Mohammad Ahsan/ Hendra Setiawan vs Koo Kien Keat/ Tan Boon Heong | Former World No.1 vs Former No.1

Mohammad Ahsan/ Hendra Setiawan vs Koo Kien Keat/ Tan Boon Heong | Former World No.1 vs Former World No.1

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Mohammad Ahsan (born 7 September 1987) is an Indonesian professional badminton player who specializes in the men's doubles. He competes for PB. Djarum, a badminton club in Kudus, Central Java and joined the club in 2007. He is currently ranked 2nd in the world with Hendra Setiawan. Ahsan and his former doubles partner Bona Septano were ranked as high as sixth in the BWF World Rankings.[1] He was paired with former Olympic gold medalist Hendra Setiawan. They won their first title in 2013 Malaysia Open Superseries after beating Korean pair Lee Yong-dae and Ko Sung-hyun 21–15, 21–13 in the final. The duo split after the 2016 Korea Open Super Series, ending their four years partnership. Ahsan was then partnered with Berry Angriawan.[2] His partnership with Angriawan was short-lived and he was then paired with Rian Agung Saputro. Ahsan and Saputro's first international title was in 2017 China International.[3] They later won silver at the 2017 BWF World Championships.[4] Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan paired back again in early 2018 and won several competition since then.[5] Their nickname is "The Daddies" because both of them has started family and often shows affection towards their children.

Hendra Setiawan (born 25 August 1984) is an Indonesian professional badminton player. He is an Olympic Games gold medalist, four time World Champion, two time Asian Games gold medalist, and two time All England champion. With these, Setiawan has collected all major individual titles in badminton.[1][2] He is considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles players in badminton history.[3]

Setiawan was ranked first in the men's doubles with two different partners. Together with Markis Kido, he achieved the world no. 1 in September 2007, and with Mohammad Ahsan in November 2013.[4] He has collected six gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games with the acquisition of 3 in the men's doubles, and 3 in the team event.[5] Teamed-up with Kido, he won the men's doubles titles at the 2005 and 2009 Asian Championships;[6] the 2006 World Cup;[7] the 2007 World Championships; the 2008 Olympic Games; and the 2010 Asian Games.[2][3]

Setiawan has also played in the mixed doubles, and the best result was in 2010 Indonesia Open finished as the runner-up with his partner Anastasia Russkikh from Russia.[8] He made a new strong partnership with Mohammad Ahsan at the end of 2012.[9] They had won numerous prestigious titles including the 2013, 2015 and 2019 World Championships;[2] the gold medal in 2014 Asian Games, won All England champion twice, and three times BWF Superseries Finals champions.[1] Setiawan holds the record as the oldest player that won the World Championships title at the age of 35.[10]

Koo Kien Keat AMN (born 18 September 1985) is a Malaysian former professional badminton player. He succeeded in both men's and mixed doubles but is best known for his partnership with Tan Boon Heong with whom, he reached a career high ranking of world number 1.[2]

Playing style
Koo moves very fast around the net areas and is adventurous with deceptive shots. He also reacts very well on fast flat exchanges. A favourite formation is when he is on the front court and his partner, the main smasher, attacks from the rear of the court with powerful, left-handed smashes.

Koo and Tan are an explosive and dynamic pair in their game style.

Tan Boon Heong (born 18 September 1987) is a former World No.1 Malaysian professional badminton player in the men's doubles event.[2]

2016
In 2016, Koo and Tan managed to enter the top 15 of the world rankings. However, due to the new Olympic qualification requirement set by the BWF whereby each country can send two representatives for each event only if they are both in the top 8 of the world rankings in their discipline and if they are not then only the highest ranked representative will contest, Koo and Tan narrowly failed to qualify for the Olympics.

2017
Tan and Hendra Setiawan debut tournament at the 2017 Syed Modi International, they managed to advance until the quarter-finals. They reached the final round at the Australian Open but were beaten by third seed Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda from Japan.

2018
Tan was partner with Yoo Yeon Seong from South Korea. Subsequently, he was partner with Kim Sa Rang and they play together in men's doubles in 18/19 Purple League.

2019
Tan was also currently training with Goh V Shem, Tan Wee Kiong, Goh Liu Ying and Chan Peng Soon after their resignation from Badminton Association of Malaysia.

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