Leung Wai Keng/Wang Chang was ridiculed for "lying down to win" in the 2025 Sudirman Cup, and the two resolved the embarrassment with a gentle sentence

In the 2025 Badminton Sudirman Cup, which ended on the 4th, Beijing time, the Chinese badminton team faced the South Korean team in the final, and the former won the championship 3:1 after only losing one women's singles. Among them, the men's doubles pair Leung Wai Keng/Wang Chang, who had been ranked No. 1 in the world, was ridiculed by domestic netizens for "lying down to win" because they did not play in the knockout stage. However, when the two interviewed after the game, they resolved the embarrassment with a gentle sentence.

Wong Chang (left) and Leung Wai Hang (right)

The Sudirman Cup is a team competition, each event has 5 events, including men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, the group stage must play all 5 events, to the knockout round, that is, the top 8, on the 5 games to play 3 wins, each game is 3 games 2 wins.

China's Men's Doubles pair of Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang were ranked No. 1 in the world in 2023 and are currently ranked No. 3. In this year's Su Cup, "Liang Wangpei" also appeared, playing against Thailand in the last game of the group stage, defeating the opponent 2:0 in his own game, helping China enter the knockout round.

In the final of the 2025 Sudirman Cup, the Chinese team won all other games except for Wang Zhiyi (pictured), who lost to An Xiying

However, after entering the knockout round, the two have always been scheduled to play in the 4th or 5th game, because after China entered the knockout round, they first defeated Malaysia 3-0 in the top 8, and defeated Japan 3-0 in the top 4, so they did not have a chance to play.

Coming to the final to face South Korea, in addition to Wang Zhiyi's loss to An Xiying in the women's singles, Huang Dongping/Feng Yanzhe won the mixed doubles in the first game, Shi Yuqi swept the opponent in the men's singles, and Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning also defeated the strong opponent Bai Ha Na/Li Shaoxi in the women's doubles in two games. The two won the championship without ending in the knockout round, but they were ridiculed by netizens on Weibo for "lying down to win".

The Chinese team won the 2025 Sudirman Cup

Huang Yaqiong, a former mixed doubles player of the national feathers, turned into a reporter after the game, interviewed Wang Chang and Leung Weikeng, and when she asked the two if they were happy to win the championship, she also added, "Your teammates are too strong, you don't have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, in fact, you really want to play, right?" The two laughed awkwardly at first, and then Wang Chang picked up the badminton-shaped mascot doll in his hand and said, "It's just like this (mascot)!" Leung said: "As long as we are here, we will win 3:0."