Day: July 31, 2024

PARIS,, Malaysian professional men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia easily cleared his Paris 2024 Olympics group stage to advance to the knockout phase as expected at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena today. The 2021 All England champion beat Spain’s world number 62 Pablo Abian, 21-10, 21-13 after 34 minutes in the Group G match to advance to the round of 16. Throughout the match, Zii Jia faced little trouble from the 39-year-old Spaniard, who is competing in his fifth Olympics since the Beijing 2008 edition. Zii Jia, the world number seven, began his campaign with a 21-14, 21-12 win

PARIS, The temperature, as well as the competition, began rising on the fourth day of the 2024 Olympic Games, with the badminton team continuing to showcase impressive performances, advancing to the next round. National women’s doubles pair, Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah, maintained their good momentum to create another upset, this time a 21-18, 21-9 victory over the world’s ninth-ranked pair, Apriyani Rahayu-Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti, to reach the quarter-finals. This makes them only the second Malaysian women’s doubles pair in Olympic history to compete in the quarter-finals, following Vivian Hoo-Woon Khe Wei at the Rio 2016 edition. Meanwhile, it was a

PARIS, National women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah are set to face reigning bronze medallists Kim So Yeong-Kong Hee Yong of South Korea in the Paris 2024 Olympics quarter-finals on Thursday. The draw for the knock-out stage was held after the completion of group fixtures at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena here, tonight. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, So Yeong-Hee Yong clinched bronze after beating compatriots Lee So Hee-Shin Seung Chan in the third-place playoff. In their only previous meeting against Pearly-Thinaah at the 2021 World Tour Finals group stage, the Koreans triumphed with a 14-21 14-21 victory. If

SEPANG,, Despite ending his challenge at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with an uninspiring result, it did not break the spirit of national shooter Johnathan Wong to yearn competing at the games in the Los Angeles 2028 edition. The 31-year-old shooter, who is making his second appearance at the quadrennial event, said he will try to improve his performance by producing more consistent results every time he participates in domestic and foreign tournaments. “I will still be competing if given the opportunity and I will be all out again to qualify for LA (Los Angeles 2028). Now the only thing

PARIS,, Malaysian professional women’s singles shuttler Goh Jin Wei challenge came to an early end at the 2024 Paris Olympics, after losing in her second match of Group H today. The 24-year-old had to concede defeat in a rubber set battle 17-21, 22-20, 21-23 to world number 17 Kim Ga Eun, following a 65-minute fight at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena here. Jin Wei, who recovered from losing the first set, managed to put up a strong fight to take the second set, 22-20 but narrowly lost the third set, 21-23 to the higher-ranked Korean player. She began her