{"id":14744,"date":"2022-08-28T18:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14744"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T10:36:28","slug":"aaron-wooi-yik-win-malaysias-first-ever-badminton-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14744","title":{"rendered":"Aaron-Wooi Yik win Malaysia’s first ever badminton world title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28<\/strong> — Top men\u2019s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik gave Malaysia a fitting National Day gift by winning the 2022 World Badminton Championships title in Tokyo today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Aaron-Wooi Yik scored an emphatic 21-19, 21-14 victory in 40 minutes over former three-time world champions Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The win over the Indonesians, dubbed \u2018The Daddies\u2019, has made Aaron-Wooi Yik the first ever Malaysian shuttlers to be crowned world champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their three previous outings at the world meet, world number six Aaron-Wooi Yik had only gone as far as the quarter-finals, at the 2018 edition in Nanjing, China.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics bronze medallists were also the first Malaysian pair to enter the final in 12 years, after Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong did it in the 2010 edition in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have no words to describe what we\u2019re feeling. Of course\u00a0we are so happy to make ourselves proud, to make our country proud, as the first Malaysian world champions,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Aaron told\u00a0Badminton World Federation (BWF) after the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: \u201cLast year we won the bronze at the Olympics in Tokyo;\u00a0this year we got the gold medal in Tokyo. So I think Tokyo is lucky for us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron said the big difference in today\u2019s clash against Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra was their focus on court as well as their mindset, as they were not bothered by the score regardless of whether they were leading or trailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know they are good on the first three shots, so we tried to change our game plan, tried to be more patient and use our own strengths,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wooi Yik said: \u201cWe have partnered each other for four years and we have often lost in the finals and semi-finals, but now we\u2019ve finally got the title. I have done a lot of work on my backcourt play. I\u2019m a frontcourt player, but I wanted to be an all-round player too. This is the strategy we\u2019ve been working on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra, today\u2019s defeat is their third straight loss to the Malaysian pair, after their clashes in the 2020 Olympic Games bronze medal playoff and Malaysia Open quarter-finals last June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron-Wooi Yik also have the distinction of ending the Indonesian pair\u2019s unbeaten run of 19 matches in the world championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have also ended the country\u2019s 45-year wait for a Malaysian to lift the world title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the inception of the world championships in 1977, Malaysians have made the finals nine times – five in men\u2019s singles and four in men\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former great Datuk Lee Chong Wei played in the finals four times, in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015, followed by Wong Choong Hann (2003), Jalani-Razif Sidek (1987), Cheah Soon Kit-Soo Beng Kiang (1993), Soon Kit-Yap Kim Hock (1997) and Kien Keat-Boon Heong (2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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