Top seeds Peng Soon-Liu Ying tumble out of q-finals


All is not lost: Peng Soon-Liu Ying can make amends at the All-England from March 17-21.

PETALING JAYA: Mixed doubles pair Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying have put themselves in a bind in their pursuit of an Olympic berth after they were bundled out in the quarter-finals of the Swiss Open.

The 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallists became the first top seeds to get knocked out in Basel after losing 21-14,19-21,15-21 to Denmark’s Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje on Friday.

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