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As the group runners-up, the path has become harder as Malaysia will now play one of these teams - China, Indonesia and Japan - in the quarter-finals.
In the mixed doubles, world No. 48 Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei were beaten 19-21, 21-19, 16-21 by world No. 26 Ishaan Bhatnagar-Tanisha Crasto.
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian shuttlers suffered a disappointing 1-4 loss to India in their final Group B match at the Asian Mixed Team Championships on Thursday (Feb 16).
Hope was on world No.4 Lee Zii Jia to get the team off to a brilliant start in the opening match, but the independent shuttler went down 21-18, 13-21, 23-25 to world No. 9 H. S. Prannoy after a hard-fought game at Dubai Exhibition Centre.
Debutant Wong Ling Ching was surprisingly chosen to play instea 卡塔尔世界杯 d of the country's No. 1 Goh Jin Wei, and as expected she lost 2022年世界杯魔咒 out 13-21, 17-21 to 2019 world champion P. V. Sindhu in the women's singles.
Malaysia were confident that world No. 5 women doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah would level the score with a win against Treesa Jolly-Gayathri Gopichand, afterall they had beaten their lower ranked opponents four times before.
With the defeat, Malaysia finished second to India in Group B but both teams qualified for the quarter-finals.
Reigning men's doubles world champions Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik gave Malaysia some hope of mounting a comeback when they beat scratch pair Chirag Shetty-Dhruv Kapila 21-16, 21-10.
If not for several unforced errors, Zii Jia could have won it but he 2022世界杯法国夺冠打破魔咒 paid the price for an erratic form.
But instead, Pearly-Thinaah suffered a shock 21-23, 15-21 defeat to the world No. 19 and handed the tie to India. |
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