Li Shifeng became the first Chinese men's singles to win the championship in the history of the Malaysia Badminton Super 500 Tournament, creating history!

Facing the Indian veteran Srikanth, who started from the qualifiers at the 2025 Malaysia Badminton Super 500 Championships, Li Shifeng, who has a physical advantage, won the men's singles final on the 25th without surprise, becoming the first Chinese men's singles to win the championship in this event.

Li Shifeng

No Chinese man has won the tournament since it was launched in 2009, and world No. 4 Lee Sze Fong made history with a 21-11, 21-9 win over world number 65 Srikanth in the men's singles final of today's Masters.

Srikanth, who is seven years older than Li Shifeng, was recuperating from injury in the second half of last year, so after his comeback this year, the world ranking is too low, and he must start from the qualifiers for Super 500 or above. And he played 7 matches in this year's Malaysia Masters from two qualifiers to the finals, which made Li Shifeng, who started from the first round, play against him in today's men's singles final.

As a result, Lee has won four in a row against Srikanth, as well as four wins in all five meetings. This is also Li Shifeng's first championship after reaching at least the semifinals in 4 consecutive tournaments, and advancing to the semifinals 5 times in 7 tournaments so far this year, breaking the championship drought of nearly half a year. Li Shifeng's last title was at the Kumamoto Super 500 last November. This is also the sixth time that Lee has participated in the final in Malaysia, and finally won the championship for the first time in Malaysia. After reaching the final for the first time in four years since the 2021 World Badminton Championships, Srikanth missed out on winning his first World Tour title, the last time he won the 2017 French Open during the Superseries period.