25-year-old Chinese Taipei men's singles player Li Jiahao recently in the Super 1000 series 2025 All England Open Badminton Championships men's singles final, and Chinese king Shi Yuqi lost 17:21, 19:21 after two games, won the runner-up, creating the best result of his career, Li Jiahao's amazing transformation, also won Shi Yuqi's high praise, the outside world also caused heated discussions about his unique style of play, Li Jiahao revealed in an exclusive interview with the official website of "BWF" that he drew a lot of inspiration from Chinese Taipei's first sister Dai Tzu Ying.
Lee Ka-ho and Tai Tzu Ying
The official website of "BWF" wrote that Li Jiahao showed wonderful feints, flexible hitting and amazing speed at the All England Championships, which put the Chinese king Shi Yuqi into a hard battle, although he finally failed to win the championship, but Shi Yuqi gave Li Jiahao a very high evaluation after the game: "He deserves to win this game." ”
The text also introduced that Li Jiahao comes from a badminton family, his father Li Mouzhou was the head coach of the land bank badminton team, and he has won 15 Chinese Taipei men's singles championships in his playing career, his mother Chen Xiaoli has also won the Taiwan championship many times, and his sister Li Jiaxin is a player who represented Chinese Taipei in the badminton mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics last year.
Li Jiahao said: "Our family is a badminton family, so many people think that I will definitely play well, I have felt such pressure since I was a child, I will try not to let the outside voice affect me, and my family is always his strongest backing." ”
Li Jiahao overcame his demons at this year's All England Championships and staged an amazing dark horse journey, defeating Hong Kong's Lee Cheuk Yiu, Japan's Yushi Tanaka and Kenta Nishimoto all the way, and reversing France's Lanier in the quarterfinals, making him the second Chinese Taipei men's singles player to advance to the All England final after Chinese Taipei's first brother Chou Tien Cheng.
Lanier was interviewed a few days ago and praised Li Jiahao's style of play as unique and difficult to crack. In this regard, Li Jiahao said that he did not have a specific learning object, but drew inspiration from many players, and specifically named Dai Ziying, although he had not trained with her, but they all practiced on the same field, so he had the opportunity to see her training, and naturally learned something.
Li Jiahao had the opportunity to meet Shi Yuqi again in the first round of the Swiss Open Badminton Championships in the Super 300 series this week, but the king of the ball temporarily withdrew, and the opponent became the world's No. 5 Thai player Kunlavut, and the two met for the first time in the international competition, Li Jiahao lost 15:21, 16:21 and missed the next round.