KUALA LUMPUR: Reigning All-England champion Lee Zii Jia is ready to raise the bar higher – to crack into the world’s top-five ranking. If he wins the SEA Games gold again, Zii Jia will become the first Malaysian men’s singles shuttler to achieve the feat. It’s one of my targets for this year, ” admitted Zii Jia. Zii Jia and Pearly-Thinaah were also presented with incentives of RM30,000 and RM15,000 respectively, which are given on top of the prize money they had earned for winning the titles. For Zii Jia, he has now collected a cool RM277,000, which included the US$59,500 (RM247,000) champion’s purse he received.

Source: The Star April 01, 2021 20:10 UTC