The country had lost every match yesterday - with each of their women’s singles competitors crashing out of the preliminary round stage - but Choong and Leong were able to pick up Malaysia’s first win as they beat Omer Avi-Tal of Panama and Guatemala’s Kevin Soto.

Choong and Leong dropped just one game on their way to the last eight as they were on the right side of an 11-4, 11-3, 6-11, 11-6 scoreline.

The Malaysian pair are due to go up against Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Ting and Ho Kwan Kit in the next round.

In the other men’s doubles last 16 encounter to take place today, South Korea’s Kim Minseok and Kim Donghyun survived a scare to edge past Yang Heng-Wei and Tsai Chun-Yu of Chinese Taipei.

The South Korean duo came into the match-up as the slight favourites and were largely dominant but for a brief lapse of concentration in the second game.

They eventually progressed by virtue of an 11-8, 8-11, 11-6, 12-10 success and their opponents in the last eight will be the formidable Chinese pairing of Zhang Jike and Ma Long, the reigning Olympic singles champion.

There was more difficulty for the Malaysians in the women’s doubles tournament as Lee Rou You and Ng Sock Khim were forced to withdraw due to injury, which gave South Korea’s Lee Yearam and Kim Haeun an easy passage into the quarter-finals.

The tie that did feature action was between Chinese Taipei’s Cheng Hsien-Tzu and Chen Szu-Yu as they proved too strong for the makeshift team of Singaporean Zeng Jian and Chang Li Sian Alice of Malaysia.

The Chinese Taipei players controlled proceedings from the outset and dropped just 11 points on their way to a comfortable 11-1, 11-2, 11-8 victory.

Shan Xiaona of Germany and Hong Kong’s Jiang Huajun await in the last eight.