‘It Comes Down to the Small Details’
Last year, Terry Hee and Jessica Tan Wei Han had enjoyed the perfect start to the HSBC BWF World Tour, winning the season-opening YONEX SUNRISE India Open 2023. It was a timely wedding gift for the off-court couple…
· DEV SUKUMAR
Last year, Terry Hee and Jessica Tan Wei Han had enjoyed the perfect start to the HSBC BWF World Tour, winning the season-opening YONEX SUNRISE India Open 2023. It was a timely wedding gift for the off-court couple who’d married the previous October, and an auspicious start to the year, for they went on to accomplish their career’s biggest moment – gold at the Commonwealth Games.
This year the start hasn’t been as dramatic as they exited early in the first three events, but they did achieve their career-highest ranking of No.13 in January.
As recently as 2021 the Singapore duo had to ply their trade at International Challenge and International Series level, as Hee was returning from mandatory national service. Now, as regulars on the HSBC BWF World Tour, the nature of the challenge has changed, as Hee acknowledged as much: