Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani (born 6 August 1998) is an Indonesian badminton player affiliated with Jaya Raya Jakarta club. He won the gold medal in the men's doubles and team event at the 2025 SEA Games.

Career Born in Blitar in 1998, Isfahani has shown his talent as a badminton player since he was young. In 2015, he won the boys' doubles title at the Indonesia Junior International Challenge tournament.

In 2021, Pahlevi played with Sabar Karyaman Gutama, reaching to the semi-finals in the Orléans Masters and the finals in the Spain Masters.

In 2022, Pahlevi and Gutama reached the semi-finals in the Singapore Open and Vietnam Open.

2023 Pahlevi and his partner, Gutama, started the BWF tour in the home tournament, Indonesia Masters, but lost in the second round from Chinese pair He Jiting and Zhou Haodong. In the next tournament, they lost in the first round of the Thailand Masters from unfamous Malaysian pair Low Hang Yee and Ng Eng Cheong in straight sets.

In May, Pahlevi and Gutama competed in the second Asian tour at the Malaysia Masters, but had to lose in qualifying rounds from Chinese Taipei pair Chiu Hsiang-chieh and Yang Ming-tse. In the following week, they were lost at the quarter-finals of the Thailand Open from 3rd seed and eventual winner Chinese pair Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang in three games.

In early August, Pahlevi and Gutama competed at the Australian Open, but had to lose in the first round from Japanese pair Akira Koga and Taichi Saito in straight games.

In September, Pahlevi and Gutama lost in the final of Indonesia International tournament in Medan from fellow Indonesian pair Berry Angriawan and Rian Agung Saputro in rubber games. In the following week, he competed in the mixed doubles at the Indonesia Masters Super 100 I with Marsheilla Gischa Islami but lost at the second round from fellow Indonesian player Marwan Faza and Jessica Maya Rismawardani in rubber games.

2025 In 2025, Isfahani and his partner Gutama reached the final in 3 tournaments, the Indonesia, Macau, and Hylo Opens. As an independent player, Isfahani, along with his partner Gutama, were called up by the Badminton Association of Indonesia to strengthen the SEA Games squad, and contributed a gold medal in the men's team event. They repeated that success by winning a second gold medal in the men's doubles by beating world number 2 Chia and Soh of Malaysia.

2026 It took six months into the season where Isfahani and Gutama reached their first final which would be at the Australian Open. They lost the match by straight games against Chinese pair of Chen Boyang and Liu Yi.

Achievements

SEA Games Men's doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2025 Gymnasium 4 Thammasat University Rangsit Campus,Pathum Thani, Thailand Sabar Karyaman Gutama Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik 21–14, 21–17 Gold

BWF World Tour (3 titles, 10 runners-up) 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 Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2018 Akita Masters Super 100 Akbar Bintang Cahyono Hirokatsu Hashimoto Hiroyuki Saeki 21–16, 21–6 Winner 2018 Hyderabad Open Super 100 Akbar Bintang Cahyono Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty 16–21, 14–21 Runner-up 2021 Spain Masters Super 300 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Pramudya Kusumawardana Yeremia Rambitan 15–21, 21–18, 14–21 Runner-up 2023 (I) Indonesia Masters Super 100 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Kakeru Kumagai Kota Ogawa 21–18, 21–15 Winner 2024 Orléans Masters Super 300 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Choong Hon Jian Muhammad Haikal 15–21, 21–18, 14–21 Runner-up 2024 Spain Masters Super 300 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Junaidi Arif Yap Roy King 21–18, 17–21, 21–19 Winner 2024 Hong Kong Open Super 500 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Kang Min-hyuk Seo Seung-jae 13–21, 17–21 Runner-up 2024 Macau Open Super 300 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Chen Xujun Liu Yi 18–21, 14–21 Runner-up 2024 China Masters Super 750 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Jin Yong Seo Seung-jae 16–21, 16–21 Runner-up 2025 Indonesia Open Super 1000 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Kim Won-ho Seo Seung-jae 21–18, 19–21, 12–21 Runner-up 2025 Macau Open Super 300 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Junaidi Arif Yap Roy King 20–22, 18–21 Runner-up 2025 Hylo Open Super 500 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Chiu Hsiang-chieh Wang Chi-lin 19–21, 18–21 Runner-up 2026 Australian Open Super 500 Sabar Karyaman Gutama Chen Boyang Liu Yi 15–21, 19–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 6 runners-up) Men's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2017 Iran Fajr International Kenas Adi Haryanto Arjun M.R. Ramchandran Shlok 8–11, 8–11, 9–11 Runner-up 2017 Orleans International Kenas Adi Haryanto Liao Min-chun Su Cheng-heng 12–21, 21–14, 17–21 Runner-up 2017 Indonesia International Kenas Adi Haryanto Wahyu Nayaka Ade Yusuf 18–21, 21–16, 19–21 Runner-up 2017 Singapore International Kenas Adi Haryanto Akbar Bintang Cahyono Giovani Dicky Octavan 21–18, 21–18 Winner 2017 Indonesia International Kenas Adi Haryanto Sabar Karyaman Gutama Frengky Wijaya Putra 18–21, 18–21 Runner-up 2018 Finnish Open Akbar Bintang Cahyono Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto Pramudya Kusumawardana 21–14, 21–17 Winner 2023 (I) Indonesia International Sabar Karyaman Gutama Berry Angriawan Rian Agung Saputro 21–19, 19–21, 17–21 Runner-up

Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2022 Indonesia International Melati Daeva Oktavianti Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja 21–19, 9–21, 21–23 Runner-up BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament

Performance timeline

National team Junior level Team event 2015 Asian Junior Championships B

Senior level Team event 2025 2026 Ref SEA Games G NH Thomas Cup NH GS

Individual competitions Senior level Men's doubles Events 2025 2026 Ref SEA Games G NH Asian Championships 1R 2R World Championships 2R 3R

Tournament BWF Superseries / Grand Prix BWF World Tour Best Ref 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Malaysia Open A NH A 2R QF QF ('26) India Open A NH A 2R 2R ('26) Indonesia Masters 1R 1R NH 1R Q2 A 2R 2R 2R QF 1R SF SF ('26) Thailand Masters NH A 1R 1R NH 1R 1R A 1R ('19, '20, '23, '24) All England Open A SF 1R SF ('25) Swiss Open A NH A SF QF A SF ('24) Orléans Masters NA SF A NH SF A F A F ('24) Thailand Open A 2R A NH 1R QF 1R QF QF ('23, '25) Malaysia Masters A NH A Q1 1R A 1R ('24) Singapore Open A 1R A NH SF A 2R 2R 2R SF ('22) Indonesia Open A NH 1R 1R A SF F SF F ('25) Australian Open A 1R 1R NH 2R 1R A SF F F ('26) Macau Open A 2R 1R A NH F F A F ('24, '25) Japan Open A NH A 2R 1R 2R 2R ('24, '26) China Open A NH A 1R 2R 2R 2R ('25, '26) Chinese Taipei Open A 1R 1R NH A 1R ('18, '19) Korea Masters A 1R A NH A 2R A 2R ('24) China Masters A 1R A NH A F 1R QF F ('24) Indonesia Masters Super 100 NH SF 2R NH A W A W ('23) 2R A Vietnam Open A 2R NH SF 2R A SF ('22) Malaysia Super 100 NH QF A QF ('23) Denmark Open A 2R Q 2R ('25) French Open A NH A QF Q QF ('25) Hylo Open A F Q F ('25) Korea Open A 1R A NH A 1R ('18) Japan Masters NH A 2R A Q 2R ('24) Hong Kong Open A NH A F QF F ('24) Superseries / World Tour Finals SF SF SF ('24, '25) Akita Masters NH W A NH W ('18) Hyderabad Open NH F A NH F ('18) New Zealand Open A SF 2R 2R NH SF ('17) Spain Masters NH A F NH A W NH W ('24) Year-end Ranking 127 110 43 35 98 113 92 60 48 11 8 7 Tournament 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Best Ref

Mixed doubles Tournament BWF World Tour Best Ref 2022 2023 Indonesia Masters Super 100 A 2R 2R ('23) Vietnam Open QF QF QF ('22, '23) Year-end ranking 192 169 136

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