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Top-class tour badminton returns to Asia for the first time in 10 months this week, and Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu will have his hands full in the opening round of the Daihatsu Indonesia Masters on Tuesday. The city’s No 2 shuttler faces Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen, and will need to improve significantly from when the pair met in the...

Chinas Zhao Junpeng advanced to the mens singles semifinals of the World Badminton Championships for the first time by beating Indias H.S. Prannoy here on Friday. The 26-year-old Zhao, who upset fifth seed Lee Zii Jia in the round of 16, fought back from one set down to defeat world 18th-ranked P ..

ASIAN champion Zii Jia will be determined to create history by ending Malaysia’s elusive wait for a world champion.

PETALING JAYA: Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen is the red-hot favourite to win the men’s singles crown at the World Championships but it wil be foolhardy to underestimate China’s dangerman Shi Yuqi (pic).

Chinas Shi Yuqi looking to win world title after 10-month suspension-

By sportswriter Wang Zijiang TOKYO, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Playing his first tournament in 10 months, China badminton star Shi Yuqi said that he wants to prove by

Chinas Shi Yuqi looking to win world title after 10-month suspension -

By sportswriter Wang Zijiang TOKYO, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Playing his first tournament in 10 months, China badminton star Shi Yuqi said that he wants to prove by

PETALING JAYA: Several top shuttlers have suffered first round knockouts in the World Champion­ships.

THE STAR – Several top shuttlers have suffered first round knockouts in the World Championships. And that should serve as a warning for Malaysia’s world number five Lee Zii Jia to be cautious in the men’s singles first round of his third world meeting. The 24-year-old fifth seed will not want to be part of […]