Liang Weikeng

Liang Weikeng (born 30 November 2000) is a Chinese badminton player.

He was part of Chinese winning team at the 2023 Sudirman Cup, and at the same year won the men's doubles bronze medal at the BWF World Championships partnered with Wang Chang.

Liang and Wang won their first title as a pair in the 2022 Japan Open.

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF).

The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.

Men's doubles

Men's doubles

Boys' doubles

In the junior events, Liang was a member of the Chinese junior squad that won gold medals in the 2018 World Junior Championships in Markham and the Asia Junior Championships in Jakarta.

Liang partnered with Shang Yichen and won a bronze medal at the 2018 BWF World Junior Championships in the men's doubles event.

He also won a silver medal with Shang at the 2018 Badminton Asia Junior Championships after losing to compatriots Di Zijian and Wang Chang in the final.

After a long hiatus, Liang returned to the international court at the 2022 Thailand Open with a new partner, Wang Chang.

They were able to break in the men's doubles competition by beating a few top pairs, including Tokyo 2020 bronze medalists Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik and also world number 1 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo to advance to the final of the Indonesia Masters.

In the final, they lost 10–21, 17–21 to home favorites Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto.

In the next tournament, they defeated the reigning World Champions Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi to reach the semi-finals of the Malaysia Masters, but were then stopped by Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in straight games.

Liang then won his first international title in the Japan Open, where he and Wang defeating Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in the final in three games.

In the first half of the 2023 season, Liang and his partner Wang Chang showed quite significant progress.

They were able to win 2 BWF World Tour titles in India and Thailand, as well as being runners-up in Malaysia and Singapore.

Apart from that, Liang was part of the Chinese team that won the Sudirman Cup.

Liang and Wang's achievements were able to bring them to 2nd place in the BWF world rankings on 13 June 2023.

In August, Liang and Wang won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Copenhagen.

They were defeated by home pair Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in a close rubber game.

The Chinese rising pair then claimed their first ever BWF World Tour Super 1000 title at the China Open.

Men's doubles

Boys' doubles

Boys' doubles