Kuala Lumpur: National men’s shuttlers Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani were knocked out in the second round of the All England championship in Birmingham last night, losing in straight games to a much lower-ranked pair from South Korea.
The world No 2 pair lost 16-21, 13-21 to Kim Won Ho-Seo Seung Jae, who are No 43 in the BWF world ranking.
Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin had defeated them in their previous meeting at the India Open in January.
The All England, a BWF 1000 series event which offers a total of RM6.6 million in prize money, has seen most of Malaysia’s players knocked out in the early rounds.
Only mixed doubles pair Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie and women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M Thinaah have qualified for the quarter-finals to be played today.
Pearly-Thinaah will meet Japan’s Nami Matsuyama-Chiharu Shida, who beat the Malaysian pair in the Olympics bronze play-off last year.
Soon Huat-Shevon meanwhile will face China’s Jiang Zhan Bang-Huang Dong Ping, who have been in fine form in Birmingham.