Badminton: Peng Soon-Liu Ying lift NZ Open crown

By Tan Ming Wai

Goh (left) and Chan with their medals. With them are their coach Chew Choong Eng.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian top mixed doubles pair Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying have won the New Zealand Open for their second title of the year.

The world No. 5 brilliantly came from behind to beat Indonesia's Praveen Jordan-Melati Daeva Oktavianti 14-21, 21-16, 29-27 in an epic final that lasted an hour and 25 minutes in Auckland on Sunday (May 5).

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