PETALING JAYA: Low Zi Yu-Genevie Lim kept Malaysia in the medal hunt at the World Junior Championships in Cairo after reaching the girls’ doubles semi-finals.
Zi Yu-Genevie needed just 22 minutes to beat Hong Kong’s Au-yeung Wing Chi-Chu Wing Chi 15-7, 15-7 in the quarter-finals at the Cairo International Stadium.
They will face China’s Shi Sichen-Xiang Yujin in the semi-finals on Friday (Oct 16).
The pair are Malaysia’s only semi-finalists and have already assured the country of at least a bronze medal after boys’ doubles second seeds Isyraf Hafizin Ibrahim-Ahmad Redzuan Zulwaqqarizal were knocked out.
Isyraf-Redzuan went down 15-7, 11-15, 9-15 to Japan’s Oku Mahiro-Masato Yamashiro in the quarter-finals.
For Redzuan, the defeat capped a frustrating day after he had also been eliminated in the mixed doubles with Zi Yu.
The top seeds went down 15-11, 15-17, 13-15 to South Korea’s Jeong Seong-been-Kim Min-chae in the third round.
