KUALA LUMPUR: It’s Germany’s loss and a blessing for Malaysia following Juliane Schenk’s (pic) shock decision to skip the World Badmin-ton Championships in Guangzhou from Aug 5-11.
The world No. 4 women’s singles shuttler Schenk, one of the few players to have beaten all the top players from China, showed up in Malaysia to take up a new role – as a training partner for World Championships-bound Sonia Cheah and Tee Jing Yi. She will also join Sonia and Jing Yi in Hong Kong when the national team begin their centralised training on July 25.