PETALING JAYA: Food poisoning put paid to shuttler Lee Chong Wei’s hopes of winning his first back-to-back title outside Malaysia yesterday.
The world No. 1 was beaten 21-7, 16-21, 18-21 by unseeded Chinese and former world junior champion Chen Long in the first round of the Indian Open in Hyderabad. It was the first time in 22 months that Chong Wei ended up as a first-round casualty after the defeat by compatriot Mohd Hafiz Hashim at the Singapore Open in 2007.
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