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Five Singles Players March Into Fourth Round




ALOR SETAR, Oct 29 (Bernama) -- Five Malaysian singles players - three men and two women - marched into the fourth round of the World Junior Badminton Championships at the Sultan Abdul Halim Indoor Stadium Thursday.

Leading the charge was Sonia Cheah Su Ya, the younger sister of national senior women's singles player Lydia Cheah, who beat Japan's Sayaka Takahasi 22-20, 21-16 in straight sets.

The 16-year-old Kuala Lumpur lass, making her debut here will next face her toughest hurdle tomorrow when she faces Xiaojia Chen of China, the top seed in the competition.

"I am happy with my performance so far because I was able to beat a number of seeded players in the championships," she told reporters after here match.

National women's junior ace Tee Jing Yi also booked her ticket to the fourth round of the women's singles with an easy 21-14, 21-13 win over Thailand's Jindapol Nitchaon.



Three men's singles players Zulfadli Zulkifli, Misbun Ramdan Mohamed Misbun and Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin also joined the duo in the fourth round after beating their respective opponents.

Iskandar, the country's number one junior player, cruised past Singapore's Gerard Ong Soon Lee 21-16, 21-11 before Zulfadli overcame India's Pranoy H.S 24-22, 21-12 while Misbun Sidek's son Misbun Ramdan encountered a tougher opponent in Ari Trisnanto from Indonesia and had to go the distance before winning 21-11, 21-23, 21-19 in three sets.

--BERNAMA

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