No more playing in the shadows for Pei Jing


Lai Pei Jing (front) training with her mixed doubles partner Chan Peng Soon at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow ahead of the Commonwealth Games beginning on Wednesday. - GLENN GUAN/ The Staer

GLASGOW: The Commonwealth Games seems like an ideal platform for mixed doubles shuttler Lai Pei Jing to step out of the shadows of Goh Liu Ying - for good.

And what better way to do it than to smash her way to the mixed doubles gold with Chan Peng Soon when the badminton competition starts at the Emirates Arena on Thursday.

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