Lee-vel of Excellence: A twin doubles team shakes up the YONEX Swiss Open

Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee say to themselves: Why look far away when good things are so close? Born a few minutes apart on 20 September 1997, the two players from Taiwan are twins and have been touring the BWF Tour for years. Thanks to their brotherly intuition, one knows exactly what the other is doing (often well in advance). This of course helps, as the once again numerous spectators at the YONEX Swiss Open were able to see in the afternoon session of the quarter-finals on Friday. The Lee twins, currently ranked 21st in the doubles world rankings, defeated the Indonesians Gutama/Isfahani, seeded No. 2 in Basel, 21-19, 14-21 and 21-13 in a spectacular match that lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes. The Taiwanese had already turned out to be a scare for Indonesia the day before when they knocked out the duo Carnando/Maulana: It was revenge for their defeat in the opening round of the All England Open in Birmingham a week earlier.

Not again with us, Lee/Lee said to themselves in Basel - and they actually did better. As a result, they are in the final round on Saturday and have already secured almost 3000 dollars. Although they will have to share this sum. But that's certainly no problem for twins. (AWS)

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