Lee Yong Dae Confident of Return to the Top
Lee Yong Dae has had a quiet season so far by his phenomenal standards.
· DEV SUKUMAR
Following a two-year hiatus after his retirement in 2016, Lee had returned to international badminton with Kim Gi Jung and the two had immediately made an impact at their first event together, winning the Barcelona Spain Masters.
They followed up with a quarterfinal in Korea – beating the world No.3 pair Takeshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda – and then won the Macau Open. Two more quarterfinals later, they seemed set to storm back into the elite ranks.
But their progress has stalled this year. A run of early exits at their first three tournaments was somewhat offset by a semifinal at the Swiss Open, but at the Singapore Open last week, they once again crashed out early, in the second round.