KUALA LUMPUR: \u00a0Datuk Misbun Sidek\u2019s role has changed from Badminton Association of Malaysia\u2019s (BAM) director of youth development to the director of youth singles coaching effective this week.
\nAcademy Badminton Malaysia (ABM) executive director Michelle Chai said the change in position was part of a programme to reorganise the national youth squad’s coaching line-up following the disappointing performance at the 2022 BWF World Junior Championships in Santander, Spain, last October.
\nMichelle said ABM would also utilise the expertise\u00a0of BAM doubles coaching director Rexy Mainaky who had been made the new youth doubles coaching director.
\nDatuk Misbun will focus on the singles department since that is his specialty. Junior doubles will be monitored by Rexy, where he will oversee it\u00a0from top to bottom\u00a0so that it’ll be a seamless transition from junior to senior,” he told reporters here today.
\nMichelle said the coaches involved also acknowledged the failure of the youth squad in Spain, and as such,\u00a0all parties agreed that they needed to take a different approach to improve the performance of the players.
\nFor the first time ever, no national player qualified for the quarter-finals of the singles event at the world junior championships, and the national team only finished ninth in the mixed team event.
\nThis was the second time in a row that Malaysia returned empty-handed after the 2019 edition in Kazan, Russia.
\nMeanwhile, the country’s leading men’s doubles player\u00a0Aaron Chia is optimistic about Malaysia\u2019s chances of winning the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2023 (BAMTC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) which takes place from Feb 14 to 19.
\nAaron said that on paper, Malaysia could win its maiden title\u00a0this time as the squad featured a strong line-up including professional men’s singles ace\u00a0Lee Zii Jia and the country’s number one women’s doubles pair\u00a0Pearly Tan-M. Thinah.
\n“Our last mixed team event win was at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, so that has given us a motivational boost for the BAMTC,” he told reporters after the last day of the central training camp ahead of BAMTC here today.
\nMalaysia, as the fourth seeds of the tournament in Dubai, have been drawn in Group B along with India, Kazakhstan and the UAE.
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