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World No. 7 men’s doubles pair Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani were shown the exit by England’s Ben Lane-Sean Vendy in the second round of the Malaysia Open on Thursday (Jan 8).

The Malaysian pair struggled to match their opponents' pace and solid defensive play before conceding 21-13, 21-17 in 42 minutes.

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00:00Let's go!
00:02Let's go!
00:09I think attack defense is very solid.
00:12There are some simple mistakes,
00:16and we've done too many.
00:18Unfortunately.
00:20At least, we've tried the best.
00:24We've tried the best,
00:26and we fought until the last one.
00:30How's the court condition?
00:32Okay.
00:34When you go back to the left,
00:36you're like, like,
00:38there's a problem.
00:40Do you think you want to take the ball?
00:42Yeah,
00:44there's a problem at the left.
00:46There's a problem at the left.
00:48So,
00:50So, adakah benda itu dilantu
00:52bila, bila, bila,
00:54berapa kali, kan?
00:56Tak adalah, benda itu biasa bagi kami.
00:58Okay, selepas ini,
01:00apa percayaan secara seterusnya?
01:02Tujuan yang apa yang jadi sasaran?
01:04You're open, next.
01:06You're open, you're last year,
01:08you're...
01:10So, this is my title defense.
01:12Rasa,
01:14senang dah, mudah dah,
01:16so, yang penting,
01:18yang terbaik.
01:28Ya, obviously,
01:30the goingers didn't start very strong,
01:32and put us under lots of pressure.
01:34And then, we sort of relaxed into the game
01:36after the first ten points,
01:38and managed to play our style,
01:40and get into our own rhythm,
01:42which is obviously really important,
01:44because as soon as you start following a pair like them,
01:46and I think we did that throughout the whole game,
01:48to be honest, and made it quite hard for them.
01:50Ya, I think
01:52the key for us was probably our defense.
01:54We were really solid.
01:56We settled down, like Ben said,
01:58from probably close to the start of the game,
02:00which, you know, really made us
02:02confident to lift, and confident to,
02:04you know, take them on.
02:06So, ya, that was kind of the key for us,
02:08which was the opposite to Tuesday when we played.
02:10We didn't settle on defense, and made it hard for ourselves.
02:12Things could change anytime in this stadium.
02:14Ya, as Sean said,
02:16Tuesday, we didn't settle that well on defense.
02:18Today, we settled on defense.
02:20It was our first competitive match for a long time on Tuesday,
02:24and hopefully, we've now settled into a tournament,
02:26and can go out tomorrow and play well again.
02:28You guys seem to have a very good record against Malaysian opponents.
02:32Is that a coincidence?
02:34Coincidence. There's so many Malaysian pairs on the World Tour.
02:38It's like you're bound to come up against
02:40two or three a tournament if you go deep into rounds.
02:44And it just so happens,
02:46the tournaments that we have gone deep into rounds,
02:48you know, there's been a lot of Malaysian pairs there.
02:50I don't think it's a coincidence.
02:52It's just, we give our best against every pair.
02:54It doesn't matter.
02:56We love playing Malaysians because they also give their best,
02:58and it's a good fight.
03:00I think the only pair we actually haven't beaten is Man and T.
03:02Oh, Man and T, sorry.
03:04But yeah, I mean, as Sean said,
03:06there's like seven or eight Malaysian pairs in this tournament,
03:09so that's, you know, there's 32 pairs.
03:11So, if we play however many tournaments a year,
03:14you're bound to come up against maybe,
03:16you know, 10 Malaysian pairs in a year.
03:18So, it obviously shows that Malaysian men's doubles is very strong.
03:22Were you quite relieved that, you know,
03:25today you only played two sets?
03:27You know, you could save some energy for tomorrow?
03:29Yeah, it's always nice to save some energy,
03:33but I think we're also conditioned to play three sets in one day,
03:36not a problem.
03:38Yeah, it's great, like I said,
03:40but, you know, if we needed to play three sets,
03:42we're more than capable.
03:44Okay, thank you.
03:50Thank you!
03:51You
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