Peng Soon-Yee See bow out in last eight
THERE was no shame in defeat for Malaysian mixed doubles Chan Peng Soon-Cheah Yee See who crashed out in the Australian Open quarter-finals yesterday.
In fact, 2016 Rio Olympic Games silver medallist Peng Soon encouraged his younger teammate to learn from experience and come back stronger.
Yesterday, the Malaysian scratch pair lost 21-8, 21-17 to seventh seeds Praveen Jordan-Debby Susanto of Indonesia at the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre.
“I am not disappointed. Yee See is still young and she is slowly finding her rhythm.
“She will need some time to improve her game surely. All of us had to go through the same process as well.
“We still have a couple more tournaments and we expect to come back stronger, especially at the Kuala Lumpur Sea Games,” said Peng Soon, who with Yee See, will compete in the Taiwan Open next week.
In the men’s doubles, Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi’s gallant run also came to an end when they lost in three games 14-21, 21-12, 21-15 to World No 10 Liu Cheng-Zhang Nan of China.
Independent shuttler Tan Boon Heong is the only Malaysian left in the competition, after he and his Indonesian partner Hendra Setiawan beat Japan’s Takuto Inoue-Yuki Kaneko 21-14, 21-12.
Boon Heong-Hendra will play China’s Liu Cheng-Zhang Nan next for a place in the final. Fabian Peter