High time for BAM to fix the ‘singles’ problem


India's RMV Gurusaidutt beat Malaysia's Chong Wei Feng in the quarter-finals of the men's singles event at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games recently. - GLENN GUAN/ The Star

GLASGOW: Malaysian badminton did extremely well to win three gold medals at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games but the defeat of shuttler Chong Wei Feng in the men’s singles quarter-finals was a bitter pill to swallow.

It wasn’t so much the way he went down 15-21, 21-8, 21-17 to R.M.V Gurusaidutt of India. It is more about the pain of seeing Malaysia’s 24-year domination of the men’s singles event in the Games being broken.

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