Australian Open: Aaron-Wooi Yik breeze into quarter-finals 

KUALA LUMPUR – Top national men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik continued with their winning ways to check into the quarter-finals of the 2023 Australian Open today.

The former world champions needed 34 minutes to subdue Taiwan’s Chiu Hsiang Chieh-Yang Ming Tse 21-19, 21-14 in the second round at the State Sports Centre in Sydney.

In tomorrow’s quarter-finals, world number four Aaron-Wooi Yik will take on another Taiwanese pair Lu Ching Yao-Yang Po Han, who ousted Indonesians Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra Setiawan 21-10, 21-13 in their second-round clash.

Aaron-Wooi Yik also reached the quarter-finals of the Japan Open last month before going down 21-10, 15-21, 16-21 to the home pair of Takuro Hoki-Yugo Kobayashi.

Meanwhile, the other national men’s doubles pair of Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzudin failed to make the cut for the last eight after losing 16-21, 21-23 to South Koreans Kang Min-hyuk-Seo Seung-jae. – Bernama, August 3, 2023