BANGKOK, May 9 (Bernama) —\u00a0Loh Kean Yew may have\u00a0achieved great success becoming world champion after winning the World Badminton Championships last year, but the SEA Games gold medal continues to elude\u00a0the Singaporean\u00a0men\u2019s singles ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, the 2019 SEA Games silver medallist has set his sights on\u00a0bagging his first-ever gold medal at\u00a0the biennial games in Hanoi, Vietnam, even as he leads Singapore into the 2022 Thomas Cup Finals, which starts today and ends on May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s my target (SEA Games gold). Whether I win or not, I don\u2019t know, and nobody knows who will win it. So, I\u2019ll just try my best,\u201d he told reporters after securing the first point for Singapore in the first Group A match against Indonesia today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Kean Yew\u2019s 21-13, 21-14 victory against Indonesia\u2019s top shuttler, Anthony Sinisuka Ginting was not enough to help his team defeat the defending champions, as they ended up losing the match 1-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Penang-born shuttler created history when he became the first Singaporean player to win the World Badminton Championships, a feat no Malaysian has managed to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The closest any Malaysian got is the final of the prestigious tournament, with former world number one, Datuk Lee Chong Wei, losing the final three times, in 2011, 2013 and 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As more shuttlers monitoring his performance, Kean Yew admitted that he was still learning to cope with the pressure and hoped to improve since his historic win in Spain, last December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think mentally and heart wise, I\u2019m much better now and at the same time, I tried to be happy about life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kean Yew is scheduled to return to the court at Impact Arena when Singapore take on South Korea in their second group match of the 2022 Thomas Cup Finals tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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