World Badminton Championships: Hong Kong’s Angus Ng and Lee Cheuk-yiu eye breakthrough
- Under coach Wong Tat Meng, two of the city’s top shuttlers have found extra confidence ahead of the championships in Tokyo
- Angus Ng will take on South Korea’s Heo Kwang-hee, who he has beaten twice, in the opening round, while Lee Cheuk-yiu will face New Zealander Abhinav Manota
Nearly two months of working with a new coach have given Hong Kong’s Angus Ng Ka-long and Lee Cheuk-yiu cause for optimism ahead of the World Badminton Championships in Tokyo next week.
The pair have targeted the tournament in Japan as their breakthrough moment, and are focused on improving on their previous best showings of each reaching the last 16.
And the influence of former Malaysia player Wong Tat Meng already seems to be showing, with Ng reaching his first final in 18 months at the Malaysian Masters in July – a performance he put down to Tat Meng’s on-court coaching.
“Tat Meng has a different approach to coaching,” the world No 11 said. “He focuses on quality rather than quantity, and his advantage is that he’s coached in different countries.
“He knows a lot about most of our opponents, which helps us a lot, particularly his on-court guidance.”