Shah Alam City overcomes top opponents to snatch the prized team crown at the prestigious Selangor Open Darts Championships

The Star

12-05-2025

SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Open Darts Championships ended on high to the cheers of home fans when Shah Alam City Team A bagged the coveted team title as the championships tournament came to an end on Sunday.
It was indeed a sweet ending to the tournament which featured many top darters from South-East Asia and Asia in an event held at Ballroom L2, Quayside Mall at Twentyfive 7 from Friday to Sunday.
In an event, which had darters displaying superb skill throughout the three-days of competition, and had Japanese and Philippine darters scooping the main titles apart from the men's doubles title, locals had plenty to cheer when Malaysians were in fine form during the team event.
And after more than 60 hours of competition, the tournament came to a satisfying end after a team from Malaysia (Shah Alam City A) entered the final displaying fine poise and style and take on Brunei's D Amazing Borneo team in the last stage.
In the end, the team from Selangor, roared on by vociferous local supporters, won the final in fine style dispatching the Brunei team 3-0.
The Shah Alam side led by team manager Ahmad Niezam Ahmad Noh comprised 2025 Sabah Open champion Tenooth Sivalingam, who had been on good form since day one of the competition, Mohd Faizal Mohamad, Muhammad Gerald Michael and Khamirul Noorbah.
The tournament also turned out to be a satisfying end for Tenooth. In the first two days of competition, Tenooth had lost in the in the seimfinals stage of both the singles and doubles competitions.
"I'm very proud pf the boys. All their hard work paid off. We started training for more than a month in preparation for the tournament and their dedication was well worth it as we won the top title," said Ahmad Niezam.
"The best part of this victory is that all the team members are home-grown and also are staff of MBSA (Majlis Bandar Shah Alam). So this win is very, very sweet and also it is indeed a victory for Selangor."
As for D Amazing Borneo, the quartet representing the Brunei team were Shamsuddin Zainuddin, Pg Mohamed Pg Matarsad, Abdul Qahar'ukail Shamsul Ariffin and AK Muhd Hamdi Pg Masshor.
Meanwhile, a beaming Selangor Darts Association president C. Pathmanathan said the tournament came to a very satisfying end after seeing a local team and one from Selangor winning the team title.
"Every match in all the competitions was an exciting tussle. It was a fantastic tournament. I believe it will continue to be just as exciting if not better next year," said Pathmanathan.
"Selangor have big plans in store for darts. We are also starting our very team league where we can identify male players for the state side. Besides that, we are also identifying top women players for our state with a series of tournament specially for women darters.
"I think it is also important that we have a good pool of players where we can groom them into international class performers in top tournaments."
Pathmanathan also said the success of the tournament is also due to the dedication on association members and also much support from the Youth and Sports Ministry, Selangor State Government and the other main sponsors. He also gave special thanks to Quayside Mall for being the venue sponsors.
"I take this opportunity to thank all our sponsors, the state government and also the sports ministry. The success here was due to their assistance. I thank all my friends and association members who sacrificed so much in order to make this success," said Pathmanathan.
"Special thanks to Roger Ko (the General Manager - Quayside Mall) for his help in ensuring the success here. We also hope that the mall continue to support the tournament in future."
For the record, the Selangor Open is the first WDF ranked event in Malaysia in 2025 which will be followed by Cosmo Malaysia Open 2025 (WDF silver ranked category) on 22-24th August.
Besides the best bulls-eye specialists from Malaysia, top darters from Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Japan also took part in the tournament. The teams from Sabah and Sarawak were also big in numbers and their darters did well in all the competitions held in the tournament.