Kuala lumpur: Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) will field a line-up of young players to compete in the Badminton Asia Team Championships (BATC) to be held in Qingdao, China from Feb 3 to 8.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, BAM announced via a post on X that singles player Justin Hoh and national men's doubles, Wan Muhammad Arif Shaharuddin Wan Junaidi-Yap Roy King will be the mainstays for the Malaysian camp at the biennial tournament. Additionally, BAM has also named Aidil Sholeh Sadikin, Eogene Ewe, and Kong Wei Xiang for the men's singles event.

In the men's doubles category, the challenge will also be taken on by Choong Hon Jian-Muhammad Haikal Nazri and Aaron Tai-Kang Khai Xing. The women's squad will feature K. Letshanaa, Wong Ling Ching, Siti Zulaikha Azmi, and Oo Shan Zi in the singles events.

The women's doubles will be led by the pairing of Ong Xin Yee-Carmen Ting, Chong Jie Yu-Vanessa Ng, and Cheng Sui Hui-Tan Zhing Yi. National doubles coaching director Rexy Mainaky mentioned that BAM will field the country's top pairings such as Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik and Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah for the All England Championships in March.

BAM aims to evaluate which young players are prepared to join the national team for the Thomas Cup and Uber Cup in Horsens, Denmark in April. The national men's squad has been drawn in Group D with Indonesia and Myanmar, with Indonesia anticipated to be the toughest challenge in the early stages.

For the women's competition, the squad is in Group W with China, and with only two teams in the group, the national squad is guaranteed to advance to the knockout stage, avoiding a meeting with China in the quarter-finals. Malaysia won the BATC championship in 2022 in Shah Alam and was runner-up in the last edition in 2024, also in Shah Alam, while the women's team's best achievement was reaching the semi-finals in 2020 and 2022.