HK pair crash out in badminton season-ender

Hong Kong’s Tang Chun-man and Tse Ying-suet have missed out on the chance of a place in the final at the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals in Bali.

The SAR pair won two of their three group games to qualify for the semi-final but went down three games to two to Japan’s Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino.

Tang and Tse won the first game 21-9 but went on to lose 21-9 in the second. The deciding game was close, but the Japanese pair came out 21-19 winners to head to the final against the Thai pair, who earlier beat Hong Kong to top their group.

Tang and Tse were the SAR’s only representatives in Bali.