Zii Jia wants to deliver on home ground
KUALA LUMPUR: Shuttler Lee Zii Jia reckons that those playing under the Badminton Association of Malaysia ( BAM) banner, especial ly in men’s singles, must make full use of home ground advantage when the six-day Perodua Malaysia Masters begins today.
The 21-year- old also knows that he will have his work cut out for him as he will start his campaign from the qualifying rounds in the US$ 350,000 ( RM1.43 million) Malaysia Masters at the Axiata Arena.
“It’s true that most of the BAM players are young. But I hope all the youngsters, not just me, will make it our responsibility to prove that our generation of shuttlers can stand and deliver,” he said in a statement here yesterday.
“I think we can all take heart from the return of Datuk Lee Chong Wei to training because he is someone we all look up to and he can lead us,” added Zii Jia, who lost to experienced Frenchman Brice Leverdez in the quarter-finals of last week’s Thailand Masters.
The o ther BAM player s competing at the Malaysia Masters are Aaron Chia-Wooi Yik Soh, Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi (men’s doubles); Goh Jin Wei, Lee Ying Ying, Sonia Cheah (women’s singles); Chow Mei Kuan-Lee Meng Yean (women’s doubles); and Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai, Tan Kian MengLai Pei Jing (mixed doubles). — Bernama