Firm as he can be


Not cool: Soh Wooi Yik (left) and Aaron Chia made an uncharacteristic second-round exit by losing to Japan’s Takuto Inoue-Yuki Kaneko at the World Championships in Basel last week. — Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR: Get your act together and stop the rot!

That’s national men’s doubles head coach Paulus Firman’s stern warning to his two under-performing pairs – world No. 13 Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik and world No. 24 Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi – after they flopped at the World Championships in Basel, Switzerland, last week.

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