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Back to winning ways: Malaysia’s Goh V Shem (back) andTan Wee Kiong won the men’s doubles title at the Thailand Masters to end a two-year drought yesterday.

PETALING JAYA: Goh V Shem-Tan Wee Kiong and Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying could not have asked for a more perfect start to their professional careers.

Declaring “independence” from the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) seemed to have done the trick for them as the Rio Olympics silver medal-winning quartet returned to winning ways at the season-opening Thailand Masters in Bangkok yesterday.