PETALING JAYA: It was a double disappointment for Malaysia when top singles player Wong Choong Hann and the doubles duo of Choong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah fell in the final hurdle of the US$250,000 China Open Badminton Championships at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou yesterday.
Choong Hann's bid to become the only player to win back to back international men's singles title this year came unstuck at the hands of Chinese teenager Lin Dan while Tan Fook-Wan Wah met their match in reigning world champions Lars Paaske-Jonas Rasmussen of Denmark.