The 2025 Badminton Asian Championships champion "Xie Su Combination" has his eyes on reaching the final at home and getting more prize money

The Malaysian national badminton team's new Asian Championships men's doubles champions, Chia Ding Feng and So Wei Yi, are looking forward to reaching the final of the 2025 Malaysia Badminton Super 500 tournament for the first time at their home venue, and hope to seize the opportunity to increase the total prize money to US$475,000 this year and strive to bring back more prize money.

Chia Tingfeng (front row, from left) and So Wei Yi were ambitious to reach their first home final at the Badminton Masters Malaysia press conference on Wednesday

This year's Badminton Malaysia Super 500 (Badminton Masters Malaysia) will be held at the Atsu Stadium from 20 to 25 May, with the total prize fund increased from US$420,000 to US$475,000.

When the world No. 4 Xie Su team attended the press conference of the Malaysia Badminton Masters on the 16th local time, they set the goal of reaching the final of the home tournament for the first time. "The prize money for this year's competition has also been increased, which adds to our motivation and hopefully we will be able to take home more prize money." So hopes that the home fans will come to support them and enjoy their games.

In addition to the Xie Su pair, Malaysia also has two other very strong men's doubles teams, the world's No. 2 libero "Fei Ting" Goh Shi Fei and No. Neu Zuting, and "Cong Wen" Wan Wei Cong and Zheng Kaiwen in the competition. Su Weiyi said: "I think everyone has high expectations for us, that's for sure. But we have experience with that. I think we just need to be stable. I think we're strong enough to face that, we just need to be consistent and keep facing all the opponents. ”

On the other hand, Malaysia's mixed doubles 'Rong Yun' Koh Bang Rong and Chung Shu Yun are interested in playing at home and want to put in the best performances, although they have not been doing well this year, but they see it as a process.

"For us, it's a process now. We always need to go through that. So for me, I think the most important thing is our mental health, and then we're definitely going to come back stronger. ”