KUALA LUMPUR – No sweat for national mixed doubles pair Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei as they defeated Indonesia’s Dejan Febrinansyah and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja to make it to the semi-finals of the World Tour Finals (WTF) at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre today.
It took the pair 49 minutes to win the match 21-17, 21-18.
At the same time, professional mixed doubles team Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Lai kept their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals alive after defeating the Japanese pair Hiroki Midorikawa and Natsu Saito 21-14, 21-14 earlier today.
However, national women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan and M. Thinaah will be heading home early after their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals were dashed by India’s Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand today.
The match, which took place at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre, saw the world’s sixth-ranked pair fall to Treesa and Gayatri 19-21, 19-21 in 46 minutes.
This was Pearly and Thinaah’s second defeat in the tournament after also losing to the Japanese pair Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida 21-13, 17-21, 18-21 in their first match yesterday.
Awaiting Pearly and Thinaah in their next match in Group A are tournament seeds Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning from China, who have already secured their semi-final ticket after winning two consecutive matches.
Only the top two pairs from each group will qualify for the semi-finals in this season’s tournament. – December 12, 2024