Goh Soon Huat
Character Introduction
Goh Soon Huat (formerly known as Goh Soon Huat) is a Malaysian men’s singles player who was selected to join the Malaysian national reserve team in 2009 and trained under former world champion Yap Cheng Wan.
In 2013, he played in the Malaysian Badminton Golden Grand Prix and reached the final of the men’s singles, but lost 1-2 to Indonesia’s Aranshah Yunus and finished second.
In 2014, Goh Ocarina Valve made his debut in the Thomas Cup team event as a substitute player and eventually took the second place in the Thomas Cup men’s team.
In October 2016, the 26-year-old Goh Soon Phat persisted in the men’s singles for six years but failed to break through the bottleneck, in the Malaysian national badminton team’s technical director Morten Frost’s advice, Goh Soon Phat resolutely decided to switch to another battlefield, partnering Lai Jiemin, who has not been partnered since Wong Fai Ying’s withdrawal from the national team in July, to play in mixed doubles events. After only one month’s preparation, Wu Shunfa and Lai Jiemin defeated Taiwan’s Yang Boxuan/Wen How Yun 2-0 (21-13, 21-17) in the final of the Malaysia Badminton International Challenge held in November of the same year.
In 2018, Ng Soon Phat and Lai Kit Min played in the German Open Badminton Championships and won their first ever Super 300 international title by defeating the Danish powerhouse pair of Niklas Noll/Sarah Thygesen 2-0 (21-14, 22-20) in the mixed doubles final. In July of the same year, he and Lai Jiemin played in the Singapore Open badminton tournament, in the mixed doubles final 2-0 (21-19, 21-18) defeated the tournament’s top seed, the Olympic champion’s Tontowi Ahmad / Liliana Nasir, to win the first professional badminton career Super 500 international tournament championship, it is worth mentioning that this is also the first time the two sides met to defeat the first pair of Indonesian The victory was also the first time they played each other and defeated Indonesia’s No. 1 team.
World Ranking – Mixed Doubles 12, Week 30, 2024
Olympic Points – Mixed Doubles 16, 54668 points
Finals Ranking – Mixed Doubles 4, 55920 points
Equipment Used
THRUSTER F Falcon Black Gold; VBS-66 NANO; JETSPEED S 10 Fluorescent Rose; DriveX 10 METALLIC; P8500 II; AURASPEED HS PLUS; S82; VBS-70; JETSPEED S 10; DriveX 7K
Major Achievements
- 2024 Malaysia Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Champion
- 2024 Swiss Open Mixed Doubles Champion
- 2023 Korea Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2023 Hong Kong Badminton China Open Mixed Doubles Quarter-finalist
- 2023 Sudirman Cup Mixed Team Championships Third Place Member
- 2023 Asian Badminton Championships Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2023 Swiss Open Mixed Doubles Runner-up
- 2022 Denmark Badminton Open Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2022 Singapore Badminton Open Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2022 Korea Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2022 Swiss Open Mixed Doubles Runner-up
- 2020 Badminton World Finals Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2020 Thailand Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals
- 2019 Southeast Asian Games Badminton Men’s Team Silver Medal
- 2019 Southeast Asian Games Badminton Mixed Doubles Silver Medal
- 2019 Korea Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Runner-up
- 2019 Hong Kong Badminton Open China Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2019 China Fuzhou Badminton Open Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2019 All England Open Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2019 German Badminton Open Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals
- 2018 Singapore Open Mixed Doubles Champion
- 2018 Commonwealth Games Badminton Mixed Team Silver Medal
- 2018 German Open Badminton Mixed Doubles Champion
- 2018 Indonesia Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals
- 2018 Malaysia Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals
- 2017 Denmark Badminton Premier Superseries Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals
- 2017 Southeast Asian Games Badminton Mixed Doubles Silver Medal
- 2017 Southeast Asian Games Badminton Men’s Team Silver Medal
- 2017 Thailand Badminton Golden Grand Prix Mixed Doubles Runner-up
- 2017 Malaysia Badminton Masters Mixed Doubles Runner-up
- 2016 Badminton Wales International Mixed Doubles Runner-up
- 2016 Scottish Badminton Grand Prix Mixed Doubles Champion
- 2016 Malaysia Badminton International Challenge Mixed Doubles Champion
- 2016 Thomas Cup Men’s Team 3rd Runner-up
- 2015 China Macau Badminton Golden Grand Prix Men’s Singles Quarter-finals
- 2015 Netherlands Badminton Grand Prix Men’s Singles Quarter-finals
- 2015 Austrian Badminton Open Men’s Singles Quarter-finals
- 2015 Singapore Badminton International Series Men’s Singles Quarter-finals
- 2014 Incheon Asian Games Badminton Men’s Team 3rd Runner-up
- 2014 Thomas Cup Men’s Team Runner-up
- 2013 Malaysia Badminton Golden Grand Prix Men’s Singles Runner-up
- 2010 Malaysia Badminton International Challenge Men’s Singles Quarter-finals