Chou Tien Chen

Jayce September 6, 2024 14 0

Character Introduction

Chou Tien Chen (January 8, 1990) is a male badminton player from Chinese Taipei, specializing in singles, whose world ranking also reached a career-best second place on August 6, 2019, and who won a silver medal in the men’s singles at the 2018 Asian Games.

In July 2012, Zhou Tiancheng participated in the Canadian Badminton Grand Prix and made it to the men’s singles final, eventually winning his first career Grand Prix men’s singles title with a 2-1 (15-21, 21-16, 21-9) comeback victory over his teammate, Yohyun Lin.

At the end of October 2012, Zhou Tiansheng moved to Europe and won his first Grand Prix title at the Bitburger Golden Grand Prix in Germany, defeating his home country’s Mark Zwiebler, and then won the Icelandic International, the Norwegian International, and the Welsh International.

In August 2013, Zhou Tiancheng participated in the World Badminton Championships in Guangzhou, China, playing in the men’s singles event, defeating Slovenia’s Istok Utrusha 2-0 in the first round to advance, but went out in the second round, 1-2 (10-21, 21-19, 10-21) to the 9th seeded player, Denmark’s Jane O. Jorgensen.

In October 2014, Zhou Tiansheng played in the French Superseries, and finally won the men’s singles final against fifth seed Wang Wiming 10-21, 25-23, 21-19, picking up his first career Superseries title and becoming Chinese Taipei’s first Superseries men’s singles champion! Zhou Tiancheng’s world ranking also came to the eighth place with the results of the French tournament, entering the world’s top ten for the first time. He traveled to Germany every other week in search of defending his Bitburger Golden Grand Prix title, defeating world No. 9 third seed Tian Houwei in the semifinals, and then completing a men’s singles trifecta with a straight-sets victory over Ireland’s Scott Evans in the finals (21-17, 21-10), and making it to the quarterfinals of China’s premier superseries in the following week before losing to two-time Olympic gold medalist Lin Dan.

In July 2015, in the semifinals of the Chinese Taipei Badminton Golden Grand Prix, world No. 8 Zhou Tiancheng defeated the famous Lin Dan 21-19, 18-21, 21-16, for his first win in four meetings between the two.

On August 17, 2016, Zhou Tiancheng lost 0-2 to Li Zongwei in the men’s singles quarterfinals of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

On August 28, 2018, Zhou Tiancheng was the runner-up in the men’s singles final of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, losing 1-2 to host Jonathan.

On July 21, 2019, the Badminton World Federation Tour Indonesia Open, won the deciding game 21-15 to win 2-1, topping the Super 1000 level for the first time in his career.

In March 2020, Zhou Tiancheng traveled to England to participate in the All England Open. In the end, he lost 0-2 (13-21, 14-21) to Denmark’s Anselmo Ansalon in the final, finishing second in the men’s singles.

In July 2021, Zhou Tiansheng traveled to Tokyo to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics and was seeded 2nd in the men’s singles event of the badminton tournament. In the last eight, against the reigning gold medalist Chen Long of China, who had lost all nine of his matches prior to the tournament, Zhou Tiansheng ultimately lost 1-2 (14-21, 21-9, 14-21), stopping him in the last eight of the Olympics for the second time.

In August 2022, Zhou Tiancheng traveled to the 27th World Badminton Championships in Tokyo, Japan, and played in the men’s singles event as the fourth seed, eventually losing to Anselmo Ansalon 15-21, 17-21 in the quarterfinals to collect the third place.

In May 2024, Zhou Tiancheng played as the team’s first singles in the quarterfinals of the Thomas Cup team competition against Denmark’s Anselmo, and finally won a thrilling 2:1 (21:19, 14:21, 21:19), and finally Chinese Taipei entered the quarterfinals with 3:1 Denmark, which was the team’s best result since its participation in the tournament.

On August 2, 2024, Zhou Tiancheng suffered a reversal against Lakshya in the Men’s Singles Quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics 21-19,15-21,12-21, stopping in the quarterfinals.

World Ranking – Men’s Singles 10, Week 33, 2024

Olympic Points – Men’s Singles 14, 62498 points

Finals Ranking – Men’s Singles 1, 64520 points