Taxing meets are vexing for Zii Jia


Stretched: Lee Zii Jia may have to play 11 tournaments in 16 weeks.

PETALING JAYA: The World Tour season is set to resume in three months but top national shuttler Lee Zii Jia is not about to get too excited.

Instead, the world No. 10 has other concerns, one of them being the scary thought of having to play a whopping 11 tournaments in 16 weeks in the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) jam-packed revamped schedule which starts in August.

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