13 – 21, 18 – 21 to home pair Rena Miyaura – Ayako Sakura.
Two national mixed doubles pairs — Chen Tang Jie – Toh Ee Wei and Tan Kian Meng – Lai Pei Jing — also crashed out in the quarter-finals of the Super 500 event.
Eighth seeds Chen – Toh lost for the third straight time to top seeds Zheng Si Wei – Huang Ya Qiong of China, going down 14 – 21, 14 – 21.
It was also the end of the road for Tan – Lai, who lost 15 – 21, 16 – 21 to second seeds Yuta Watanabe – Arisa Higashino of Japan.
— Bernama
