Unheralded Vountus-Lutfi steal show with major scalp

ALOR SETAR: Top seeds Lee Chong Wei and Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong lived up to their top billings when they checked into the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold with relatively comfortable wins at the Sultan Abdul Halim Stadium here yesterday.

But it was the surprise victory of Malaysia’s unheralded men’s pair of Vountus Indra Mawan-Mohd Lutfi Zaim Abdul Khalid over Olympic and former world champions Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan that stole the thunder.