{"id":21416,"date":"2023-06-25T21:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=21416"},"modified":"2023-06-25T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T13:05:08","slug":"wei-chong-kai-wun-defend-taiwan-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2023\/06\/25\/wei-chong-kai-wun-defend-taiwan-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Wei Chong-Kai Wun Defend Taiwan Open Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: National men&#8217;s doubles duo&nbsp;Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun&nbsp;defended their Taiwan Open title by defeating home&nbsp;pair&nbsp;Lu Ching Yao-Yang Po Han in the final today.<br>It was no easy task for the 23rd-ranking pair in the world, however, as it took over an hour and three sets&nbsp;to defeat the Taiwanese&nbsp;at the University of Taipei\u2019s&nbsp;Tian Mu Arena.<br>The Malaysians started off cautiously and were made to slog by the home pair, losing&nbsp;20-22 the team ranked 15th&nbsp;in the world.<br>But the tournament\u2019s fifth seeds&nbsp;switched to a more aggressive playing style in the second set to secure a much-deserved 21-17 victory.<br>In the rubber set, Wei Chong-Kai Wun raced to an&nbsp;11-6 lead and maintained their composure to win it&nbsp;21-14, thus repeating the feat they achieved against 2020&nbsp;Tokyo Olympic Gold medallists Lee Yang-Wang Chi Lin in last year\u2019s edition.<br>The Malaysians collected US$16,590 (RM77,562) in prize money,&nbsp;while the runners-up got US$7,980 (RM37,308).<br>Earlier, national mixed doubles pair&nbsp;Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei also successfully claimed their second world tour title at the tournament.<br>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: National men&#8217;s doubles duo&nbsp;Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun&nbsp;defended their Taiwan Open title by defeating home&nbsp;pair&nbsp;Lu Ching Yao-Yang Po Han in the final today.It was no easy task for the 23rd-ranking pair in the world, however, as it took over an hour and three sets&nbsp;to defeat the Taiwanese&nbsp;at the University of Taipei\u2019s&nbsp;Tian Mu Arena.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21418,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions\/21418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}