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Sabah shuttlers advance
Published on: Thursday, November 10, 2016
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Kota Kinabalu: Tan Wee Gieen, younger brother of Olympic silver medallist Tan Wee Kiong, and women doubles player Amelia Alicia Anscelly won their respective matches in the Celcom Axiata Malaysia International Challenge Badminton Championship 2016 at the Kota Kinabalu Sports Complex on Wednesday.The 21-year-old Tan, who was given a top billing in the men's doubles with Tan Chee Team, almost made an early exit when they were pushed to the limit by unseeded Chinese Taipei pair of Liu Wei Chen and Tseng Min Hao before winning in three tough sets 17-21, 21-14, 22-20 to book their place in the next round against former Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) player Mohd Razif Abdul Latif and Mohd Hafizi Hashim.

Tan had earlier in the morning made it to the second round of the mixed doubles with Peck Yen Wei after defeating China's Shi Longfei and Tang Pinyang 11-21, 21-13, 21-11.

Alicia on the other hand, cruised to the second round with new partner Teo Mei Xing as her usual partner Soong Fei Cho is still recovering from her surgery.

The new pairing won their match with an easy 21-14, 21-14 victory over Chinese Taipei's Chen Yu Pei and Chia Wei Liang, and their next opponents are fellow Malaysians Goh Yea Ching and Lim Chiew Sien.

Meanwhile, the tournament top seeds in both men and women singles all won their matches with Vietnamese veteran player Nguyen Tien Minh coming from a set down to beat Japanese Yusuke Onodera 16-21, 21-18, 21-17 to advance to the third round while Malaysia's Tee Jing Yi, seeded first in the women singles brushed aside qualifier Lin Sih Yun from Chinese Taipei 21-14, 21-11 in the opening round.

There was one major upset at press time in the women singles when second seed Dinar Dyah from Indonesia was ousted by Chisato Hoshi of Japan in straight sets 21-12, 21-9.




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