{"id":10469,"date":"2021-07-28T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10469"},"modified":"2021-07-28T20:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:37:37","slug":"olympics-aaron-wooi-yik-working-out-plan-to-stop-world-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10469","title":{"rendered":"Olympics: Aaron-Wooi Yik working out plan to stop world number one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO, July 28&nbsp; &#8212; National men\u2019s doubles shuttlers Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik are ready to fight till they drop despite having a mountain to climb in their Tokyo Olympics quarter-final clash on Thursday (July 29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Malaysian world number nine will be up against Indonesia\u2019s world number one&nbsp;Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo-Marcus Fernaldi Gideon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what makes it such a daunting task is that Aaron-Wooi Yik have never beaten the Olympic top seeds in&nbsp;all seven meetings&nbsp;since their first encounter in the 2018 Malaysia Open. The two pairs last&nbsp;met in&nbsp;the 2020 All England, with Aaron-Wooi Yik&nbsp;losing 17-21,19-21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron said that he and Wooi Yik would work out a game plan with their coach Flandy Limpele during training today to overcome the Indonesian pair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png\" alt=\"wooi yik\" class=\"wp-image-10470\" width=\"508\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png 719w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29-185x100.png 185w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29-350x189.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo me, it doesn\u2019t matter who we meet in the quarter-finals, be it&nbsp;Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo-Marcus Fernaldi Gideon or anyone else. We have prepared so that, whoever we are drawn against, we will do our best, fight until the end,\u201d he said in a video clip posted on the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) Facebook page today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron-Wooi Yik marched into the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics after downing Canadians&nbsp;Jason Ho-Shue-Nyl Yakamura&nbsp;21-15, 21-13 on Tuesday (July 27) in their final Group D match at the&nbsp;Musashino Forest Sports Plaza here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron was also satisfied with their overall performance at the group stage, saying: \u201cI think we can say that we are satisfied with our performance in the group stage although we finished as runners-up\u2026&nbsp;I think we did okay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.bernama.com\/news.php?id=1986789\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, July 28&nbsp; &#8212; National men\u2019s doubles shuttlers Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik are ready to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",719,389,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",640,346,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",640,346,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",719,389,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",719,389,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",719,389,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",719,389,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-20.35.29.png",719,389,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10471,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions\/10471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}