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Character Introduction
Tan Boon Heong (September 18, 1987), born in Alor Setar, Kedah, is a Malaysian male badminton player. His doubles team with Koo Kin Kiat is known as the Diamond Team.
Tan Boon Hong started his career as a doubles partner with Yun Tian Hao, and the duo won the 2004 World Youth Championships.
However, as the Doha Asian Games approached in 2006, the coach of the Malaysian national badminton team decided to change Chen Wenhong’s partner to Ku Jianjie, and the new pair immediately did well in the Asian Games, beating the best doubles players from various countries (including China’s Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng and Indonesia’s Malkis Kiddo/Hendra Setiawan) and eventually winning the gold medal. They then went on to win major tournaments such as the 2007 Malaysian Open, the All England Open Badminton Championships and the Swiss Open Badminton Championships. The successive victories made the then Malaysian national team doubles coach, Mr. Meinaki, comment that they were “a team that shines like diamonds”, and the name “Diamonds” eventually spread and is still in use today.
In August 2010, Tan Boon Hong and Koo Kien Keat competed in the Men’s Doubles event at the Badminton World Championships in Paris, winning the second place; in November of the same year, Tan represented Malaysia at the Guangzhou Asian Games, competing in the Men’s Doubles (with Koo Kien Keat) and the Men’s Teams events, winning the Men’s Doubles Silver Medal. On July 28, 2013, YONEX invited Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei, Chan Boon Hong and Kenichi Tan to test the limits of their new racquets. In the end, the left-handed Chen Wenhong used the racket, which was specially developed for extreme kills, to hit a new world record of 493km/h, which was certified by the Guinness World Record, and became the current badminton kill world record holder, with a kill speed of 493km/h.
At the beginning of 2017, Chen Wenhong began pairing up with Indonesian star Hendra Setiawan in the men’s doubles, with the goal of being able to qualify for the World Championships to be held in the middle of the year.
In 2018, Hendra received a solicitation from the Indonesian Badminton Association and returned to the Indonesian national team again to work with his former partner Muhammad Ahsan, while Chen Wenhong declined an invitation from the Malaysian national badminton team due to sponsorship issues, but still showed his willingness to represent his country in major tournaments such as the Thomas Cup.
Equipment Used
NANORAY Z SPEED Bright Orange; NANORAY Z SPEED Yellow; NANOSPEED 9900; BG-65Ti; voltic z-force ltd; VOLTRIC Z-FORCE LTD; 3D CALIBAR 900C; VOLTRIC 80 ETN; Ti 10; Chameleon Ranger 3.0 TD
Major Achievements
- 2017 Australian Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2017 China Badminton Masters Men’s Doubles Quarterfinals
- 2016 Vietnam Badminton Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2016 Thomas Cup Men’s Team 3rd Runner-up
- 2016 Swiss Badminton Golden Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2016 Malaysia Badminton Masters Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2015 Swiss Badminton International Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2015 Netherlands Badminton Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2015 Thailand Badminton Golden Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2015 Sri Lanka Badminton International Challenge Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2014 Incheon Asian Games Badminton Men’s Team 3rd Runner-up
- 2014 Badminton Australia Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2014 Thomas Cup Men’s Team Runner-up
- 2013 France Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2012 London Olympic Games Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2013 Malaysia Badminton Golden Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2012 Hong Kong Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2012 China Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2012 Denmark Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2012 Japan Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2012 Indonesia Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2011 Japan Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2011 Malaysia Badminton Golden Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2011 Badminton India Superseries Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2011 All England Badminton Championships Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2011 Korea Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2010 Thomas Cup Men’s Team Bronze Medal
- 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games Badminton Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2010 World Badminton Championships Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2010 Japan Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2010 Commonwealth Games Badminton Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2010 Commonwealth Games Badminton Mixed Team Champion
- 2010 Malaysia Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2009 Macau Badminton Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2009 China Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2009 France Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2009 Denmark Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2009 World Badminton Championships Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2009 Indonesia Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2009 Swiss Badminton Superseries Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2009 Sudirman Cup Mixed Team Bronze Medal
- 2008 Badminton World Super Series Finals Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2008 Macau Badminton Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2008 China Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2008 France Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2008 Thomas Cup Men’s Team Bronze Medal
- 2007 Denmark Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2007 Macau Badminton Grand Prix Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2007 Philippine Open Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2007 Indonesia Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2007 Badminton Asia Championships Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2007 Swiss Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2007 All England Badminton Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2007 Korea Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2007 Malaysia Badminton Super Tournament Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2006 Doha Asian Games Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2006 Doha Asian Games Badminton Men’s Team Bronze Medal
- 2006 Japan Open Badminton Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2006 Asian Badminton Championships Men’s Doubles Runner-up
- 2006 Thomas Cup Men’s Team Bronze Medal
- 2004 World Junior Badminton Championships Men’s Doubles Champion
- 2004 World Junior Badminton Championships Mixed Team Bronze Medal
