How to watch Lee Zii Jia live at 2024 All England badminton championships
Discover how you can watch the Malaysian compete in men's singles at the prestigious BWF All England event in Birmingham, England, with coverage live on Olympic Channel.
Badminton
Malaysian badminton star Lee Zii Jia returns to action this week, following an early exit at the BWF French Open last Wednesday (6 March).
His round of 32 defeat in Paris, with Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen, was over in just 41 minutes.
Ranked world No.10 in men's singles, Lee will be hoping for success at the All England from 12 to 17 March, to gain ranking points that could improve his potential Olympic draw at Paris 2024*.
The 25-year-old will be eyeing a turn of the tide after failing to reach a final in any of this year’s competitions so far.
He suffered a first-round exit at the Malaysia Open, before quarter-final defeats at the India Open and Indonesia Masters in January.
He's a former All England champion, and will be hoping to rediscover the form that took him to the semi-final stage in all of the last four years.
It won't be an easy task, with Lee’s first opponent in Birmingham, UK, being Japan’s world number 6 Naraoka Kodai, with a potential second-round match-up with either Loh Kean Yew or NG Ja Long Angus awaiting him in the event of a victory.
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*As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.
All England Championships 2024: How to watch on TV or live stream online
Wondering how you can watch Lee at the All England Championships in 2024?
The live action can be streamed Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app in many territories.
There will also be coverage on the Badminton World Federation’s YouTube Channel, with the same platform hosting All England’s streams.
In the UK, where the competition is being hosted, TNT Sport will be home to Court 1 action while the BBC will show live quarter-final, semi-final, and final action online via the iPlayer, BBC Sport website and in the BBC app.
Malaysian viewers can watch the action on domestic broadcaster Astro.