Zhou Tiancheng stopped in the top 8 of Nagoya Asian Games badminton men's singles and missed the medal

Zhou Tiancheng. (File photo)

[Special Correspondent Wu Mengru/Nagoya Report] The 36-year-old Taiwanese brother Zhou Tiancheng lost to the 21-year-old Indonesian rising star Alwi Farhan 10:21, 11:21 in the quarterfinals of men's singles badminton at the Asian Games in Nagoya today. He missed the top four and missed the chance to compete for a medal.

Zhou Tiancheng, ranked fifth in the world, won the men's singles silver medal in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, setting the best record in team history. This time he made his debut at the Nagoya Asian Games. However, yesterday he defeated Bangladeshi player Ayman Zaman 21:1, 21:10 in two games in one day, and then took 70 minutes to defeat Indian star Ayush Shetty 21:16, 19:21, 21:17 to advance to the top eight.

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Facing the young Indonesian player Farhan today, although Zhou Tiancheng had a 3-1 advantage in the previous encounters, he did not play easily. He lost the first game with a big score of 10:21. In the second game, after a see-saw in the early stages, the situation took a turn for the worse after the technical timeout. In the end, he lost in straight games in 41 minutes and missed the opportunity to advance to the top four.