Aaron Chia-Wooi Yik cruise into Swiss Open semifinals
Aaron-Wooi Yik, who are also the second seeds of the championship, needed just 33 minutes to beat the German pair of Mark Lamsfuss-Marvin Seidel 21-11, 21-13 in the quarter-finals.
They now continue the hunt for...
The national men's doubles of Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik continued their excellent run when they easily advanced to the semi-finals of the 2022 Swiss Open Championship in Basel, Switzerland, last night.
Aaron-Wooi Yik, who are also the second seeds of the championship, needed just 33 minutes to beat the German pair of Mark Lamsfuss-Marvin Seidel 21-11, 21-13 in the quarter-finals.
They now continue the hunt for the first championship in their international career.
In the first set, Aaron-Wooi Yik started brilliantly when they reeled off point after point to tame the seventh seeds of the championship.
Moving on to the second set, the same script repeated itself as Lamsfuss-Seidel continued to make mistakes at the net and the opportunity was not wasted by the Malaysians who romped home to victory.
The national duo who were formed in 2017 has never won a title with their best achievement being runners-up at the SaarLorLux Open 2018, 2019 All England and 2020 Thailand Open.
Aaron-Wooi Yik are expected to face either compatriots Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi or Indonesians Fajar Alfian-Muhammad Rian Ardianto who meet in another quarterfinal encounter.
Meanwhile, ambitious Malaysian women's singles player S Kisona met with another shock in the quarterfinals against Thailand’s Supanida Katethong.
Kisona, who stormed past former world number one Saina Nehwal of India in the second round on Thursday, however, lost tamely 11-21, 12-21 to Supanida in 39 minutes of action.
Meanwhile, the same fate befell the national women's pair of Anna Cheong-Teoh Mei Xing when they lost 18-21, 18-21 to Germany’s Linda Efler-Isabel Lohau.
- Bernama
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