Don’t count Hee out


Mak Hee Chun (left) and his doubles partner Chow Pak Chuu hope to revive their career in badminton. - IZRAFFIQ ALIAS/ The Star

SUBANG JAYA: Former world junior champion Mak Hee Chun was down in the doldrums after being dropped from the Badminton Association of Malaysia’s (BAM) set-up in September 2012.

But after a long hiatus, the 23-year-old Hee Chun, who won the world junior boys’ doubles title with Teo Kok Siang in 2008, is now back to carve a name for himself once more as an independent shuttler.

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