The 2021 Badminton World Championships witnessed Singapore's 24-year-old Luo Jianyou soaring to the sky and winning the men's singles championship, achieving a breakthrough for Singapore's first badminton world championship in history. This achievement and honor should logically be the highest honor and commendation at the official level. But unfortunately, Luo Jianyou did not receive any official prize money for this hard-won badminton world championship. For such a situation, Singapore's businessmen could not continue, and finally the five businessmen raised 50,000 Singapore dollars (about 230,000 yuan) together, and gave Luo Jianyou a reward to thank him for his contribution to the country.
Born in Penang, Malaysia, Luo Jianyou has been training and playing in Malaysia until the age of 13, but then because he did not receive enough attention, he left Singapore to continue his badminton career and received attention from the national team, after which Luo Jianyou represented Singapore and made a certain breakthrough. In 2019, at the Malaysian Masters, he achieved a championship breakthrough, and in the journey to win the championship, he defeated five Chinese badminton players, including Lin Dan, which can be called the national badminton men's singles killer. Since the beginning of this year, Luo Jianyou joined the training camp set up by a Danish brother Acelon and achieved good results.
In the Indonesia series before the World Championships, Luo Jianyou performed well, and he reached the final of the Indonesia Open in one fell swoop, and finally lost to Arcelor and won the runner-up. But at the World Championships, he knocked out Arcelor in the first round, and then won consecutive victories all the way to the final final, when he defeated India's former world number one Srikans and won this significant world championship men's singles gold medal. With the world championship honor, Luo Jianyou's world ranking rose from 22nd to 15th before the competition, and his popularity also increased greatly, and his social media followers rose from 110,000 to 180,000, and Luo Jianyou suddenly became a national idol and hero in Singapore.
Unlike other BWF tour tournaments, the World Championships, although the highest level, do not have prize money, so Luo Jianyou did not receive the corresponding prize money like other Open Championships after winning the World Championship. The Singapore Badminton Association said that there is no official bonus, and can only find business sponsorship, and then announce it when the time is ripe. For the official attitude, many Singaporean businessmen can not stand it, they spontaneously raised funds, and finally raised 50,000 Singapore dollars, as a reward fund to Luo Jianyou, in recognition of his contribution to the country. At the same time, the businessman surnamed Chen expressed the hope that Luo Jianyou can achieve greater breakthroughs and get more honors for Singapore in the future.