Narrow win for Aaron-Wooi Yik at World Tour Finals opener
National men’s doubles shuttlers Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik opened their World Tour Finals campaign in Hangzhou, China, today with a hard-fought victory over Indonesian pair Fajar Alfian-Shohibul Fikri.
The world No 2 pair prevailed 22-24, 21-18, 21-19 in 82 minutes against their eighth-ranked pair, a crucial win in what has been dubbed as the “group of death” in the RM12.5 million championships.
They will face China’s world No 5 duo Liang Wei Keng-Wang Chang tomorrow, followed by India’s world No 3 pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty on Friday in the round robin group matches.
A win against either pair would guarantee them a place in the semi-finals.
It was Aaron-Wooi Yik’s first victory over Fajar-Shohibul in their three encounters to date.
The season-ending World Tour Finals offers prize money of US$252,000 (RM1.03 million) to…
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