\nPETALING JAYA: Malaysian shuttlers cruised to an easy 5-0 win over an understrength France in their Group C opener of the mixed biennial Sudirman Cup championship in Xiamen, China, today.<\/p>\n
World No 2 men\u2019s doubles pair Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani got Malaysia to a good start by winning their opening tie 21-11, 21-9. (Bernama pic)
\nPETALING JAYA: Malaysian shuttlers cruised to an easy 5-0 win over an understrength France in their Group C opener of the mixed biennial Sudirman Cup championship in Xiamen, China, today.<\/p>\n
The victory puts them in a strong footing to qualify for the knockout stage, with ties against Australia and Japan to be played tomorrow and Wednesday, respectively.<\/p>\n
The top two teams in the group qualify for the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
World No 2 men\u2019s doubles pair Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani got Malaysia to a good start by defeating Mael Cattoen-Lucas Renoir 21-11, 21-9 in the opening match.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s singles shuttler Goh Jin Wei made it 2-0 by defeating Leonice Huet 21-10, 21-19.<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s singles player Leong Jun Hao sealed the tie by winning the decisive point, edging his opponent, Arnaud Merkle, also in straight games 22-20, 21-19.<\/p>\n
Malaysia completed the rout with women\u2019s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M Thinaah and mixed doubles duo Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Jemie Lai winning their matches with ease.<\/p>\n
Pearly-Thinaah beat Margot Lambert-Camille Pognante 21-13, 21-10, while Soon Huat-Shevon won 21-7, 21-9 against Gregoire Deschamp-Elsa Jacob.<\/p>\n
The Malaysians are expected to have another easy tie when they play Australia tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No 2 men\u2019s doubles pair Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani got Malaysia to a good start by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[30455,2000,299,36,30456,30457,30458,30459,30460,30461,30462,30463],"class_list":{"0":"post-58117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-badminton","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-goh-sze-fei","13":"tag-m-thinaah","14":"tag-nur-izzuddin-rumsani","15":"tag-pearly-tan","16":"tag-pearly-thinaah","17":"tag-sports-2","18":"tag-sudirman-cup","19":"tag-sze-fei-nur-izzuddin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114416985347161863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}