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KUALA LUMPUR: Copenhagen has never been a happy hunting ground for Malaysians. The capital of Denmark hosted the World Badminton Championships previously in 1983, 1991 and 1999 and Malaysians returned home empty-handed on all three occasions. 

Former international shuttler Ong Ewe Hock remembers his foray there in 1999 where he suffered a humiliating first-round defeat to Vladislav Druzchenko of Russia. 

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