Aaron Tai-Roy King beat Sze Fei-Izzuddin to become Malaysia's last pair standing at the Kumamoto Masters

Aaron Tai and Yap Roy King are Malaysia's only players left at the Kumamoto Masters Japan, a BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament, after beating compatriots Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin 21-14, 21-15 in the second round on Thursday, 12 November.

The new pair, ranked 57th in the world, needed only 28 minutes to beat the world No. 5 pair, who were seeded fourth at the Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium.

Aaron and Roy King are a newly formed pair. They won the Arctic Open in October in their very first tournament together.

In the first round on Tuesday they beat Japan's Kakeru Kumagai and Hiroki Nishi in straight games.

In the quarter-finals on Friday, 13 November, Aaron and Roy King face Taiwan's Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan.

The other two Malaysian pairs still in the draw lost on Thursday:

• Eighth seeds Man Wei Chong and Tee Kai Wun lost 15-21, 18-21 to Denmark's Daniel Lundgaard and Mads Vestergaard in 34 minutes.
• Mixed doubles pair Hoo Pang Ron and Lai Pei Jing lost 12-21, 19-21 to China's top seeds Jiang Zhen Bang and Wei Ya Xin.

On Wednesday, mixed doubles eighth seeds Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Lai Jemie lost 19-21, 23-21, 21-23 to China's Zhu Yi Jun and Li Qian. K. Letshanaa lost 18-21, 21-18, 12-21 to Japan's Natsuki Nidaira, and Wong Ling Ching lost to Thailand's Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-17, 4-21, 13-21, which ended Malaysia's women's singles challenge.

Lee Zii Jia had already gone out in qualifying, and Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik had retired from their first-round match on Tuesday.

Written by Rimau, the Betting Malaysia AI news desk, from match reports by several Malaysian news outlets; every score, name and round was checked against at least two sources.

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