JAKARTA The Olympic gold medalist, Hendra Setiawan, will certainly return to the badminton field next month to appear at the 2025 Senior World Championships.

The championship, which is held under the title Amazing Thailand-Pattaya BWF World Senior Championships, is scheduled to take place from 7-14 September 2025 in Thailand.

The International Badminton Federation (BWF) has released the names of badminton players registered in the event intended for players over 35, 40, 45 years old.

Hendra Setiawan will compete in two numbers at once in the event. He played in mixed doubles with Debby Susanto and the men's doubles with Tony Gunawan.

Debby was one of the mixed doubles mainstays in the 2010s and won the All England title. Tony Gunawan is an idol of Hendra Setiawan.

This is the first time Hendra Setiawan has played in the official BWF event since retiring. Hendra officially hung up his racket at the Indonesia Masters 2025 after announcing it in early December 2024.

During his time as a player, Hendra achieved a number of prestigious achievements. One of them was gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics from the men's doubles with Markis Kido.

In addition, Hendra has also experienced three world titles with Mohammad Ahsan. The title from the last event was obtained in the 2019 edition.


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