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Chou Tien-Chen

周天成　/　ちょう・てぃえんちぇん

Badminton player from Taiwan

January 8, 1990 (age 36)　・　Taipei, Taiwan

badminton player
Olympic competitor

My Take

I find Chou Tien-chen one of the more quietly admirable figures in badminton. What strikes me is that 2016 Chinese Taipei Open title, where he became the first local man in 17 years to win it on home soil since 1999. That kind of breaking-the-drought moment carries a weight that pure rankings never capture. His first BWF Super Series win came two years earlier at the 2014 French Open, in a tense three-game final he edged in the deciding set. At 180 cm, he has the reach for the attacking baseline game, and as a Taipei native and Olympic competitor he has long been a flag-bearer for Taiwanese men's singles.

Overview

Chou Tien-chen (Chinese: 周天成; pinyin: Zhōu Tiānchéng; born 8 January 1990) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He became the first local shuttler in 17 years to win the men's singles title of the Chinese Taipei Open in 2016 since Indonesian-born Fung Permadi won it in 1999. He won his first BWF Super Series title at the 2014 French Open, beating Wang Zhengming of China 10–21, 25–23, 21–19 in the finals.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Chou Tien-Chen
Name (Japanese): 周天成
Reading: ちょう・てぃえんちぇん
Born: January 8, 1990 (age 36)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Horse
Origin: Taipei, Taiwan
Blood type: Private
Height: 180 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: badminton player / Olympic competitor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Taipei Municipal Chengyuan High School
University: National Taiwan Sport University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tienchenchou/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%A8%E5%A4%A9%E6%88%90

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