‘Minions’ Bite the Dust – Day 4: Celcom Axiata Malaysia Open 2018
Indonesia’s Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo suffered their earliest exit from a tournament in nearly a year as they came up short against young Chinese He Jiting and Tan Qiang at the Celcom Axiata…
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Indonesia’s Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo suffered their earliest exit from a
tournament in nearly a year as they came up short against young Chinese He Jiting and Tan Qiang at the Celcom Axiata Malaysia Open 2018 today.
The ‘Minions’, whose last quarter-final loss was at the TOTAL BWF World Championships last August, started confidently and even showboated around but the Chinese were alert to their tricks and had the better of them in the rapid exchanges. Uncharacteristically, Fernaldi and Sukamuljo’s errors began to pile up and they looked a shadow of