Early exit: Ong Yew Sin (right) and Teo Ee Yi lost 18-21, 18-21 to defending champions Bagas Malauna-Shohibul Fikri of Indonesia in the second round.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s interest in the All-England men’s doubles came to an end when Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi fell to defending champions Bagas Malauna-Shohibul Fikri of Indonesia in the second round in Birmingham yesterday.
Independent pair Yew Sin-Ee Yi led in both games but allowed Bagas-Shohibul to make a comeback and secure a 21-18, 21-18 win in 44 minutes.
The Malaysians, ranked world No. 8, led 12-6 and also 18-15 in the second game but could not force the decider and allowed Bagas-Shohibul to advance to the last eight.
In the mixed doubles, Tan Kian Meng-Lai Pei Jing went down fighting to Yuki Kaneko-Misaki Matsutomo of Japan as they failed to advance to the last eight.
Kian Meng-Pei Jing led 19-16 only to allow Yuki-Matsutomoto secure five points in a row for a 21-12, 11-21, 21-19 win.
On Wednesday, another independent pair Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie were shown the exit in the first round when they lost 21-10, 21-14 Seo Seung-jae-Chae Yu-jung of South Korea.
In the men’s singles, veteran Liew Daren crashed out in the men’s singles first round when Indonesian Chico Aura got the better of him with a 21-9, 21-16.
“I don’t have any injuries but I lost on speed and power. My opponent (Chico) is much younger and that is probably another factor,” said the 35-year-old Daren.
Meanwhile, former world junior champion Li Shifeng of China outplayed compatriot Zhao Junpeng 21-19, 21-17 to book his quarter-final berth yesterday.
The second round witnessed a major upset when India’s Treesa Jolly-Gayathri Gopichand stunned Japan’s Sayaka Hirota-Yuki Fukishima 21-14, 24-22 to storm into the quarter-finals.
RESULTS
(Malaysians unless stated)
FIRST ROUND
MEN’S SINGLES: Kento Momota (Jpn) bt Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Tha) 23-21, 21-15; Kodai Naraoka (Jpn) bt Lu Guangzu (Chn) 11-7 rtd; Shi Yuqi (Chn) bt Kanta Tsuneyama (Jpn) 21-16, 21-11; K. Srikanth (Ind) bt Thoma Junior Popov (Fra) 19-21, 21-14, 21-5; Chico Aura (Ina) bt Liew Daren 21-9, 21-16; Li Shefeng (Chn) bt Angus Ng Ka Long (HK) 21-12, 8-1 rtd; Weng Hongyang (Chn) bt Jonatan Christie (Ina) 21-6, 21-11; Kenta Nishimoto (Jpn) bt Brian Yang (Can) 21-16, 21-14.
MEN’S DOUBLES: Leo Rolly-Daniel Marthin (Ina) bt Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik 21-18, 14-21, 21-13; Lu Yuchen-Ou Xuanyi (Chn) bt Ben Lane-Sean Vendy (Eng) 21-18, 17-21, 21-16; Lucas-Ronan Labar (Fra) bt Corvee-Ruben Jille-Ties van der Lecq (Ned) 21-16, 21-15; Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra Setiawan (Ina) bt Pramudya Kusumawardana-Yeremia Rambitan (Ina) 25-23, 21-18; Jeppe Bay-Lasse Moelhode (Den) bt Akira Koga-Tachi Saito (Jpn) 18-21, 23-21, 24-22; Ren Xiangyu-Tan Qiang (Chn) bt M.R. Arjun-Druv Kapila (Ind) 21-16, 21-15.
WOMEN’S SINGLES: Tai Szu Ying (Tpe) bt Kim Ga-eun (Kor) 21-10, 21-12; Akane Yamaguchi (Jpn) bt Mia Blichfeldt (Den) 21-9, 21-10; Carolina Marin (Spa) bt Kirsty Gilmour (Sco) 21-19, 21-17; Busanan Ongbumrungphan (Tha) bt Aya Ohori (Jpn) 21-15, 21-15; Pai Yu Po (HK) bt Line Christopherson (Den) 17-21, 21-16, 21-17; He Bingjiao (Chn) bt Iris Wang (US) 17-21, 21-17, 21-6; Zhang Beiwen (US) bt Supanida Katethong (Tha) 21-17, 21-14; An Se-young (Kor) bt Wen Chi-hsu (Tpe) 21-10, 21-12.
WOMEN’S DOUBLES: Baek Ha-na-Lee So-hee (Kor) bt Ashwini Bhat-Shikha Gautham (Ind) 21-9, 21-8; Yuki Fukushima-Sayaka Hirota (Jpn) bt Julie Macpherson-Ciara Torrance (Sco) 21-10, 11-3 rtd; Li Wenmei-Liu Xuanxuan bt Ng Tsz Yau-Tsang Hiu Yan (HK) 21-13, 21-14; Satwiksairaj Rankyreddy-Chirag Shetty (Ind) bt Krishna Prasad-Vishnuvardhan Gaud (Ind) 21-13, 21-13; Nami Matsuyama-Chiharu Chida (Jpn) bt Catherine Choi-Josephine Wu (Can) 21-18, 21-7; Apriani Rahayu-Siti Fadia Ramdhanti (Ina) bt Jacqueline Lima-Samia Lima (Bra) 21-12, 21-14.
l MIXED DOUBLES: Yuta Watanabe-Arisa Higashino (Jpn) bt Tang Chun Man-Tse Ying Suet (HK) 21-17, 21-17; Kim Won-ho-Jeong Na-eun (Kor) bt Gregory Mairs-Jenny Moore (Eng) 15-21, 21-9, 21-19; Seo Seung-jae-Chae Yu-jung (Kor) bt Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie 21-10, 21-14; Dechapol Puavaranukroh-Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Tha) bt Mathias Christiansen-Alxandra Boje (Den) 21-12, 22-20; Supak Jomkoh-Supissara Paewsampran (Tha) bt Terry Hee-Jessica Tan (Sin) 21-11, 21-19; Zachariah Josiahno-Hediana Juliemarbela (Ina) bt Mark Lamsfuss-Isabel Lohau (Ger) 21-17, 21-18; Robin Tabeling-Selina Piek (Ned) bt Adam Hall- Julie Macpherson (Sco) 21-16, 21-14; Praveen Jordan-Melati Daeva (Ina) bt Dejan Ferdinansyah-Gloria Emanuelle (Ina) 19-21, 21-17, 21-18; Ye Hong-wei-Lee Chia-hsin (Tpe) bt Feng Yanzhe-Huang Dongping (Chn) 21-15, 21-16.
SECOND ROUND
MEN’S SINGLES: Li Shefeng (Chn) bt Zhao Junpeng (Chn) 21-19, 21-17;
l MEN’S DOUBLES: Bagas Maulana-Shohibul Fikri (Ina) bt Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi 21-18, 21-18; Mayu Matsutomo-Wakana Nagahara (Jpn) bt Chloe Birch-Lauren Smith (Eng) 21-9, 21-10;
l WOMEN’S SINGLES: Akane Yamaguchi (Jpn) bt Yvonne Li (Ger) 21-13, 21-17; Carolina Marin (Spa) bt Zhang Beiwen (US) 21-13, 21-18; Wang Zhiyi (Chn) bt Han Yue (Chn) 21-14, 21-16.
l WOMEN’S DOUBLES: Apriani Rahayu-Siti Fadia Ramdhanti (Ina) bt Supissara Paewsampran-Puttita Supajirakul (Tha) 21-16, 21-19; Treesa Jolly-Gayathri Gopichand (Ind) bt Yuki Fukushima-Sayaka Hirota (Jpn) 21-14, 24-22.
l MIXED DOUBLES: Yuki Kaneko-Misaki Matsutomo (Jpn) bt Tan Kian Meng-Lai Pei Jing 21-12, 11-21, 21-19; Zheng Siwei-Huang Yaqiong (Chn) bt Lee Chun Hei-Ng Tsz Yau (HK) 20-22, 21-14, 21-18; Kyohei Yamashita-Naru Shinoya (Jpn) bt Ye Hong-wei-Lee Chia-hsin (Tpe) 21-16, 21-12.
