HANGZHOU, Oct 6 — National males’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik needed to be glad with simply the bronze medal on their Asian Games debut after crashing out within the semi-finals.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medallists had their Asiad journey minimize quick after dropping 17-21, 12-21 to world quantity three Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty of India on the Binjiang Gymnasium tonight.
World quantity 5 Aaron-Wooi Yik have now suffered two straight defeats to the Indian pair in 10 encounters, with their earlier loss coming on the 2023 Indonesian Open.
Aaron attributed their defeat this time to committing unforced errors and a below-par efficiency.
“They put us beneath great stress with their service sport. There was a lot stress by way of gameplay as effectively,” he mentioned.
Meanwhile, Wooi Yik mentioned they received’t let the defeat have an effect on their morale and vowed to bounce again strongly for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“It’s a studying course of… I got here right here to study one thing, (it’s my) first Asian Games. We made it to the semi-finals and, (for) only one match, we didn’t do effectively… (that) doesn’t imply our degree dropped.
“We have to bounce again within the upcoming tournaments. Our larger goal is the Olympics so, it is a course of,” he mentioned.
In tomorrow’s last, Satwiksairaj-Chirag will face South Korea’s Choi Sol Gyu-Kim Won Ho, who shocked reigning Olympic champions Lee Yang-Wang Chi Lin of Taiwan 21-12, 21-10 within the different semi-final.
Aaron-Wooi Yik, the 2022 world champions, had been the one Malaysian shuttlers to make the semi-finals after all of the others crashed out within the early rounds, regardless of the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) setting a gold medal goal within the males’s crew occasion.
In yesterday’s quarter-finals, Aaron-Wooi Yik needed to slog for 81 minutes to tame China’s Liu Yu Chen-Ou Xuan Yi 21-18, 19-21, 21-18 whereas Satwiksairaj-Chirag cruised to a 21-7, 21-9 win over Singapore’s Nge Joo Jie-Johann Prajogo.
The badminton crew additionally didn’t ship any medals within the 2018 version in Jakarta-Palembang, Indonesia after contributing 4 bronze medals on the 2014 version in Incheon, South Korea in males’s singles (Datuk Lee Chong Wei), males’s doubles (Goh V Shem-Tan Wee Kiong), girls’s doubles (Vivian Hoo-Woon Khe Wei) and males’s crew. — eNM
