Chan Peng Soon

Chan Peng Soon (born 27 April 1988) is a Malaysian professional badminton player who has been consistently ranked among the top 10 mixed doubles player in the world with his partner, Goh Liu Ying. Initially trained as a men's doubles player, Chan was switched to the newly-formed mixed doubles discipline in the Badminton Association of Malaysia with Goh named as his partner by their coach, Rexy Manaiky. Since the formation of their partnership, Chan and Goh began to make remarkable breakthrough and became a regular mixed doubles pair in world tournaments. In 2010, they came to prominence when they became champions in the mixed doubles event at the Badminton Asia Championship. Chan and Goh clinched their first Superseries title in Japan Open in 2012 against Indonesian pair and thus completed Malaysia's record of having winners in all 5 disciplines in Superseries tournaments for the sport of badminton, which not many nations have done so. In the same year, Chan and Goh became the first Malaysian mixed doubles pair to reach semi-finals in All-England tournament. They also reached the final of China Open but lost to world No. 1 pair of Xu Chen and Ma Jin. En route to final, they managed to beat a few seeded pairs and their good performance were widely praised. Having achieved many good results in international tournaments, Chan's partnership with Goh achieved their career high of world No. 3 from November 2012 to March 2013.

In June 2014, Lai Pei Jing was named as his new partner while Goh went on hiatus to recover from knee surgery for almost a year. Chan and Lai ranked as high as no. 48 worldwide. Chan resumed his partnership with Goh as of 2015. Since then, they made a strong come back by excelling in the 2015 Sudirman Cup and claiming many other international titles, including the New Zealand Open and runners-up at both Thailand Masters and Malaysia Open in 2016. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Chan and Goh won the silver medal in mixed doubles event after losing to the Indonesian pair of Ahmad and Natsir in the final. However, they had shown steady performance throughout the Olympics champaign, especially in their match against the Chinese pair of Xu Chen and Ma Jin in the semifinal. Following the success of their partnership, Badminton Association of Malaysia has started developing many young players in the discipline who had performed well in international tournaments.

In March 2017, Chan and Goh become the first Malaysian mixed doubles pair to reach the All England Open final since 1955. In the final, they were defeated by 5th seed Lu Kai and Huang Yaqiong in 3 sets.

Chan is married to Malaysian singer, Ester Cham May May since September 2010. They have a son, Milton Chan (b. 2011) and a daughter, Hannah Chan (b. 2015).

Finals: 20 (9 titles, 11 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score
1	2009	Thailand Open	Lim Khim Wah	Choong Tan Fook Lee Wan Wah	20–22, 21–14, 21–11
2	2009	Vietnam Open	Goh Liu Ying	Flandy Limpele Cheng Wen-hsing	23–25, 19–21
1	2010	Badminton Asia Championships	Goh Liu Ying	Yoo Yeon-seong Kim Min-jung	21–17, 20–22, 21–19
2	2011	Malaysia Masters	Goh Liu Ying	Tantowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	21–18, 15–21, 19–21
1	2011	Bitburger Open	Goh Liu Ying	Thomas Laybourn Kamilla Rytter Juhl	21–18, 14–21, 27–25
2	2012	Australia Open	Goh Liu Ying	Chen Hung-ling Cheng Wen-hsing	20–22, 21–12, 21–23
1	2012	Malaysia Masters	Goh Liu Ying	Irfan Fadhilah Weni Anggraini	21–12, 21–14
1	2012	Japan Open	Goh Liu Ying	Muhammad Rijal Lilyana Natsir	21–12, 21–19
2	2012	China Open	Goh Liu Ying	Xu Chen Ma Jin	21-15, 21-17
2	2013	Malaysia Open	Goh Liu Ying	Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen	21-13, 21-18
2	2014	Austrian International	Lai Pei Jing	Robert Mateusiak Agnieszka Wojtkowska	15-21, 21-15, 16-21
1	2015	Polish Open	Goh Liu Ying	Dewalkar Akshay Pradnya Garde	28–26, 21–18
2	2015	Southeast Asian Games	Goh Liu Ying	Praveen Jordan Debby Susanto	18–21, 21–13, 25–23
1	2015	Russian Open	Goh Liu Ying	Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino	21-14, 21-12
1	2015	Mexico City Grand Prix	Goh Liu Ying	Choi Solgyu Eom Hye Won	21-13, 23–21
2	2016	Thailand Masters	Goh Liu Ying	Zheng Siwei Chen Qingchen	17-21, 15-21
1	2016	New Zealand Open	Goh Liu Ying	Zheng Siwei Li Yinhui	21-19, 22-20
2	2016	Malaysia Open	Goh Liu Ying	Tantowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	21-23, 21-13, 16-21
2	2016	2016 Summer Olympics	Goh Liu Ying	Tantowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	14–21, 12–21
2	2017	All England Open	Goh Liu Ying	Lu Kai Huang Yaqiong	21–18, 19–21, 16–21