Top seed Chong Wei streamrolled past Denmark’s rising star Viktor Axelsen 21-15, 21-11 in the second round to become the only Malaysian survivor in the penultimate leg of the Super Series event.
The 29-year-old was left alone to keep the Malaysian flag flying as the other representative – KLRC’s Mohd Hafiz Hashim – crashed out in the second round after losing 16-21, 15-21 to Ajay Jayaram of India.
With Hafiz’s defeat, Ajay will now take on Chong Wei for a place in the semi-final.
A good day for India became even better when junior player R.M.V. Gurusaidutt pulled off an upset 15-21, 21-7, 21-13 win over seventh seed Du Pengyu of China.
Another Chinese player lies in wait for him in the form of second seed and high-flying Chen Long.
Two other Chinese players – Lin Dan and Chen Jin – also checked into the last eight, where they will face South Korea’s Shon Wan-ho and Denmark’s Peter-Gade Christensen respectively.
Malaysia’s challenge in the doubles were completely wiped out with the exits of Chin Eei Hui-Wong Pei Tty and Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying.
National No. 1 women’s doubles pair Eei Hui-Pei Tty were made to look quite ordinary by top seeds Wang Xiaoli-Yu Yang of China in their 8-21, 16-21 loss in just 25 minutes.
Mixed doubles specialists Peng Soon-Liu Ying put up a better fight but it was still not good enough to beat the rising Korean pair of Ko Sung-hyun-Eom Hye-won. Peng Soon-Liu Ying went down 17-21, 15-21 in 30 minutes.
Courtesy of The Star
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