PETALING JAYA: Shuttler Low Zi Yu is just one win away from claiming her first world junior title.
The 16-year-old and her new partner Genevie Lim stormed into the girls’ doubles final of the World Junior Championships after stunning China’s Shi Sichen-Xiang Yujin 15-9, 15-11 in the semi-finals at the Cairo International Stadium on Friday (Oct 16).
They will next face the winners of the match between Japan’s Nijika Kamata-Shizuku Kashio and South Korea’s Choi De-ya-Kim Min-chee.
It will be Zi Yu’s third appearance in a world junior final.
She had also reached the final with Noraqilah Maisarah Ramdan in 2025 and Dania Sofea Zaidi in 2024 but fell short on both occasions.
On Thursday, 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.
The pair are Malaysia’s only survivors 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.
