Misbun Sidek - Coaching and Later Playing

Coaching and Later Playing

After retiring, Misbun acting as an assistant coach before taking the decision to venture into car business with friends, Ajib Mohidin. In the same year, he went to the United States to pursue a 'Sport Conditioning' in Daphane, Alabama, for four months.

Misbun was on the coaching staff, and his brother Rashid Sidek played first singles, for the 1992 Malaysia team which captured the Thomas Cup after a 25 year drought. He has coached Malaysia's leading singles players from the 1990s forward including Rashid, the Hashim brothers, Roslin and Muhammad Hafiz, and Lee Chong Wei the mid-1990s Misbun Sidek regained the desire to play competitive badminton, though on a somewhat smaller stage. Between 1994 and 2000 he won seven consecutive Selangor (state) Open championships. In 2002 he won gold medals in age 35 and over men's singles, mixed doubles, and national team at the World Masters Games in Melbourne, Australia.