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March 7, 2008
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New Straits Times
03-07-2008
Complacent Kien Keat-Boon Heong pay heavy price again
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

THEIR tendency to take it easy against "unknowns" cost men's doubles Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong dearly again as they crashed out in the first round of the All England on Wednesday but the stark difference this time was coach Rexy Mainaky's reaction.

Criticism and even his resignation have not worked on the pair and Rexy has now taken a different approach -- he is leaving it to Kien Keat-Boon Heong to decide what they want from their careers.
Kien Keat-Boon Heong fell 21-18, 21-19 to Japan's Shuichi Sakamoto-Shintaro Ikeda, the same pair who beat them in the ...

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