TOP men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik gave Malaysia a fitting National Day gift by winning the 2022 World Badminton Championships title in Tokyo today.
In the final at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Aaron-Wooi Yik scored an emphatic 21-19, 21-14 victory in 40 minutes over former three-time world champions Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia.
The win over the Indonesians, dubbed “The Daddies”, has made Aaron-Wooi Yik the first ever Malaysian shuttlers to be crowned world champions.
In their three previous outings at the world meet, world number six Aaron-Wooi Yik had only gone as far as the quarter-finals, at the 2018 edition in Nanjing, China.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics bronze medallists were also the first Malaysian pair to enter the final in 12 years after Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong did it in the 2010 edition in Paris.
