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Lee Zii Jia (born 29 March 1998) is a Malaysian badminton player. He was the men's singles gold medalist at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and won the 2021 All England Open Badminton Champion. Lee is the reigning men's singles Asian champion, winning the title at the 2022 Badminton Asia Championships.

2021: All England Open title
In March, Lee won his first Super 1000 tournament at the All England Open, defeating the defending champion Viktor Axelsen by a score of 30–29, 20–22, 21–9. In July 2021, in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, Lee took part in the men's singles and won against Artem Pochtarov with a score of 21–5 and 21–11. In the subsequent match against Brice Leverdez, he won with a score of 21–17 and 21–5. Lee was eliminated in the round of 16, where he was defeated by Chen Long with a score of 21–8, 19–21, and 5–21. On 7 November 2021, Lee reached the final of Hylo Open, however Lee had to retire due to the injuries he sustained while playing against Singapore's Loh Kean Yew with a score of 21–19, 13–21, 12–17.

2022: Leaving BAM and subsequent ban, Asian champion
In January 2022, there were speculation that Lee had indicated his intention to leave the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM), citing unhappiness with the association, though reasons were never disclosed. He eventually officially resigned on 19 January. In response, Lee was banned for two years from participating in any international tournaments that required BAM's approval as well as any Badminton World Federation (BWF)–sanctioned tournaments. With the public and international players responding negatively on the ban, Lee appealed against the ban on 24 January 2022. The ban was lifted after Lee and BAM met on 25 January 2022, with the terms yet to be revealed.

In May, Lee won his first title of the year, the 2022 Badminton Asia Championships, defeating Indonesia's Jonatan Christie 21–17, 23–21 in straight sets. Lee became the sixth Malaysian men's singles player to win the Asian Championships title. On 22 May 2022, Lee won his first BWF World Tour Super 500 title at the 2022 Thailand Open, defeating China's Li Shifeng with a rubber set score of 17–21, 21–11, 23–21 in 70 minutes.

In June, Lee participated in 3 events: the Indonesia Masters, the Indonesia Open and the Malaysia Open, his home event.

At the Indonesia Masters, Lee, the 5th seed, lost to the 4th seeded Anthony Sinisuka Ginting in the quarter-finals in 3 games, 21–18, 15–21, 16–21.

A week later, Lee lost to Viktor Axelsen, the World No 1 at the Indonesia Open semi-finals, with a score of 21–19, 11–21, 21–23 in 70 minutes.

In late June, Lee took part in the Malaysia Open as the 5th seed. He surprisingly lost to Indonesia's Shesar Hiren Rhustavito in the Round of 16 in 3 games, 19–21, 21–19, 16–21 in an hour and six minutes.

Claiming injury, he decided to skip the Commonwealth Games and focus on the upcoming World Championships which would be held in August. As the fifth seed in World Championships, he lost to China's shuttler Zhao Junpeng in the third round in three games, with a match score of 19–21, 21–11, 19–21. The match lasted for an hour and five minutes.

A week later, Lee lost to Kidambi Srikanth, the Former World No 1 at the Round of 32 of Japan Open, with a score of 20–22, 21-23 in 38 minutes.

On October 22 2022, Lee defeated former World Champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore, with a score of 21-18, 21-15 in 40 minutes and reached the Denmark Open final before losing to Shi Yuqi from China, with a score of 18-21, 21-16, 12-21 in 64 minutes.

A few days later, Lee as 3rd seed in French Open, was surprised with another defeat at the Round of 32, with a score of 18-21, 19-21 to the same opponent, Shesar Hiren Rhustavito from Indonesia that defeated him back in Malaysia open earlier in June.

Australia Open was Lee's last hope of securing a final spot in the World Tour Finals. However, things did not go his way as one of his hands suffered a minor injury during the third game and suffered a loss of 22-20, 15-21, 16-21 to Lu Guang Zu from China in 70 minutes. His loss ended the last hope when his opponent went on to secure the final spot in the World Tour Finals.

2022 was a year of ups and down for Lee, as inconsistency was the main issue that led to his poor performance results in the second half of the year. On the bright side of it, Lee's achievement after leaving BAM has also shown his capability and determination to be a more consistent player in years to come.


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