Nov 15: FENCING failed to deliver in the 2001 Kuala Lumpur Sea Games but that has not stopped the Malaysia Fencing Federation (MFF) keeping its faith in US-based Fitzgerald Tsen to end the medal drought in Vietnam.
Tsen will be making his Sea Games debut where he is down to compete in the individual foil. Malaysia’s only success in the Sea Games was way back in the 1989 Kuala Lumpur Sea Games when Lim Teng Piao won the individual foil gold medal but it will be a hard act for Tsen to follow in Vietnam, especially since it’s his debut. Tsen, who is an instructor at the Wichita Fencing Academy in Kansas, United States, won the men’s open epee, was third in sabre and fifth in the foil in the Illinois Open earlier year and the MFF believes he is capable clinching a medal when the competition gets under way at the Cau Giay Hall in Hanoi on Dec 10.
Team manager Mok Chek Wlong said that although Tsen has not competed in this region, he has beaten several South East Asian fencers in America and this could give him an advantage.
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