<figure id="attachment_2936180" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2936180" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2936180" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/d5b01c9d-tang-jie-ee-wei-bernama-121224-1.webp" alt="tang jie ee wei" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2936180" class="wp-caption-text">Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei booked their place in the mixed doubles final event at the World Tour Finals when they beat fellow Malaysians Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Jemie Lai in a semi-final match this morning. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: National mixed doubles shuttlers Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei created history when they became the first Malaysians to qualify for a final event in the season-ending RM11 million BWF World Tour Finals since its inception in 2018.
Tang Jie-Ee Wei, who had beaten Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Jemie Lai in their opening Group B tie on Wednesday, proved that it was no fluke when they won again by a 21-15, 21-12 scoreline in a semi-final clash this morning.
The match at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium in China lasted 42 minutes.
In the final, the world No 8 will meet China’s third-ranked Zheng Si Wei-Huang Ya Qiong who defeated compatriots Jiang Zhen Bang-Wei Ya Xin 21-11, 21-18 in the other semi-final.
It was Tang Jie-Ee Wei&#8217;s fourth win over the husband-and-wife pair in seven encounters.
Tang Jie-Ee Wei, who won the Korean Open in September, made fewer mistakes and showed better teamwork to upstage the older and more experienced Soon Huat-Shevon.
However, Soon Huat-Shevon will not go home empty-handed as they will receive US$50,000 for qualifying for the semi-finals.
Tang Jie-Ee Wei topped Group B with Soon Huat-Shevon as the runners-up after three matches, and they were originally drawn to play the top two winners in Group A, who are both from China, in this morning&#8217;s semi-finals.
However, in a late night “redraw” by BWF yesterday, the top two pairs in each group were picked to play each other.
The winners in both the men&#8217;s and women’s singles events will pocket US$200,000 each, with the runners-up getting US$100,000. The other semi-finalists will receive US$50,000 each.
The third-placed men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s singles players in the group will pocket US$27,500 each, and those placed fourth will take home US$15,000 each.
In the doubles events, the winners will receive US$210,000 and the runners-up US$100,000. The other semi-finalists will pocket US$50,000 each. Those placed third and fourth in the group will receive US$32,000 and US$17,500, respectively.

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