Badminton: Joy for Pearly-Thinaah, despair for Aaron-Wooi Yik


PETALING JAYA: It was a day of contrasting fortunes for national No. 1 doubles pairs Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah (pic) and Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik as the former made it into the semi-finals of the Indonesian Masters while the latter fell to a shock defeat.

Women’s doubles pair and world No. 6 Pearly-Thinaah gave a dominant display to dispatch off new Chinese pairing Li Wenmei-Liu Xuanxuan 21-10, 21-12 in 37 minutes at Istora Senayan in Jakarta yesterday.

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