{"id":3427,"date":"2026-01-21T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:14:42","slug":"zii-jia-earns-first-bwf-world-tour-win-in-321-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/zii-jia-earns-first-bwf-world-tour-win-in-321-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Zii Jia earns first BWF World Tour win in 321 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Zii Jia finally bagged his first victory on the BWF World Tour after a 10-month wait, defeating India\u2019s H. S. Prannoy at the 2026 BWF Indonesia Masters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris Olympic bronze medallist claimed a 21-19, 21-11 victory in 35 minutes to reach the round of 16, where he will face Thailand\u2019s Panitchaphon Teeraratsakul, who eliminated Chinese Taipei shuttler Lee Chia-hao.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndonesiaMasters2026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndonesiaMasters2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MS | R32<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAS<\/a>\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe Lee Zii Jia def. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IND?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IND<\/a>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 Prannoy H. S. 21-19 21-11<\/p>\n<p>\u23f1\ufe0f 35m<\/p>\n<p>*Zii Jia secures a straight-set victory over the World No. 38 Prannoy, leveling their head-to-head record to 2-2.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GemilangkanLagi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GemilangkanLagi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BadmintonMalaysia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BadmintonMalaysia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemiMalaysia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemiMalaysia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8We8S0F4zD\">pic.twitter.com\/8We8S0F4zD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BAM (@BA_Malaysia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BA_Malaysia\/status\/2013922402128765184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Asian champion\u2019s previous win dated back to 6 March 2025, when he defeated Kidambi Srikanth at the Orleans Masters.<\/p>\n<p>That victory was one of just two wins he managed throughout the 2025 season, which was disrupted by ankle and back problems.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Orleans Masters, his appearances last year were limited to the All England, Hong Kong Open, China Masters and the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Lee began the 2026 season with first-round exits at both the Malaysia Open and India Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Interview session by shuttletimes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cit&#8217;s so meaningful to me\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cit&#8217;s been almost a year since i last won\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cbecause I&#8217;m still finding my confidence on the court\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DB7mXGRNEs\">pic.twitter.com\/DB7mXGRNEs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anak punguts will win soon \ud83e\udd47\ud83c\udf49\ud83d\udcab (@nals0ul_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nals0ul_\/status\/2013934241982120106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Zii Jia finally bagged his first victory on the BWF World Tour after a 10-month wait, defeating India\u2019s H. S. Prannoy at the 2026 BWF Indonesia Masters on Wednesday. The Paris Olympic bronze medallist claimed a 21-19, 21-11 victory in 35 minutes to reach the round of 16, where he will face Thailand\u2019s Panitchaphon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/zii-jia-earns-first-bwf-world-tour-win-in-321-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zii Jia earns first BWF World Tour win in 321 days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[299,225],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-badminton-en","tag-bwf-world-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}