Soon Huat-Shevon advance to 3rd round at World Championships
The mixed doubles shuttlers beat American pair Chen Zhi Yi-Francesca Corbett in straight games.
Eleventh-ranked Malaysian mixed doubles shuttlers Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Jemie Lai advanced to the third round of the World Championships following a dominant 2-0 victory over American pair Chen Zhi Yi-Francesca Corbett. The Malaysian duo, who held the world No 11 ranking, swept aside the lower-ranked American pair in straight games, winning 21-15, 21-16 in a 33-minute match at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in India.
This marks their third consecutive win against their American opponents. Goh Soon Huat-Shevon, who received a first-round bye, will now face China's world No 9 pair Cheng Xing-Zhang Chi in the next round. The Malaysian women's doubles duo, Carmen Ting-Ong Xin Yee and Ong Xin Yee, were eliminated from the tournament by Japan's world No 2 pair Yuki Fukushima-Mayu Matsumoto, losing 15-21, 15-21 in 45 minutes.
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