Back in the ‘Mix’! – Semi-Finals: BLIBLI Indonesia Open 2018
An ecstatic Goh Liu Ying today savoured her latest success in another comeback from injury – winning the net battle versus Huang Yaqiong as she and Chan Peng Soon (featured image) became the first Malaysian pair to…
· GAYLE ALLEYNE
An ecstatic Goh Liu Ying today savoured her latest success in another comeback from injury – winning the net battle versus Huang Yaqiong as she and Chan Peng Soon (featured image) became the first Malaysian pair to reach the Mixed Doubles final in Indonesia.
Their 21-18 21-16 triumph against the in-form Huang and Zheng Siwei in the semi-finals of the BLIBLI Indonesia Open 2018 propelled them into tomorrow’s title-decider; a tantalising showdown with the defending champions and darlings of Indonesian badminton, Tontowi Ahmad/ Liliyana Natsir. The latter brushed aside their younger team-mates, Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja, 21-18 21-8, in an anticlimactic encounter.
It will be the first meeting of the two pairs since Ahmad and Natsir beat their south-east Asian neighbours for gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.