Xu Yaqing/Song Youcheng advanced to the quarterfinals of the women's doubles at the 2025 Thailand Open Badminton Championships, setting the best result in the combination

Chinese Taipei's 33-year-old badminton player Hsu Ya-ching began to join hands with young player Song You-mei last year, and the two defeated teammate and sixth seed Xu Yinjun/Lin Zhiyun in women's doubles 21-19, 21-18 at the Super 500 Series 2025 Thailand Open Badminton Tournament on the 16th, advancing to the women's doubles semi-finals and setting a record for the best combined results.

Chinese Taipei Women's Doubles pair Hsu Ya-ching/Song You-s

Hsu and 22-year-old Song started working together last year and reached the quarterfinals of the Indonesia Masters, Thailand Masters and Taipei Open this year.

Xu Yaqing/Song Youyun faced the world No. 20 Xu Yinjun/Lin Zhiyun, and never fell behind in the first game, even if they were chased by Xu Yinjun/Lin Zhiyun to only 1 point, Xu Yaqing/Song Youyun still took the next game. Xu Yaqing/Song Youcheng faced a 2:8 disadvantage in the second game, but soon started chasing points, especially 7:11 into a technical timeout, the two scored 8 points in a row, and finally held the opponent's counterattack, won the second game in a straight row, and also wrote a record of advancing to the top 4 for the first time.

Xu Yaqing, who used to be a women's singles player in the past, has changed a lot of partners since she switched to women's doubles, and of course she has accumulated a lot of competition experience during the period, and now she is cooperating with Song Youming, who has an age gap of more than 10 years, even if the two are very similar to two players of different generations, Xu Yaqing tries her best to use her experience to take Song Youcheng with her, hoping to make Song Youcheng grow rapidly in the next international tournament.

In Men's Doubles, Chinese Taipei's Yang Bohan/Liu Guangheng lost 18-21, 17-21 to Indonesia's top seeds Alfran/Alianto.