20 Jan 2008: Lee Chong Wei won the 2008 Malaysia Open Badminton championship for the fourth time in his career surpassing his "Jaguh Kampung" predecessor Rashid Sidek's three-time win from 1990 to 1992. Lee Chong Wei's previous wins here were in 2004 (where he beat South Korean Park Sung Hwan in the final), 2005 and 2006 (where he beat Chinese Lin Dan in the final on both ocassions).
The only record he has yet to overcome is the one held by Wong Peng Soon who won this championship for a record total of 8 times from 1940 to 1953.
His results en-route to victory are as follows:
1st Round: bt Muhd Hafiz B Hashim (Malaysia) 21-17, 21-16
2nd Round: bt Przemyslaw Wacha (Poland) 21-5, 15-21, 21-8
Q Finals: bt Simon Santoso (Indonesia) 21-13, 21-13
S Finals: bt Chen Yu (China) 25-23, 21-11
Final: bt Lee Hyun Il (S Korea) 21-15, 11-21, 21-17
Source: tournamentsoftware.com, wikipedia.org
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20 January 2008
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