(BRIEF CAPTION) Malaysia mixed double pair Tan Kian Meng (left) and Li Pei Jing defeated Sonoda Keigo and Fukuman Naoko of Japan during the quarter-final round of the Malaysia Master badminton tournament at SPICE Arena in Penang .Star pic by: ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star / 22 January 2016.
PETALING JAYA: Mixed doubles shuttler Tan Kian Meng is delighted to be going to the Olympics – albeit as a sparring partner.
The 22-year-old Kian Meng and Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin, the national No. 2 men’s singles player, have been picked by the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) as the team’s sparring partners in Rio de Janeiro from Aug 5-21.
