Taufik pulls a shock


SINGAPORE: World and Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat arrived here as the biggest drawcard of the US$170,000 Aviva Open Singapore badminton championships on Monday but he was back in Jakarta yesterday. 

The Indonesian, who won the six-star Indonesian Open in Surabaya last week, has pulled out of the Singapore Open, citing a recurrent back injury. 

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