M'sia Masters: Aaron-Soh say they prefer titles to world number one spot

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After easing into the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Masters, national No.1 men's doubles shuttlers Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik said the world number one ranking is just a number to them and they prefer to win more titles over the elusive No. 1 spot.  They beat Taiwan's Yang Po-han-Liu Kuang-heng 21-13, 21-16 in the second round to set up a clash with Rasmus Kjaer-Frederik Sogaard of Denmark in the quarter-final.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Thank you

00:30If you hope that I can do it, it will be better for you

00:36So, how do you feel?

00:38I feel like we are not thinking about who is

00:42If you look like this, it must be better

00:45There are people who are entering the quarter

00:47At least, we have to secure one spot in Sierra Leone

00:50But that's why we have to look at them

00:52We will wait for them to see who is the opponent

00:58So far, you won the title

01:01How is your physical condition, the focus, mental and all that?

01:06Are you feeling tired?

01:08Okay, this is something I feel like

01:11After back-to-back tournament, we must be tired

01:14I admit that we must be tired

01:16The home crowd here is also feeling pressure

01:19But I think, as I said in the morning

01:22We are being mental, we are trying to figure out

01:26We are trying to do another way to solve it

01:33I think

01:34So, we are not 100% in the mood for playing

01:38So, it's just about figuring out how to play

01:43And, I think

01:45Thank you

01:46I was wondering, today is the role number three

01:48We are going to know how you perform good at this

01:53The gap with you and the other two's at the top

01:57Will you be closer?

01:58So, are you planning?

02:00Maybe not now

02:01But within a short period of time

02:04Can you try to improve your world ranking

02:06To be slowly to top two?

02:08And maybe role number one?

02:10We hope that we can improve

02:14But the ranking is only one small advantage

02:21It's not a very important game in the main double and main sector

02:29So, we are more focused on the game

02:32If you play well, you will go up automatically

02:35We've always been there

02:38We're not only one number one, but we hope we can maintain

02:43But it's not the main target

02:46So, because you are in a good form

02:49You won the title at Asian Championship

02:51Last group at Tadan

02:53Are you hoping to get the one number one or want to catch title?

02:58Because before we know you guys are really hard to get title

03:01So, if you have the option, which one do you prefer?

03:04If you have the option, I feel the title

03:07The ranking is only one number for us

03:10Title is more important than the option that we want

03:16Okay, thank you

03:18Thank you

03:19You're all the best

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03:36To get up, thank you

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