Tan Boon Heong

Infobox Badminton player
playername = Tan Boon Heong
陈文宏


caption = Tan Boon Heong pictured here with his double's partner Koo Kien Keat (front)
birth_name = Tan Boon Heong
(陈文宏)
date_of_birth = birth date and age|1987|09|18
place_of_birth = Alor Setar, Kedah
height = height|m=1.80
weight = convert|71|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=on
event = Men's doubles
highest_ranking = 1
date_of_highest_ranking = October 11, 2007
current_ranking = 5
date_of_current_ranking = May 15, 2008
country = flagicon|MAS Malaysia
coach = Rexy Mainaky
handedness = Left
bwf_id = 52703

Tan Boon Heong (Simplified Chinese: 陈文宏, born September 18, 1987 in Alor Setar, Kedah) is a professional badminton player representing Malaysia in the men's doubles event. He and his current doubles partner—Koo Kien Keat—are the current number five men's doubles team in the world.

Career

He was previously paired with Hoon Thien How, with whom he won the World Junior Championships in 2004 and a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Badminton Championships.

Nearing the Doha XV Asian Games in 2006, Rexy Mainaky (the Malaysian doubles coach) decided to split them up and partner Tan Boon Heong with Koo Kien Keat instead. This move, nevertheless, proved to be spot-on as this pair went on to become the Asian Games champion, winning the gold medal in their maiden outing by defeating the then Chinese world champions, Cai Yun-Fu Haifeng, in the quarterfinals, Indonesia's Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan in the semifinals, and finally Luluk Hadiyanto-Alvent Yulianto Chandra, also from Indonesia, in the finals.

They also became the first qualifiers to win the Malaysian Open title in 2007.

Achievements

Men's soubles

Sources

*http://www.badmintonasia.org
*http://www.internationalbadminton.org
*http://bam.org.my/player.php?id=37

External links

* [http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2007/1/22/sports/16642256 World Domination]