Li Jiahao lost to Kunlavut, the world's No. 1 brother, and missed the top 8 of the 2025 Indonesia Open Badminton Championships

Chinese Taipei men's singles player Li Jiahao faced the new world champion Thailand's Kunlavut at the Super 1000 Series 2025 Indonesia Open Badminton Championships on the 5th. In this battle, Li Jiahao once led in the second game, but failed to hold the advantage, and finally lost 10:21, 17:21, and missed the top 8 of men's singles.

Chinese Taipei men's singles player Li Jiahao

Li Jiahao fell into a deep ebb after winning the runner-up in the All England Open this season, and only on the 4th did he defeat the bitter Chinese player Lu Guangzu 22:20, 24:26, 21:13, and rewrite the battle record to 2 wins and 7 defeats.

After being crowned king at the Singapore Open last week, Kunlavut officially squeezed out China's Shi Yuqi this week to become the world's king and the second-youngest world champion in history.

In the face of the hot Kunlavut in the first game, Li Jiahao made too many mistakes in the first game, so that the new king quickly widened the gap, but Li Jiahao entered the second game to readjust the crosshair, 2:5 behind and played a wave of 8:1 offensive, and entered the technical timeout at 11:9, but Kunlavut scored 3 points in a row after the pause, although Li Jiahao played a lot of good shots to grab the score, but at 17:17 consecutive mistakes dropped points, and could only swallow the defeat in straight games.

After Li Jiahao is out, Chinese Taipei men's singles in Indonesia is left with the world's No. 7 brother Zhou Tiancheng still has a chance to fight, he will face the world No. 20 French player Popov in the round of 16, Zhou Tiancheng led with 4 wins and 2 defeats in his career, but the last time they met was this year's Swiss Open, Zhou Tiancheng was reversed by his opponent in 3 games.