Prior to this SBA Closed victory, Kiera had already risen steadily to win some local tournaments including Skyworth Tops Arena, MSSD, Allianz KL, TAE Junior, SSA Finals and Olimpik Muda where she had displayed her mettle and game adaptation to overcome her adversaries.
In the SSA finals, Kiera overcame the odds to upset Chanice Tan by 1 point; 30 – 29 in a hard fought battle to emerge Champion in the GSU13 and also the GSU15 category. Going into this final match vs Chanice, Kiera’s head to head record was 0 – 4 in favour of Chanice. Chanice Tan also emerged Champion in the SBA Closed in the GSU15 category.
In the Allianz Finals, Kiera was halted by the country’s GSU13 No. 1, the shuttle queen, Low Zi Yu in the semi finals losing 14 – 21, 15 – 21 and a good bench mark and experience for Kiera.
Kiera will take a short break for Christmas, to recover her tight IT band before resuming her preparation for JET at the end of Feb 2024. I hope I can find some time to share her progress here as I have landed a job and have been extremely busy. Will see. Stay tuned!