The third seed, Li Jiahao, lost to an Indian player and suffered a first-round defeat at the 2025 Chinese Taipei Open Badminton Championships

The third seed in men's singles, Li Jiahao, lost to 20-year-old Indian player Ayush Shetty (Ayush Shetty) in the first round of the men's singles of the Super 300 Series 2025 Chinese Taipei Open Badminton Championships on the 7th on the 7th, and stopped in the round of 32.

Men's Singles No. 3 seed Li Jiahao

Li Jiahao made it all the way to the semi-finals at the Taipei Championship last year, setting a personal best result, and was runner-up at the Super 1000 All England Open in March this year, and is currently ranked 15th in the world.

Li Jiahao faced the world's No. 44 Xie Di this time into a hard battle, the first game fought all the way to 16:16 when the opponent played a 4:1 offensive to take the next city, the second game Li Jiahao regrouped, took a 10:6 lead, and entered the technical timeout with an 11:9 advantage, but Xie Di bit the score, Li Jiahao was reversed by the opponent with 5 points in a row when he was leading at 17:15, although he resolved 1 game point, he still lost in straight sets, and fought hard for 50 minutes and missed the promotion.

This is the first time in Li Jiahao's career to face Xie Di, who is 1.90 meters tall, and he pointed out that due to the opponent's tall stature, "the range of the fight is relatively large, and the height of the person (himself) has not been handled well, and the fight is full of discomfort, and the offense and defense have not been done well." He was a big threat to me from his position, his counter-attacks. ”

In the second game, Li Jiahao tried to change the rhythm and tried to dominate the height with speed, but the effect was limited, he said, "At the beginning, it was effective to break through the full with speed, but he gave some balls with more height in the second half, and I wanted to continue to use speed to guide the rhythm in the first few balls, but the effect was not very good." ”

After winning the runner-up in the All England Championships, Li Jiahao was eliminated in the first round of the Super 300 Swiss Open, the Asian Championships stopped in the round of 16, and now he is out of the upset in his hometown of Taipei. ”