Chou Tien Seng missed out on winning the men's singles title at the 2025 Indonesia Open Badminton Championships, but still set a record

On the 8th local time, Chinese Taipei's first brother Chou Tien Cheng missed 3 game points in the first game of the 2025 Indonesia Open Badminton Championships in the Super 1000 series, and finally lost to Danish player Anders Antonsen (Anders Antonsen) 20:22, 14:21, and missed the championship.

Chinese Taipei's first brother Zhou Tiancheng

Zhou Tiancheng won the 2019 Indonesia Championship, and he returned to Fudi again this year, defeating the world No. 4 and Chinese player Li Shifeng one after another, and the top 4 even defeated the new world champion Thailand's Kunlavut in straight games, although he failed to win the gold, he still became the oldest player in history to reach the 1000-level men's singles championship at the age of 35 and 150 days.

Antonsen, ranked No. 3 in the world, defeated China's Shi Yuqi in the top 4 and returned to the final after a six-year absence, and it is worth mentioning that he and Zhou Tiancheng met in the final of the Indonesian tournament that year. Chou and the 28-year-old have won eight of their last 12 meetings, with the most recent meeting coming in the group stage last year, when Chou ended a three-game losing streak.

This time in the final of the Indonesian tournament met Antonsen, Zhou Tiancheng sacrificed a tenacious defense, plus a short encounter in front of the net to lead 11:8, but unfortunately when he led at 20:17, he wasted 3 opportunities to close the door due to too many mistakes, and at 20:20, he also made a judgment error, plus the ball went out of bounds, lost 2 points in a row, and conceded the first game at 20:22.

The game entered the second game, Zhou Tiancheng killed the ball in the back row at 6:3, lost points and once skidd, fortunately there was no big problem, but Antonsen's defense became better, and he would not be too impatient to attack, Zhou Tiancheng was difficult to find a chance to break through, and entered the timeout at 9:11, and due to mistakes, he lost 5 points in a row at 13:15, and it was difficult to recover the decline, and he lost 14:21 and won the runner-up.

The Indonesia Open is a tournament in the BWF World Badminton Tour Super 1000 series, with only 4 matches in the whole year, including the Malaysia Open, All England Open, Indonesia Open and China Open, and Chou Tien Cheng won the 2019 Indonesia Championship, writing the first achievement of Chinese Taipei in men's singles, and now he can reach the final in 6 years, which is enough to prove his strength.