Aaron-Wooi Yik, the 2022 world champions, blew hot and cold en route to losing 17-21, 10-21 to the Chinese pair in 38 minutes at the Istora Senayan.

The fourth-seeded Malaysians began the first game in style to take an 11-8 lead before suddenly losing their rhythm to succumb 17-21 and then left themselves with a mountain to climb in the second game when they trailed 4-12 before going on to lose 10-21.

World No 21 Ji Ting-Hao Dong will face either compatriots Liu Ye Chen and Ou Xuan Yi or top-seeded Indonesians Fajar Alfian and Rian Ardianto in the last four.

Aaron-Wooi Yik, who are ranked second in the world after winning the men’s doubles title at the World Championships last August, crashed out in the second round of the Malaysia Open earlier this month before losing in the final of the India Open last week.

It was not all doom and gloom in the Malaysian camp however when No 1 women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan and M Thinaah checked into the semifinals of the Super 500 tournament.

In today’s quarterfinals, French Open champions Pearly-Thinaah, who are also the sixth seeds, took just 37 minutes to dispose of unseeded Chinese pair Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuan Xuan 21-10, 21-12.

The world No 6 Malaysians will face either India’s Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa or Japan’s Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota in the last four.