{"id":56337,"date":"2026-05-29T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56337"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:24:38","slug":"home-favourite-loh-kean-yew-advances-to-singapore-badminton-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56337","title":{"rendered":"Home favourite Loh Kean Yew advances to Singapore Badminton Open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Loh Kean Yew kept his hopes of winning a first KFF Singapore Badminton Open title alive after he beat Chinese Taipei\u2019s Chi Yu-jen in the men\u2019s singles quarterfinals on Friday (May 29).<\/p>\n<p>At the Singapore Indoor Stadium, the world No 14 won 16-21, 21-6, 21-8 for his first victory against world No 18 Chi in three meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Former world champion Loh will next face Japan\u2019s Koki Watanabe on Saturday. The world No 19 beat India&#8217;s Lakshya Sen earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Loh\u2019s result on Friday means that he will at least equal his best-ever finish at the Singapore Open. The 28-year-old reached the semi-finals in 2022, but fell to Indonesia\u2019s Anthony Ginting.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his clash with Chi, Loh had to dig deep to first beat India\u2019s Srikanth Kidambi and then H S Prannoy in the round-of-16. Both matches went to a decider.<\/p>\n<p>Loh is Singapore\u2019s sole representative in the tournament after first-round exits for Jason Teh, Yeo Jia Min and the men\u2019s doubles pair of Wesley Koh\u00a0and Junsuke Kubo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/singapore-badminton-open-loh-kean-yew-semifinals-6150166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Loh Kean Yew kept his hopes of winning a first KFF Singapore Badminton Open title alive after he beat Chinese Taipei\u2019s Chi Yu-jen in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--vc-PLUB0--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_52\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/05\/29\/loh_kean_yew_at_singapore_open.jpeg?itok=f-pgAF26","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10590,8758,737,469,12473,5818,3103,23721,22,12474],"class_list":["post-56337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-advances","tag-badminton","tag-favourite","tag-home","tag-kean","tag-loh","tag-open","tag-semis","tag-singapore","tag-yew","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}