Not good enough: Chan Peng Soon (right) and Goh Liu Ying go down to Japan’s Yuta Watanabe-Arisa Higashino 9-21, 18-21 in the final Group B match of the World Tour Finals in Guangzhou on Thursday.
PETALING JAYA: National mixed doubles shuttlers Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying bid farewell to 2018 on a dismal note when they failed to reach the semi-finals at the World Tour Finals in Guangzhou, China.
Hopes were high on the Malaysian No. 1 pair to hit a rich vein of form in the lucrative US$1.5mil (RM6.24mil) season-finale tournament yesterday but their slow start in their last Group B match against Japanese pair Yuta Watanabe-Arisa Higashino proved costly as they were defeated 9-21, 18-21.
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