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Fairuzizuan-Zakry dapat tiket ke Siri Super Masters Akhir

KUALA LUMPUR - Fairuzizuan Tazari- Zakry Latif menerima khabar gembira semalam apabila mendapat tiket untuk beraksi pada Kejohanan Badminton Siri Super Masters Akhir di Johor Bahru, minggu depan.

Penyertaan beregu No. 11 dunia itu disahkan Persekutuan Badminton Dunia (BWF) bagi menggantikan pasangan Indonesia, Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan yang menarik diri.

Indonesia membatalkan penyertaan pemain-pemain kebangsaannya pada kejohanan bernilai AS$500,000 (RM1.7 juta) itu untuk memberi tumpuan kepada Sukan SEA di Laos, 9-18 Disember.

Bagaimanapun, pemain yang tidak berada di bawah naungan Persatuan Bulu Tangkis Seluruh Indonesia (PBSI) iaitu juara Olimpik 2004, Taufik Hidayat dan beregu Alvent Yulianto akan beraksi.

China, yang turut memilih untuk merehatkan pemain-pemain utamanya bagaimanapun tetap menghantar pemain No. 8 dunia, Bao Chunlai, Lu Lan (perseorangan wanita) dan Guo Zhendong-Xu Chen dalam beregu lelaki.

Ketiadaan pemain-pemain utama China dan Indonesia turut membawa khabar baik buat pemain muda Denmark, Jan Jorgensen apabila mendapat tiket untuk beraksi bersama rakan senegara, Peter Hoeg Gade.

Malaysia mendominasi kedudukan pilihan dalam tiga acara, di mana Datuk Lee Chong Wei turun sebagai pilihan utama perseorangan lelaki, Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong (beregu lelaki) dan Wong Pei Tty-Chin Eei Hui beregu wanita.

"Walaupun agak mengecewakan melihat beberapa pemain terbaik dunia tidak beraksi, namun kami tetap gembira kerana kejohanan ini tetap menghadirkan cabaran yang sangat kuat,'' kata Ketua Pegawai Operasi BWF, Thomas Lund.

Pasukan negara membawa pulang tiga kejuaraan pada edisi sulung kejohanan di Kota Kinabalu tahun lalu menerusi Chong Wei, Kien Keat-Boon Heong dan Pei Tty-Eei Hui.

Senarai Penyertaan:Perseorangan lelaki: Lee Chong Wei (MAS), Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN), Park Sung Hwan (KOR), Bao Chunlai (CHN), Taufik Hidayat (INA), Jan Jorgensen (DEN), Boonsak Ponsana (THA), Hsieh Yu Hsin (TPE).

Beregu lelaki: Koo Kien Keat- Tan Boon Heong (MAS), Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen (DEN), Lee Yong Dae-Jung Jae Sung (KOR), Anthony Clark-Nathan Robertson (ENG), Guo Zhendong-Xu Chen (CHN), Alvent Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan (INA), Rian Sukmawan-Yonathan Dasuki (INA), Zakry Abdul Latif-Fairuzizuan Tazari (MAS)

Perseorangan wanita: Pi Hongyan (FRA), Saina Nehwal (IND), Lu Lan (CHN), Salakjit Ponsana (THA), Yao Jie (NED), Nicole Grether (GER), Juliane Schenk (GER), Kim Moon Hi (KOR).

Beregu wanita: Wong Pei Tty-Chin Eei Hui (MAS), Ha Jung Eun-Kim Min Jung (KOR), Lee Hyo Jung-Lee Kyung Won (KOR), Cheng Wen Hsing-Chien Yu Chin (TPE), Gabrielle White-Jenny Wallwork (ENG), Duang Anong Aroonkesorn- Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA), Lena Frier Kristiansen- Christina Pedersen (DEN), Nicole Grether-Charmaine Reid (GER-CAN).

Beregu campuran: Lee Yong Dae-Lee Hyo Jung (KOR), Joachin Fisher Nielsen-Christina Pedersen (DEN), Songphon Anugritayawon-Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA), Ko Sung Hyun-ha Jung Eun (KOR), V. Diju-Jwala Gutta (IND), Anthony Clark- Donna Kellogg (ENG), Sudket Prapakamol-Saralee Thoungthongkam (THA), Robert Mateusiak-Nadiezda Kostiuczk (POL). UTUSAN

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