JAKARTA - The men's doubles specialist, Fajar Alfian, hopes to achieve success with Muhammad Shohibul Fikri at the 2025 BWF World Tour Finals (WTF) which will take place from December 17-21, 2025 in Hangzhou, China.
This is the fourth time Fajar has appeared in the closing event of the season, but it is the first time he has played with Fikri. In the previous three editions, he was with his old partner Muhammad Rian Ardianto.
"Now with a different partner, of course this will be a new experience for me too. Hopefully I can give my best and hopefully the results can be better than before," said Fajar in a statement received.
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In the previous three editions, Fajar/Rian's journey always stopped in the semifinals, starting from Bangkok, Thailand, in the 2022 edition. At that time, they lost to the pair of Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi from China.
The next two editions they got their fingers bitten in Hangzhou, China. In the 2023 edition their journey was spoiled by Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang (China) and 2024 was stopped by Goh Sze Fei/Nur Izzuddin from Malaysia.
Fajar hopes that with the very tight preparation time for this year's edition, he and Fikri can talk a lot in the midst of the world's top pairs.
"Yesterday, personally, I also had some agendas, but, yes, we just maximized it. We have understood each other what to do in a short time and this is not the first time we have been in this situation," he said.
This year, the draw results put Fajar/Fikri in Group B with world number two pair Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik (Malaysia). In addition, there is former world number one Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty (India) and Liang Wei Keng/Wang Chang (China).
The group stage matches will use a round robin system. The two best pairs from each group will continue on to the semifinals.
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