An Se-young Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Daihatsu Japan Open

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

She played as the top seed. In the first round on 14 July she beat 🇯🇵Hina Akechi 21-6, 21-9 in 32 minutes, and in the second round on 16 July she reached the quarter-finals when her opponent withdrew. ⚠️We hold no record of her quarter-final or anything after it at this event — our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries — and we do not publish results we have not confirmed.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

🏆The top seed won all six of her matches for a second world title, after 2023. She won her first-round match on 17 August (we hold no score for it), then took the second round on 19 August 21-15, 21-11, the third round on 20 August 21-16, 21-10, the quarter-final on 21 August against HAN Yue (CHN, 5th seed) 21-19, 21-12, the semi-final on 22 August against WANG Zhi Yi (CHN, 3rd seed) 24-22, 21-16 and the final on 23 August against Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 2nd seed) 21-17, 21-14. She won all ten games across the five matches we hold scores for, and only once did an opponent pass 20 points.

China Masters

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

🏆The top seed won the title. She won her quarter-final on 4 September, then beat Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 3rd seed) 21-13, 21-15 in 43 minutes in the semi-final on 5 September — the same pairing as the World Championships final on 23 August, and her second win over Yamaguchi in 2026. 🔴In the final on 6 September she beat Tomoka Miyazaki (JPN) 21-17, 21-6 in 45 minutes: the opening game went to 17, the second to six. After the World Championships in August, this is the second title of 2026 in our records. ⚠️We hold no match-by-match scores for her earlier rounds at this event, because our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries. ⚠️The final score comes from two agreeing sources: the BWF match data for the day and the draw on English Wikipedia.

Denmark Open 2026

Super 750・Odense, Denmark

Our Denmark Open 2026 page lists her as the defending women's singles champion from the 2025 edition. ⚠️That 2025 title does not appear in the career summary on her Badminton Spirit profile, so we have only our own page as a source and present it as such. Whether she enters the 2026 edition depends on the entry list.

French Open 2026

Super 750・near Paris, France

Our French Open 2026 page also lists her as the defending women's singles champion, from the 2025 edition. ⚠️Again our own page is the only source for that. Her Badminton Spirit career summary does list a French Open (Super 750) title in 2019.

Korea Open 2026

Super 500・Yeosu, South Korea

This is her home tournament. Our record of the 2025 edition has her as the top seed, beaten in the final by Akane Yamaguchi 18-21, 13-21. The 2026 edition runs from 3 to 8 November at Jinnam Gymnasium in Yeosu. The entry list has not been published, so we do not guess at names.

At the 2026 BWF World Championships in New Delhi in August, An Se-young won all six of her matches as the top seed and took a second world title, after 2023. We hold the scores of five of them as primary records on our tournament page — and she won every one of those ten games.

• 🏸19 August, second round: 21-15, 21-11.
• 🏸20 August, third round: 21-16, 21-10.
• 🔥21 August, quarter-final: HAN Yue (CHN, 5th seed) 21-19, 21-12. Han was World No. 6 on 8 September 2026, down from No. 5 a week earlier.
• 😮22 August, semi-final: WANG Zhi Yi (CHN, 3rd seed) 24-22, 21-16. That opening game is the only one in which an opponent passed 20 points. Wang was World No. 2 on the same list.
• 🏆23 August, final: Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 2nd seed) 21-17, 21-14. Yamaguchi was World No. 3 on the same list and the defending champion.

🔁The two of them have won one final each. In the 2025 Korea Open final, on An's home ground and with An as top seed, Yamaguchi won 21-18, 21-13. Their third meeting in our records is the China Masters semi-final on 5 September 2026, and An won it 21-13, 21-15 in 43 minutes. All three meetings finished in two games: neither has taken the other to a third game. What we hold is only the matches on our own tournament pages — not their full head-to-head.

Every score above comes from our own tournament pages. We hold no score for her first-round match, so we do not publish one. World rankings are updated every week, so every ranking on this page is written with its date.

• 2026 — BWF World Championships — women's singles champion
  New Delhi, 23 August. She beat Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 2nd seed) 21-17, 21-14 in the final for a second world title, after 2023.
• 2024 — Paris Olympics — women's singles gold
  Both her Badminton Spirit career summary and the medal table on the English Wikipedia article list the 2024 Paris gold.
• 2023 — BWF World Championships — women's singles champion
  Copenhagen. Our own 2026 World Championships page records that she became world champion again for the first time since 2023.
• 2023 — Asian Games — gold in women's singles and the women's team event
  The 19th Asian Games: officially the 2022 Hangzhou edition, held in 2023. She also appears as the women's singles gold medallist in the previous-edition table on our Asian Games 2026 page.
• 2022 — BWF World Championships — bronze (Tokyo)
  Listed in her Badminton Spirit career summary. That year she was also runner-up at the All England Open and the Japan Open.
• 2021 — BWF World Tour Finals — champion
  According to her Badminton Spirit career summary she also won the Indonesia Open (Super 1000) that year.
• 2019 — French Open — champion (BWF World Tour Super 750)
  Badminton Spirit describes her arriving that year at 17 and immediately winning on the international circuit. She also won the New Zealand Open and the Korea Masters in 2019.

🏆Her most recent event is the China Masters 2026 (Super 750), which she won on Sunday 6 September — Akane Yamaguchi 21-13, 21-15 in the semi-final and Tomoka Miyazaki 21-17, 21-6 in the final.

The European autumn swing is Denmark Open 2026 from 13 to 18 October in Odense and French Open 2026 from 20 to 25 October near Paris, both Super 750. Our pages for both list her as the defending women's singles champion. Then comes her home event, the Korea Open 2026, from 3 to 8 November in Yeosu.

⚠️ No entry list has been published for any of these. We do not guess at names. Linked pages are in Japanese unless marked EN.

The word "champion" tells you nothing about the week. On the ranking list dated 8 September 2026, the players she beat at the 2026 World Championships were World No. 5 in the quarter-final, World No. 2 in the semi-final and World No. 3 in the final — and across the five matches we hold scores for, she won all ten games.

🔴Our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries. That means a page about a player from another country has more gaps than one about a Japanese player. On this page we do not hold her Japan Open quarter-final or anything after it, the score of her World Championships first round, or any match-by-match score from the China Masters before the semi-final. Where we hold nothing, we say so.

🇯🇵Read alongside a Japanese player's page and the same match appears from the other side. On Akane Yamaguchi's page the 2026 World Championships final is the line that reads "runner-up"; the same 21-17, 21-14 is the line that reads "champion" here. Nozomi Okuhara and Tomoka Miyazaki play the same event.

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