Defeating the second seed, Taipei's emerging pair upset and advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Taipei Open Badminton Championships

Both are 17-year-old Chinese Taipei's new generation of women's doubles Sun Liangqing/Chen Yanfei surprised the outside world on the 8th, and it took only 31 minutes to defeat the second seeds Song Shuoyun/Yu Qianhui 21:16, 21:15, and advanced to the women's doubles quarterfinals of the 2025 Chinese Taipei Open Badminton Championships, setting the best result for the two to participate together.

The new generation of women's doubles Sun Liangqing (right) and Chen Yanfei advanced to the quarterfinals of the women's doubles at the Taipei Open Badminton Championships

Sun Liangqing and Chen Yanfei are all singles players in primary school, because they did not have outstanding results, they decided to cooperate in women's doubles, and they didn't think that they would hit it off and get better and better, and now they can't find opponents in the same age events on the island, and they recently won the gold medal in the women's group in the 2025 Taiwan High School Student Games, and they have dominated for 4 consecutive years. Coach Jian Yujin used to be Taiwan's "Golden Women's Doubles", and she looks forward to the continuous growth of the two, not only in Taiwan, China, but also on the international stage.

Sun Liangqing/Chen Yanfei Guosan participated in the Taipei Tournament for the first time and stopped in the round of 32, reached the round of 16 last year, and rewrote the best in the top 8 this year. Especially the two of them just finished the 2025 Taiwan High School Student Games a few days ago, and now they have an outstanding performance in the adult international competition directly over the level.

Sun Liangqing/Chen Yanfei will face the world No. 31 Indonesian pair Melissa/Rose on the 9th, and the two will certainly want to continue to push forward and gain experience through Taipei to prepare for the Thailand Open next week, which will be their first time competing in the 500 class.