Alwi Farhan

Alwi Farhan Alhasny (born 12 May 2005) is an Indonesian badminton player. He won the gold medal in the men's singles at the 2025 SEA Games. He also part of the Indonesia men's team squad that won the gold medals at the 2023 and 2025 SEA Games. In the juniors, Farhan won the boys' singles title at the 2023 World Junior Championships.

Career 2021–2022 Farhan was promoted into the men's singles first team in 2021. In June 2022, he reached the finals of the Lithuanian International. He obtained a BWF World Junior Championships mixed team bronze medal as part of the Indonesian team. In the individual event, he lost in the second round to eventual bronze medalist Panitchaphon Teeraratsakul

2023–2024 In April, Farhan reached the final of the Osaka International, but was defeated by host player Yushi Tanaka. He was called up for the 2023 SEA Games squad to substitute the late Syabda Perkasa Belawa. Farhan and the men's team later gave tribute to Syabda after winning the team event.

Farhan closed off his final year in the junior circuit by captaining Indonesia's mixed teams in the Asian and the World Junior Championships. While Indonesia finished as runners-up in both mixed team events, Farhan earned his own spotlight at the individual events. He brought home a bronze medal from the Asian Junior Championships and became Indonesia's first ever boy's singles world champion. In the next tour, he lost at the first round of Indonesia Masters Super 100 I to Aidil Sholeh.

2024 was Farhan's first full year at the World Tour. His notable results included reaching the semi-finals in the Macau Open and reaching the finals at both editions of the Indonesia Masters Super 100, winning the one in November. He also made his debut at the Badminton Asia Team Championships and the Thomas Cup, where the team finished in the quarter-finals at the Asia Team Championships and won the silver medal at the Thomas Cup.

2025 Farhan helped Indonesia secure its first ever Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships title, having won all his matches including an upset against veteran Ng Ka Long. He went on to his Sudirman Cup debut as the team's second-ranked men's singles player, making his mark with a victory against world number 3 Anders Antonsen at the group stage and coming home with a bronze medal.

After strings of early exits against more experienced players, Farhan secured his first World Tour title at the Macau Open Super 300. His debut at the BWF World Championships ended in the third round after a tight three-game match against Olympic silver medalist Kunlavut Vitidsarn. At the Korea Open, he overturned a losing situation to Weng Hongyang to reach the semi-finals, where he conceded to eventual champion Jonatan Christie. Unfortunately, he did not manage to join his compatriots at the Australia Open finals, after suffering a reverse sweep in a quarter-final match against Chou Tien-chen.

Farhan wrapped up an eventful year with a second SEA Games team event gold and winning the individual men's singles title against compatriot Zaki Ubaidillah. He rebounded at the Indonesia Masters, snatching Indonesia's sole title at home with a 25-minute victory against Panitchaphon Teeraratsakul. However, he missed out on a consecutive final opportunity after losing at the Thailand Masters semi-final to eventual champion Zaki Ubaidillah.

In his All England Open debut, Farhan finally avenged his Australia Open loss to Chou Tien-chen. However, he lost tamely to Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the quarter-finals. On the next tournament, he moved to the final in the Swiss Open but lost to Yushi Tanaka. Three months later, Farhan won his second title of the year at the Australian Open when he defeated the 73th ranked player, Dong Tianyao in straight games.

Achievements

SEA Games Men's singles Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref

is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.

Men's singles Year Tournament Level Opponent Score Result Ref 2024 (I) Indonesia Masters Super 100 Zaki Ubaidillah 16–21, 14–21 Runner-up 2024 (II) Indonesia Masters Super 100 Aidil Sholeh 21–10, 21–9 Winner 2021 Bangladesh Junior International Iqbal Diaz Syahputra 21–19, 18–21, 21–13 Winner 2022 Alpes U–19 International Bodhi Ratana Teja Gotama 21–12, 21–17 Winner BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament BWF Junior International Challenge tournament BWF Junior International Series tournament BWF Junior Future Series tournament

Performance timeline

National team Junior level Team events 2022 2023 Ref Asian Junior Championships NH S Sudirman Cup A NH B NH World Championships 3R QF

Record against selected opponents Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.

Player Matches Win Lost Li Shifeng 2 1 1 0 Shi Yuqi 1 1 0 +1 Chou Tien-chen 3 1 2 –1 Anders Antonsen 2 1 1 0 Viktor Axelsen 1 0 1 –1 Christo Popov 1 0 1 –1 Lakshya Sen 2 2 0 +2 Prannoy H.S. 2 2 0 +2 Jonatan Christie 2 0 2 –2 Kodai Naraoka 2 1 2 -1 Lee Zii Jia 1 1 0 +1 Loh Kean Yew 1 0 1 –1 Kunlavut Vitidsarn 4 0 4 –4