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
