PETALING JAYA: Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying have ended Malaysia’s 62-year wait. They have become the first Malaysian mixed doubles pair to reach the final of the prestigious All-England badminton championships since 1955.
The sixth-seeded Peng Soon-Liu Ying ended the gallant run of Yuta Watanabe-Arisa Higashino of Japan with a superb 21-17, 21-15 win in just 39 minutes in the semi-finals at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham yesterday.
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