Shun Yang puts on shoddy show against 16-year-old Finn


PETALING JAYA: It can’t get any worse than this – a Malaysian shuttler was beaten by a Finnish opponent.

That happened at the World Junior Championships in Kazan, Russia yesterday when the nation’s second highest ranked boys’ singles shuttler Lee Shun Yang went down 22-20,16-21,16-21 to Joakim Oldorff in the first round.

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