In the quarterfinals of the 2025 Sudirman Cup, Zhou Tiancheng led the Chinese Taipei team against Japan

Chinese Taipei team at 9:30 am on the 2nd in the 2025 Sudirman Cup World Badminton Mixed Team Championships quarterfinals against Japan, the team by Zhou Tiancheng to guard the men's singles, Japan also sent Akane Yamaguchi, Zhen guard women's singles, the winner will advance to the final 4.

Chinese Taipei's first brother Zhou Tiancheng

The top 2 teams in the 4 groups of the Sudirman Cup advanced to the top 8 knockout rounds, with the host China, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia as the first in the group; Thailand, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia and Denmark are second in the group.

According to the regulations, the same group of teams will not meet in the top 8 in the preliminary round, while Chinese Taipei will play against Japan. As for Japan, which was almost defeated in the final round of the preliminaries on the 1st, first lost the mixed doubles and men's singles, and relied on the women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles consecutive victories to retreat from Malaysia and climb to the first place in the group.

Chinese Taipei's first set of mixed doubles was played by Ye Hongwei/Hu Ayafang against Daiki Midorikawa/Arisa Igarashi; In the second set of the men's singles, Chinese Taipei's first brother Chou Tien Cheng faced Watanabe Hanggui, who currently holds three consecutive victories.

Japan took on world No. 4 Akane Yamaguchi in the Women's Singles in the third set, while Chinese Taipei faced world No. 23 Hsu Min-ki, in the fourth set Men's Doubles against 2021 World Championships gold medalists Takuro Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi, and in the finale Women's Doubles, Japan faced world No. 2 Chiyo Shida/Naomi Matsuyama against Chinese Taipei's Hsieh Pei Shan/Hong Enci.