Badminton: Choong Hann comes up short in second straight final

PETALING JAYA: For the second consecutive tournament, Malay­sian veteran Wong Choong Hann fell a win short of ending a six-year title drought.

Yesterday, the sixth seeded Choong Hann was beaten 21-11, 21-14 by Nguyen Tien Minh in the Taiwan Open men’s singles final, which saw the third seeded Vietnamese succeeding to break the rhythm of the Malaysian from the start.