Liew Daren | |
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Personal information | |
Country | Malaysia |
Born |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
6 August 1987
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
Handedness | Right |
Men's singles | |
Career title(s) | 3 |
Highest ranking | 10 (7 March 2013) |
Current ranking | 54 (25 May 2017) |
Medal record
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BWF profile |
Liew Daren | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 劉國倫 | ||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 刘国伦 | ||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Guólún |
Liew Daren (born 6 August 1987 in Kuala Lumpur) is a Malaysian professional badminton player. His biggest success to date is having won the 2012 French Open Super Series. He reached a career high ranking of World No.10. He also represented Malaysia competed at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
During the 2012 Thomas Cup quarter-final, he was defeated by Lin Dan from China, but not before he brought it into a rubber game of 21–17, 9–21 and 5–21. His best performance was during the Yonex French Open, where he won his first Super Series title on 28 October 2012 after beating Viktor Axelsen from Denmark with the scores of 21–18 and 21–17.
The 2014 Thomas Cup finals saw Liew facing off against Takuma Ueda from Japan in a gripping battle to break the tie between Malaysia and Japan, who were even at 2–2 as they entered the decisive third Men's Singles match. Liew lost to Ueda after the match went into a rubber game, scoring 21–12, 18–21 and 21–17.
The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.