Malaysian girls not up to mark in world junior meet


KUALA LUMPUR: Unlike last year, it will be a quiet affair for Malaysia in the girls’ singles event in the World Junior Championships when they were wiped out in the second round.

All the four representatives – K. Letshanaa, Arena Satu Samin, Tan Zhing Yi and Myisha Mohd Khairul – found their more fancied opponents too hot to handle when they went down in straight games in Kazan, Russia, yesterday.

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