<figure id="attachment_2963081" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2963081" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-2963081 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/4fbd249f-aaron-chia-soh-wooi-yik-bernama-pic-16125.webp" alt="Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2963081" class="wp-caption-text">Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik are the newly crowned National Sportsmen of the Year 2024. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: Newly crowned National Sportsmen of the Year 2024 Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik have booked their place in the men’s doubles quarter-finals of the Thailand Open after defeating their Japanese opponents in Bangkok tonight.
The world No 5 pair defeated the 36th ranked Hiroki Midorikawa-Kyohei Yamashita 21-17, 21-17 in a match lasting 38 minutes.
Malaysia is assured of a semi-final berth as Aaron-Wooi Yik will meet compatriots Junaidi Arif-Yap Roy King, who defeated Kang Khai Xing-Aaron Tai 21-11, 21-11 in an all-Malaysian second round match that lasted just 24 minutes.
Also in the quarter-final round are women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M Thinaah.
Earlier, national men’s singles shuttler Aidil Sholeh Ali Sadikin put up a gallant display before going down in three games to China’s world No 14 player Lu Guang Zu in the second round.
The Malaysian world No 48 took the first game 21-18 with some confidence, despite playing an opponent who had won three BWF World Tour titles in the past. However, he lost the remaining games 16-21, 14-21 in the match lasting 69 minutes.
It was the first time that Aidil, 25, had made it past the first round in a World Tour Super 500 event.
In another men’s doubles match, Malaysia’s world No 7 pair Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun suffered a shock defeat to 75th ranked William Kryger Boe-Christian Faust Kjaer from Denmark 21-15, 19-21, 18-21 in 49 minutes.
Women’s doubles pair Go Pei Kee-Teoh Mei Xin lost tamely to Meilysa Trias Puspitasari-Rachel Alleyssya Rose from Indonesia 18-21, 7-21.

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Aaron-Wooi Yik cruise into Thai Open quarter-finals

The world No 5 pair will meet compatriots Junaidi Arif-Yap Roy King for a place in the semi-finals tomorrow.

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