Will Loh Kean Yew help SG secure a second Gold medal for the Republic this time?

[Hightech88]

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But he is Penang Kia leh..only got his SG citizenship at 18..so he is essentially a bought Foreign Talent, like this got count or not? LOL.

From Penang boy to world champion​

1997: Loh Kean Yew is born in Penang, Malaysia, the youngest of four brothers.

2004: He stops playing badminton - a sport he picked up as a family activity at age five - after being laughed at by his brothers' friends.

2006: He joins third brother Loh Kean Hean to train at a badminton academy in Penang.

2009: An unfancied Loh beats Lee Zii Jia to win the Under-12 final of Malaysia's National Junior Grand Prix.

2010: Enrols at the Singapore Sports School on a scholarship.

2014: Drops out of Republic Polytechnic to pursue badminton full-time.

2015: Receives Singapore citizenship. He wins the men's singles and men's team bronzes at the SEA Games in Singapore.

2016-2018: Loh serves as a transport operator in the army for his national service, earning the rank of corporal first class. He plays for the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association and is named its best sportsman in 2018.

2019: Ranked 125th, Loh stuns Chinese legend and two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan 21-19, 21-18 in the Thailand Masters final to pick up his first Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour Super 300 title.

He also beats two former World Championships bronze medallists - Vietnam's Nguyen Tien Minh and Denmark's Jan O. Jorgensen - before winning a silver medal at the SEA Games in Manila.

2020: Loh adds further scalps, beating Japanese World No. 10 Kanta Tsuneyama at the Indonesia Masters and Taiwanese World No. 2 Chou Tien-chen at the Badminton Asia Team Championships.

2021:
July 27: World No. 42 Loh's first Olympics ends at the group stage. He beats 172nd-ranked Aram Mahmoud but loses to Indonesia's World No. 7 Jonatan Christie.
August-September: Spends a month training with Denmark's Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen and four other top-60 players in Dubai.
Oct 17: World No. 41 Loh beats India's 25th-ranked Lakshya Sen 21-12, 21-16 to win the Dutch Open, an International Challenge event.
Nov 8: World No. 39 Loh wins the Hylo Open in Germany after Malaysia's eighth-ranked Lee retires with a back injury, and becomes the first Singaporean to win a BWF World Tour Super 500.
Nov 28: World No. 26 Loh loses to World No. 2 Axelsen in the Indonesia Open final. Three days earlier, he had shocked Japan's World No. 1 Kento Momota in the opening round.
Dec 19: World No. 22 Loh upsets India's World No. 14 Srikanth Kidambi 21-15, 22-20 in the final to become Singapore's first badminton world champion. He also beat top-ranked Axelsen en route to the title.

Achievements​

BWF World Championships​

Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2021​	Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín, Huelva, Spain​	Srikanth Kidambi​	21–15, 22–20​	Gold	[67]

Asian Championships​

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Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2023​	Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall, Dubai, United Arab Emirates​	Anthony Sinisuka Ginting​	12–21, 8–21​	Silver	[96]

SEA Games​

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Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2015​	Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore​	Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif​	20–22, 15–21​	Bronze	[28]
2019​	Muntinlupa Sports Complex, Metro Manila, Philippines​	Lee Zii Jia​	18–21, 18–21​	Silver	[45]
2021​	Bac Giang Gymnasium, Bắc Giang, Vietnam​	Kunlavut Vitidsarn​	13–21, 13–21​	Silver	[79]

BWF World Tour (3 titles, 6 runners-up)​

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The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[107] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.[108]

Men's singles

Year	Tournament	Level	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2019​	Thailand Masters​	Super 300​	Lin Dan​	21–19, 21–18​	Winner	[43]
2019​	Russian Open​	Super 100​	Shesar Hiren Rhustavito​	17–21, 19–21​	Runner-up	[109]
2019​	Hyderabad Open​	Super 100​	Sourabh Verma​	13–21, 21–14, 16–21	Runner-up	[110]
2021​	Hylo Open​	Super 500​	Lee Zii Jia​	19–21, 21–13, 17–12r	Winner	[37]
2021​	Indonesia Open​	Super 1000​	Viktor Axelsen​	13–21, 21–9, 13–21​	Runner-up	[61]
2022​	India Open​	Super 500​	Lakshya Sen​	22–24, 17–21	Runner-up	[71]
2023​	Korea Open​	Super 500​	Anders Antonsen​	21–11, 11–21, 19–21	Runner-up	[97]
2024​	Thailand Masters​	Super 300​	Chou Tien-chen​	16–21, 21–6, 16–21	Runner-up
2024​	Spain Masters​	Super 300​	Toma Junior Popov​	21–11, 15–21, 22–20​	Winner	[98]

BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 2 runners-up)​

Men's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2014​	Singapore International​	Kantaphon Wangcharoen​	19–21, 21–14, 11–1 retired​	Winner	[27]
2017​	Malaysia International​	Cheam June Wei​	21–19, 21–14​	Winner	[26]
2017​	Singapore International​	Ryan Ng​	21–15, 21–15​	Winner	[36]
2018​	Mongolia International​	Andre Marteen​	15–21, 21–9, 24–22​	Winner	[41]
2018​	South Australia International​	Yu Igarashi​	19–21, 24–22, 11–21​	Runner-up	[111]
2019​	Swedish Open​	Minoru Koga​	11–21, 15–21​	Runner-up	[112]
2021​	Dutch Open​	Lakshya Sen​	21–12, 21–16​	Winner	[54]

 

[NanoSpeed]

No chance. That guy's footwork is messy, and match temperament is bad. He is often caught playing to the gallery, displaying unnecessary hand signals that betray his state of mind.

He wants to act in Mediacorp, I think.

 

[Hightech88]

No chance. That guy's footwork is messy, and match temperament is bad. He is often caught playing to the gallery, displaying unnecessarily hand signals that betray his state of mind.

He wants to act in Mediacorp, I think.

He used to play close to the net which allows him to gain considerable advantage to kill off his opponent while using his superior leg strength and quick footwork to move to the rear en route to winning the World Championship in 2021.

But after that dunno what the fark happen, he starts to position himself far behind with slower anticipation to the front, end up having a hard time to take control of the game from near the net and will always tio pwn when kernah smashed in the sidelines.

Must sack the bloody coach. He better change his style else sure GG in this high-stress tournament.

 

[NanoSpeed]

But after that dunno what the fark happen, he starts to position himself far behind with slower anticipation to the front, end up having a hard time to take control of the game from near the net and will always tio pwn when kernah smashed in the sidelines.

He became famous and started to have girls going after him.

A solid BBBJ a week, the explosive in both legs would have gone to the cockhead.

This Penang kia has no badminton brain ...四肢发达 only.

 

[Aaron carter]

No chance. That guy's footwork is messy, and match temperament is bad. He is often caught playing to the gallery, displaying unnecessary hand signals that betray his state of mind.

He wants to act in Mediacorp, I think.

He can replace aloysius pang, until MINdeaf sends him to repair tanks in australia and he dies like aloy too

 

[Loofydralb]

Wanna bet he will win nothing

 

[red amoeba]

he will not beat the Dane who is number one or two...then he has to beat China....i say the chances of 皮蛋星becoming our PM is higher versus him winning a gold medal in olympics./

 

[NanoSpeed]

he will not beat the Dane who is number one or two...then he has to beat China....i say the chances of 皮蛋星becoming our PM is higher versus him winning a gold medal in olympics./

He positioning is too far back as he aspires to be a defensive and counter attacking player. His reading of the game is very poor and he doesn't know how to switch tactics when the game is not going his way.

He keeps his centre of gravity very high and one tenth of a second is wasted each time when he has to lower his CG to jumpstart his next movement.

 

[eatshitndie]

He positioning is too far back as he aspires to be a defensive and counter attacking player. His reading of the game is very poor and he doesn't know how to switch tactics when the game is not going his way.

He keeps his centre of gravity very high and one tenth of a second is wasted each time when he has to lower his CG to jumpstart his next movement.

you goodminton sexpert?

 

[oliverlee]

the Czech waste time lah. Loh should make it past another 2 rounds

 

[Ralders]

He not a sinkie

 

[NanoSpeed]

you goodminton sexpert?

I learned from Morten Frost Hansen.

 

[laksaboy]

If you want to hire foreign medal mecenaries, get some niggers, give them Sinkie citizenship, and make them compete in athletics track running.

Get the gold medals in some marquee Olympic sports, which neither badminton nor ping pong are.

 

[birdie69]

Wanna bet he will win nothing

He is wasting our tax payer monies!

 

[bobby]

S$1m = RM$4m

 

[Hightech88]

Ok lah, maybe not Gold, but at least a Bronze swee boh?

 

[NanoSpeed]

Ok lah, maybe not Gold, but at least a Bronze swee boh?

He lacks big match temperament and almost zero court craft.

His biggest flaw s 好大喜功 … he imagines himself to be some badminton idol, and carries a 偶像包袱。

 

[laksaboy]

Please no gold medals for Sinkieland. Seeing the Sinkie flag and hearing the Sinkie anthem makes me want to vomit.

 

[NanoSpeed]

Couldn't even win a SEA Games gold, want to think of Olympics.

 

[Hightech88]

Hor Say Liao! LKY beats former All-England and Asia Games Champ Li Shi Feng to advance to quarter-finals! SG got hope liao...
The last time a S'porean advanced to quarter-finals in the Olympics was 20 years ago when Ronald Susilo lost the game.

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Oh wait.. next he will face current World no. 1 Victor Axelson, Hong Kanz liao!

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Seems like now he is back to his forte of moving more towards the front to kill off his opponents while using his turbo-jet leg strength to counter rear court shots..if he maintains this momentum, he could slay the Dragon 安赛龙 (VA)..