Liew’s back in form despite injury


Show must go on: Liew Daren is carrying a back injury picked up two weeks ago.

Independent men’s singles shuttler Liew Daren is not about to let a lower back injury stop him from another strong outing at the Perodua Malaysian Masters at the Celcom Axiata Arena here.The 32-year-old Daren, who sustained the injury two weeks ago, had no problems qualifying for the main draw yesterday as he saw off India’s Dey Subhankar and China’s Zhao Junpeng in 33 and 35 minutes respectively in the qualifying rounds.

“Physically, I’m quite okay but it was in the second match (against Zhao) that I began to feel some strain on my lower back but I managed to play through the pain, ” said Daren.

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