Chinese Taipei's first brother and second brother won the battle, and Zhou Tiancheng reached the round of 16 of the 2025 Indonesia Open Badminton Championships

Chinese Taipei's two good men's singles players, Zhou Tiancheng and Lin Junyi, met in the first round of the Super 1000 Series 2025 Indonesia Open Badminton Championships on the 4th, and the experienced Zhou Tiancheng defeated Lin Junyi 22:20, 21:18, won two consecutive victories and advanced to the top 16 of men's singles.

Zhou Tiancheng

World No. 7 Chou Tien had the best performance of the season as runner-up at the Taipei Open, but recently the Thailand Open and Singapore Open both ended in the round of 16. Lin Junyi, ranked 14th in the world, finished runner-up at the Orleans Masters this year, and reached the semi-finals at the Swiss Open and the Singapore Open last week.

Zhou Tiancheng and Lin Junyi have faced each other 5 times in international competitions in their careers, Zhou Tiancheng has a slight advantage with 3 wins and 2 defeats, and the last time the other two met was the first round of the Indonesia Open last year, and they didn't expect to meet in the top 32 this year.

Lin Junyi

Lin Junyi made more mistakes because of Zhou Tiancheng, and entered a technical timeout at 11:7, and Zhou Tiancheng came to chase the tie again and took a 15:14 lead, Lin Junyi scored 4 points in a row to overtake, but he made many mistakes on the bottom line, and Zhou Tiancheng also took the lead to 20:18, even if Lin Junyi resolved two game points, but the experienced Zhou Tiancheng still had a high skill and took the lead in the next city.

Zhou Tiancheng and Lin Junyi continued to see-saw in the second game, Lin Junyi first entered the technical timeout at 11:10, but he did make more mistakes in this game, Zhou Tiancheng also took the lead after the pause, and then Lin Junyi hesitated to shoot the ball out of bounds, and Zhou Tiancheng, who held the end point of the game, won in straight games.