Right time to leave the national team, says Men’s doubles player Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari
Malaysia’s Men’s Doubles shuttler, Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari, who has resigned from the national badminton squad along with Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif, calls it a good and timely decision to leave the national team and give a chance for the younger players.
The World Number 29, Mohd Tazari has decided to play with the new partner and World Number 25, Mohd Zakry who also resigned from the national squad and split up with his partner Hoon Thien How. Now Mohd Tazari and Mohd Zakry will play as independent shuttlers
and will select the events to participate in with their own choice.
The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) accepted the resignations of both shuttlers and gave them permission to play as independent players. Both shuttlers have been serving the country for almost ten years as national players.
Mohd Tazari said, "We have achieved our maximum as a national senior pair together and with others and it is time to move on. We did have an option until the Olympics but that would be unfair on our partners. They can now look for younger partners to prolong
their careers."
He further added, "There are so many back-up pairs coming through but normally, the senior pairs get to compete more due to qualification for major events and this delays the succession process. Now the back-up pairs will definitely get more opportunities
to compete.”
Now Mohd Tazari wants to prolong his professional career as an independent shuttler with the partnership of Mohd Zakry. The duo has been producing wonderful results in the past before they were split up by the BAM and were paired together with different
partners.
However, now they are together again but not under the supervision and restriction of BAM. Now they are free to select the tournaments without taking permission from BAM.
The veteran duo of Mohd Tazari and Mohd Zakry will play in all major events to earn as much ranking points as possible, which will help them to improve their world standings in the category of Men’s Doubles. They are determined to continue playing well and
are optimistic to put up a strong show in the upcoming events.
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