TOYOTA Thailand Open: Hoo/Cheah Knock Out Sixth Seeds
It keeps getting better for Hoo Pang Ron and Cheah Yee See.
· BWF STAFF
The world No.35 Malaysians, playing their first HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000 quarterfinal, outplayed sixth seeds Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja at the TOYOTA Thailand Open.
Hoo and Cheah overcame the loss of the first game and kept their composure in the two tight games that followed. They recovered from a two-point deficit in the closing stages of the third game to win 12-21 21-19 21-19. The Malaysians’ previous best at the World Tour was a semifinal at the Macau Open (Super 300) in 2018 and 2019.
“We had not played on Court 2 yet, and the drift is a little bit different, so it made everything harder. In the second and third games, slowly our shots came back and we did quite well.