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Head Start For Malaysian Shuttlers In India


NEW DELHI, April 27 (Bernama) -- Malaysian shuttlers, along with the world's top player Datuk Lee Chong Wei, had a head start in the Indian Open Super Series Wednesday -- easily advancing to the second round.

As expected, Lee, favourite to win his maiden Indian Open title, set the pace by beating his Indian opponent Ajay Jayaram.

On the second day, other Malaysians also took advantage of the less competitive championship, where world class players like China men's singles stars Lin Dan and Chen Long plus women single's aces - Wang Shixian, Wang Yihan and Wang Xin - were missing.

However, their talents are yet to be tested in Delhi, as the early rounds posed little challenge from young players, largely from India, Japan and South Korea.

National top players like women's double's pair Chin Eei Hui-Wong Pei Tty who had an easy game against India's Thulasi P.C-Siki Reddy, winning 21-7, 21-11, are likely to rough it out in the next round.

They are drawn against India's top pair Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa, the 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medal winners, on Thursday.

Likewise men's double team Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif-Thien How Hoon would face third seeded Indonesia pair Chandra Alvent Yulianto and Gunawan Hendra Aprida.

In Wednesday's matches, men's doubles pair Mohd Zakry-How Hoon knocked out Utsav Mishra-Ravinder Singh 21-9, 21-17 while Chan Peng Soo-Tan Wee Kiong outplayed Sajeeth S.- Jagadish Yadav 21-7, 21-17.

The women's pair of Chong Sook Chin-Goh Liu Ying beat Sanyogita Ghorpade-Sail Rane 21-19, 21-13, 21-12 while mixed doubles pair Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying defeated India's Tarun Kona-Ashwini Ponnapa 23-21, 21-10.

In other matches involving top players, Indonesia's Tuafik Hidayat, seeded second in Delhi, outplayed India's Anup Sridhar 21-13, 21-5 while Danish veteran Peter Hoeg Gade, the wiorld number six, had to slog it out in three sets to tame Japan's Kazushi Yamada 13-21, 22-20, 21-8.

The US$200,000 (RM600,000) Indian Open which was promoted to the Super Series status started at the Sri Fort sports Complex in Delhi today.

-- BERNAMA - By P. Vijian

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