PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's challenge has ended in the Canada Open with the exits of shuttlers Eogene Ewe and Wong Ling Ching. 

On Friday, Eogene went down 6-21, 21-11, 9-21 to Victor Lai of Canada in the quarter-finals of the men's singles event in Markham. 

National women's singles player Ling Ching fought hard but it was not good enough to beat Vietnam's Nguyen Thuy Linh and went down 21-17, 20-22, 15-21 in the last eight.