SINGAPORE — There was to be no further joy for Singapore’s shuttlers at the 2016 BWF World Junior Championships yesterday as both its singles representatives fell at the quarter-final hurdle.

Ryan Ng, ranked sixth in the world junior rankings and seeded eighth at the tournament in Bilbao, Spain, lost 21-18, 21-14 to 14th-seeded Indonesia’s Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo in the first meeting between the two 18-year-olds.

Meanwhile, female compatriot Yeo Jia Min also failed in her bid to get into the semi-finals. The 17-year-old, who has taken this year off from her studies to train full time, would have equalled the best-ever result in the competition by a Singaporean female — Gu Juan’s bronze-medal feat in 2007 — had she succeeded. She lost 21-11, 21-11 to Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong.

Yeo, the world junior No 6 and tournament sixth seed, had beaten the 18-year-old Thai in their only previous meeting in September in Indonesia en route to winning the Jaya Raya Yonex Sunrise Junior Grand Prix (under-19) title.

But there was to be no repeat as world junior No 3 Pornpawee’s aggressive style proved too hot to handle.

Singapore’s best result at the world junior level remains Kendrick Lee’s runner-up finish in the 2002 boys’ singles competition.

Yeo and Ng’s exits also means the end of Singapore’s participation at this edition, with its other representatives in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles having already crashed out.

Singapore had finished 10th in the mixed team competition, which was held last week. TEO TENG KIAT