SINGAPORE: Singapore's first badminton world champion Loh Kean Yew on Sunday (Apr 30) lost in the men's singles final of the 2023 Badminton Asia Championships but walked away with another milestone to his name. A blistering tournament run by the world No 7 ground to a halt at the hands of
SINGAPORE: Singapore's first badminton world champion Loh Kean Yew on Sunday lost in the men's singles final of the 2023 Badminton Asia Championships but walked away with another milestone to his name.Indonesia's Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, who took just half an hour to trounce Loh 21-12, 21-8 at Dubai's Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall and claim the prestigious continental crown.
But the Singaporean still made history by becoming the first from his country to win a silver medal at the Asian tournament, bettering the bronze achieved by Indra Wijaya in the men's singles in 2001, Xiao Luxi in the women's singles in 2002 and the mixed doubles pair of Hendri Saputra and Li Yujia in 2006.
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