CHENG Chu Sian equalled a personal best when he reached the men's recurve semi-finals of the first World Cup event of the year in Shanghai yesterday.
The national archer was only denied a place in the final by American World No 1 Brady Ellison, going down 6-2, after a barn-storming run through the knockout stages.Chu Sian finished 39th in the qualifying round but saved his best for the Olympic rounds where he ousted Taiwan's Wang Hou-Chieh, Rick Van Der Ven of the Netherlands, Canada's Crispin Duenas and Italy's Mauro Nespoli before trouncing Piotr Nowak of Poland 7-1 in the quarter-finals.
His performance matched a fourth placing in the 2009 World Cup, also in Shanghai, and Chu Sian can go one better tomorrow in the bronze medal playoff against Thomas Aubert of France.
World No 6 Khairul Anuar Mohamed made the fourth round but was unlucky to run into South Korean Im Dong-Hyun, the 2007 world champion and two-time Olympic team gold medallist, suffering a 7-3 defeat.
Dong-Hyun accounted for Haziq Kamaruddin in the third round 6-0 while another Malaysian Fareez Rosli exited in the first round.
Nurul Syafiqah Hashimwas the best among the women when she reached the third round, where she was beaten in a tie-break by Natalia Valeeva of Italy.
In the team events today, Malaysia meet Taiwan in the men's first round but the women failed to qualify.
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