Tan Wee Kiong

Jayce September 6, 2024 5 0

Character Introduction

Tan Wee Kiong (May 21, 1989), real name Tan Wee Kiong, also known as Tan Wee 𣚦, was changed to his current name in late 2015 for transit. A Malaysian male badminton player, he grew up in Khun Lan U Ru New Village, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Johor, and moved his family to Tawau in 2001, joining the Malaysian badminton team at the age of 13. He won a silver medal in men’s doubles badminton in the 2016 Olympics, partnering with Goh Wee Seng.

In 2007, Tan Wee Keong teamed up with Wen Kewei to compete in the Asian Junior Badminton Championships Mixed Doubles and eventually won the championship.

In November 2009, Chen Weiqiang and Wen Kewei played in the Malaysia Badminton International Challenge, defeating teammates Mak Hee Chun/Huang Huiling 2-1 (21-6, 13-21, 21-17) to win their first international title.

In August 2013, Chan Wai Keung participated in the World Badminton Championships in Guangzhou, China, playing in the Men’s Doubles event with Yun Tianhao as the 11th seed. They missed the first round of the tournament, then defeated teammates Lin Qinhua/Wu Weishen 2-0 in the second round; however, they were defeated by No. 6 seeds Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng of China 0-2 (19-21, 13-21) in the third round, stopping in the round of 16.
In November of the same year, he and Yun Tianhao competed in the Macau Badminton Golden Grand Prix, winning the men’s doubles final by defeating the tournament’s top seeds, Lee Shengmu/Cai Jiaxin of Chinese Taipei, 2-0 (21-16, 21-19).

In 2014, Tan Wee Keong competed in the Thomas Cup Men’s Team event, switching to partnering with Goh Wee Shen, and helped Malaysia win the Thomas Cup Men’s Team Runner-up title without losing a single match. In August of the same year, he represented Malaysia at the Commonwealth Games badminton tournament in Glasgow, Scotland, where Malaysia won the gold medal in the team event that was played first; and the men’s doubles final with partner Goh Wee Shen defeated the tournament’s No. 3 seed, Danny Bawa Krishnanta/Chat Chia Ja Gat of Singapore, 2-1 (21-12, 12-21, 21-15), and was also the current Commonwealth double winners.

In 2015, the pair suffered a decline in form and were often eliminated in the first two rounds of the tournament, so they changed their names together at the end of 2015, with Goh Wei-Shen changing his name to “Goh Wei-Sheng” and Chen Wei-Shen changing his name to “Chen Wei-Qiang”. ”, after the name change, in December of the same year, the two played in the U.S. Badminton Grand Prix in the men’s doubles final to beat the tournament’s top seed, the Russian powerhouse of the Vladimir Ivanov/Ivan Sozonov, 2-0 (21-14, 21-17), a move to win the title. Because of the change of name, both of them have the character “蔚” in their names, and have since been called the “Double-U蔚组合” by the Malaysian media and the public.

In August 2016, Malaysia’s world No. 12 ranked duo qualified for the men’s doubles badminton event at the Summer Olympics and advanced to the last eight with a clean sweep in the group stage. In the last eight, the pair met the tournament’s top seeds, Lee Yong Dae/Yoo Yeon Seong of South Korea, and fought hard to win a close 3-set match 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 21-19) and advance to the quarterfinals as dark horses[12]. In the semi-finals, the duo defeated Chinese pair Chai Biao/Hong Wei 2-1 (21-18, 12-21, 21-17). In the final, Goh Wee Seng/Chen Wee Keong once again met their group stage opponents, Fu Haifeng, one of China’s previous Olympic doubles gold medalists, and his new partner Zhang Nan, eventually losing 1-2 (21-16, 11-21, 21-23), and missing out on Malaysia’s first Olympic gold medal.

The pair peaked after winning the silver medal at the Rio Olympics, first appearing in Denmark’s premier badminton super tournament in October, where they defeated Thailand’s Bodin Ishara/Nidipong Pampupek 2-1 (14-21, 22-20, 21-19) in the men’s doubles final to win their first Super Series men’s doubles title since they were paired together, and their world ranking on November 10, 2016 climbed to No. 1; following that, by not missing any of the twelve Super Series tournaments of 2016, they qualified for the BWF Super Series Finals with the second-highest number of points and won their first Super Series Finals title with a straight-set two (21-14, 21-19) win over the conference’s top-seeded Japanese duo of Kenshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda in the final.

After entering 2017, the duo did not perform as well as they did last year, with their best results coming in the last eight of the All England Open, India Open and Singapore Open, and were eliminated in the first round of their home tournament, the Malaysian Open.In September 2017, Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) President Nosar announced that Goh Wee Seng and Tan Wee Keong would be split up, with Goh Wee Seng partnering Teo Goh Yew Yew and Tan Wee Keong partnering Ong Yew Sin.

In December 2017, the Malaysian Badminton Federation announced that Wu Weisheng and Chen Weijiang would be re-partnered.

World Ranking – Men’s Doubles 64, Week 30, 2024

Olympic Points – Men’s Doubles 71, 25080 points

Finals Ranking – Men’s Doubles 51, 15800 points