Liu Yi (; born 7 July 2003) is a Chinese

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player. He won the silver medal at the 2025 Asian Championships partnered with

Chen Boyang Chen Boyang (; born 6 May 2000) is a Chinese badminton player. Partnering Liu Yi, they won a silver medal in the 2025 Asian Championships. He won his first senior title at the Vietnam International Series in 2022 with his partner Liu Yi. C ...

. He was part of China winning team in the 2024 Asia Team Championships. Liu captured his first senior title at the 2022 Vietnam International Series with Chen.

Career

Liu won his first senior international title at the Vietnam International Series with

. A week later, Liu won his second consecutive title at the Malaysia International Series tournament. In March 2023, Liu and Chen won their first BWF Tour 100 title at the

2023 Ruichang China Masters The 2023 Ruichang China Masters was a badminton tournament that took place in the Ruichang Sports Park Gym at Ruichang, China, from 14 to 19 March 2023. The tournament had a total prize pool of $120,000. Tournament The 2023 Ruichang China Maste ...

, and won their first

BWF World Tour The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). The compet ...

title at the

2023 Orléans Masters The 2023 Orléans Masters (officially known as Orléans Masters Badminton 2023 presented by Victor for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place in the Palais des Sports (Orléans), Palais des Sports at Orléans, France, f ...

. In 2024, Liu and Chen became the runner-up in the Thailand Open. Together with his temporary partner

Chen Xujun Chen Xujun (; born 4 March 2001) is a Chinese badminton player. He is affiliated with the Zhejiang team. Career In 2019, Chen clinched bronze in the mixed doubles event at the 2019 Asian Junior Championships with Zhang Chi. A few months la ...

, they captured the Macau Open title. In the beginning of the 2025 season, Liu and Chen reached their first ever final in the BWF World Tour Super 1000 at the Malaysia Open, but the duo were beaten by Korean new pair

Seo Seung-jae Seo Seung-jae (; born 4 September 1997) is a South Korean badminton player. He is the first South Korean player in 24 years to have won two gold medals in a single edition of the BWF World Championships, by winning the mixed and men's doubles e ...

and

Kim Won-ho Kim Won-ho (; born 2 June 1999) is a South Korean badminton player. He was the silver medalists in the Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Mixed doubles, mixed doubles at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2022 Asian Games – M ...

. They then won the silver medal at the 2025 Asian Championships after being defeated in the final by

Aaron Chia Aaron Chia Teng Fong (born 24 February 1997) is a Malaysian badminton player. A world champion, an Asian champion and a double bronze medalist at the Olympic Games, he and his partner Soh Wooi Yik became the first ever world badminton champion ...

and

Soh Wooi Yik Soh Wooi Yik (; born 17 February 1998) is a Malaysian badminton player. A world champion, an Asian champion and a double bronze medalist at the Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games, he and his partner Aaron Chia became the first ev ...

Achievements

Asian Championships

''Men's doubles''

BWF World Tour (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the

Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member ...

(BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Men's doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles)

''Men's doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

References

External links

* * 2003 births Living people Badminton players from Anhui Chinese male badminton players 21st-century Chinese sportsmen {{PRChina-badminton-bio-stub