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BWF World Championships: Favourable Draw For Malaysians

Aug 13, 2025

Most of our shuttlers have received favourable draws for the upcoming Badminton World Championships in France.  

All but one of our doubles pairs have first-round byes...  

This means that reps like Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik, Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin and Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah will start their campaigns in the second round.  

Meanwhile in the men's singles, Lee Zee Jia will take on the World No. 38 from Korea.  

Women's singles shuttler Goh Jin Wei will face China's world No 14 in the opening round. 

The World Championships kick off in Paris from the 25th of this month.  

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Gianluigi Donnarumma has publicly announced he is about to leave PSG, amid his falling-out with the Champions league winners over contract negotiations. . 

He has since been linked with clubs including Man City. 

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PSG have already dropped Donnarumma for tomorrow morning's UEFA Super Cup clash against Tottenham tomorrow morning.  

They'll also be without João Neves, who is suspended.  

Spurs are expected to hand competitive debuts to new signings Mohammed Kudus and João Palhinha. 

However James Maddison will be a long-term absentee due to his ACL injury.  

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Liverpool have ruled out selling defender Ibrahima Konate, after some reports linked him with Chelsea. 

This, is despite the EPL champions working to sign two new centre-backs during the current transfer window.  

Elsewhere, Chelsea attacker Christopher Nkunku reportedly wants to leave the Blues this summer and join Bayern Munich. 

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