🏸 2026 results
Every 2026 result we record for An Se-young, tournament by tournament. Tournament names link to our summary page for that event. ⚠️Our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries, so for players from other countries we list only the matches we actually hold. Where we hold nothing, we say so, and we do not publish results we have not confirmed.
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of her quarter-final or anything after it at this event — our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries — and we do not publish results we have not confirmed.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.
Asian Games 2026
Asian Games・Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
🥇She entered the women's singles as the top seed and won gold for the second Asian Games in a row. In the semi-final on 28 September she beat CHEN Yu Fei (CHN) 21-5, 21-12, and 🔴in the final on 29 September she beat Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 3rd seed) 21-17, 21-9. She is reported to be the first player to win the Asian Games women's singles at two consecutive editions. In the team event she won the first singles of the semi-final against Japan on 23 September, 21-9, 18-21, 21-11 against Yamaguchi, but Korea lost that tie 1-3 and took bronze (the Asian Games has no third-place play-off). ⚠️We hold no match-by-match score for her singles rounds before the semi-final, and no team match other than that one, because our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries.
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. For the 2026 edition (13 to 18 October) our Denmark Open 2026 page lists her as the top seed in women's singles. It also lists her in the semi-finals on 17 October against Nozomi Okuhara (JPN), scheduled for 21:50 Japan time, so she is through to the last four. That page follows the Japanese entries, so we have not recorded her results up to the quarter-finals (the event runs until the 18th; no semi-final result here yet).
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.
Scores are written from An Se-young's point of view (An's points first). Only matches completed by 29 September 2026 are listed. Matches in progress are not listed.
🏆 Ten games, ten won
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.
🔁Our pages record five meetings with Akane Yamaguchi, and An leads them 4-1. In the 2025 Korea Open final, on An's home ground and with An as top seed, Yamaguchi won 21-18, 21-13 — her only win in our records. An then won the World Championships final on 23 August 2026 21-17, 21-14, the China Masters semi-final on 5 September 21-13, 21-15, the Asian Games women's team semi-final on 23 September 21-9, 18-21, 21-11 and the Asian Games singles final on 29 September 21-17, 21-9 — four in a row in 2026. Only that team match went 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.
🏆 Career highlights
- 2026 — Asian Games — women's singles gold
Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan, 29 September. She beat Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 3rd seed) 21-17, 21-9 in the final and is reported to be the first player to win this title at two consecutive editions. Korea took bronze in the women's team event. - 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.
📅 What's next
🥇Her most recent event is the Asian Games 2026 in Ichinomiya, Japan, from 20 to 29 September, where she won the women's singles gold — CHEN Yu Fei 21-5, 21-12 in the semi-final and Akane Yamaguchi 21-17, 21-9 in the final; Korea took bronze in the team event. Before that she won the China Masters 2026 (Super 750) on Sunday 6 September — 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, now under way with her as the women's singles top seed, 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.
⚠️ Our Denmark Open page follows the Japanese entries, so we have not recorded her results up to the quarter-finals; it lists her in the women's singles semi-finals on 17 October against Nozomi Okuhara (JPN), scheduled for 21:50 Japan time (later if earlier matches overrun), so she is through to the last four (the event runs until the 18th). The French Open 2026 draw came out on 15 October, but our tournament page lists only the Japanese entries' first-round matches, so we have not recorded her place in the draw. No entry list has been published for the Korea Open. We do not guess at names. Linked pages are in Japanese unless marked EN.
👤 Profile
| Name | An Se-young (アン・セヨン) |
|---|---|
| Event | Women's singles |
| Country | South Korea |
| Born | 5 February 2002 |
| From | South Korea |
| Height | 170cm |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| World ranking | World No. 1 as of 13 October 2026 122,287 points from 15 counted events. On 15 September 2026 she was also No. 1, with 121,287 points. She first reached World No. 1 on 1 August 2023. World rankings are updated every week, so this is a dated record, not a current figure. Check the BWF website for the latest list. |
Source — Badminton Spirit player profile (Japanese specialist media) and Badminton Spirit world ranking list, women's singles (dated 8 September 2026) (in Japanese). This profile only uses what the sources above publish. We do not write about injuries, health or private life.
🔍 Keep your own scoresheet
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, any match-by-match score from the China Masters before the semi-final, or her Asian Games singles matches 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.
Badsheet records your own matches point by point, builds an official-style scoresheet and charts win rate and shot placement.
🔗 Related pages
The pages below are written in Japanese, except the ones marked EN.
- BWF World Championships 2026 — From 17 to 23 August, New Delhi. The event An Se-young won.
- China Masters 2026 — From 1 to 6 September, Shenzhen (Super 750). She won it, beating Tomoka Miyazaki in the final.
- Daihatsu Japan Open 2026 — From 14 to 19 July, Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (Super 750).
- Korea Open 2026 — From 3 to 8 November, Yeosu (Super 500). She lost the 2025 final here to Akane Yamaguchi.
- Denmark Open 2026 — From 13 to 18 October, Odense (Super 750). We list her as defending champion. Top seed and into the semi-finals; semi-final on 17 October against Nozomi Okuhara (JPN), 21:50 Japan time.
- French Open 2026 — From 20 to 25 October, near Paris (Super 750). We list her as defending champion.
- Asian Games 2026 badminton — From 20 to 29 September, Ichinomiya, Aichi. She won the women's singles gold here as well, beating Akane Yamaguchi 21-17, 21-9 in the final.
- Akane Yamaguchi — 2026 results EN — Her opponent in the 2026 World Championships and Asian Games finals. An leads our five recorded meetings 4-1.
- Nozomi Okuhara — 2026 results EN — Women's singles. World champion in 2017.
- Hina Akechi — 2026 results EN — She beat Akechi 21-6, 21-9 in the Japan Open 2026 first round on 14 July.
- Tomoka Miyazaki — 2026 results EN — The player she beat in the 2026 China Masters final.
- Han Yue — 2026 results EN — The Chinese player she beat 21-19, 21-12 in the 2026 World Championships quarter-final.
- Wang Zhiyi — 2026 results EN — The 3rd seed she beat 24-22, 21-16 in the 2026 World Championships semi-final.
- CHEN Yu Fei — 2026 results EN — The Chinese player she beat 21-5, 21-12 in the 2026 Asian Games semi-final.
- Thailand Masters 2027 — 16 to 21 February 2027, Bangkok (Super 300). An was runner-up at the 2020 edition as the 3rd seed, losing the final 16-21, 20-22 to Akane Yamaguchi.
- Player pages on this site EN — Every 2026 player page we publish.
- Badminton tournament hub — Every tournament page on this site.
❓ Frequently asked questions
Who is An Se-young and where is she from?
She is a badminton player from South Korea. The player profile on the Japanese specialist site Badminton Spirit gives her English name as AN Se Young, her date of birth as 5 February 2002, her height as 170cm and her playing hand as right. The English Wikipedia article agrees on all three. On her home city the two sources do not agree — Badminton Spirit writes a city name that does not exist among South Korea's metropolitan cities, while Wikipedia says Gwangju — so this page says only South Korea.
What is An Se-young's world ranking?
World No. 1 in women's singles as of 13 October 2026, with 122,287 points from 15 counted events. On 15 September 2026 she was also No. 1, with 121,287 points. The official BWF ranking (Week 42) and the specialist outlet Badminton Spirit's list dated 13 October agree on the place, the points and the number of counted events. She first reached World No. 1 on 1 August 2023. World rankings are updated every week, so please read this as a dated record rather than a current figure, and check the BWF website for the latest list.
Did An Se-young win the 2026 World Championships?
Yes. She entered the 2026 BWF World Championships in New Delhi, held from 17 to 23 August, as the top seed and won all six of her matches for a second world title after 2023. She beat HAN Yue (CHN, 5th seed) 21-19, 21-12 in the quarter-final on 21 August, WANG Zhi Yi (CHN, 3rd seed) 24-22, 21-16 in the semi-final on 22 August, and Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 2nd seed) 21-17, 21-14 in the final on 23 August. Across the five matches we hold scores for she won all ten games, and only in the semi-final did an opponent pass 20 points.
Did An Se-young win the Asian Games 2026?
Yes. She entered the women's singles at the Asian Games 2026 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan, held from 20 to 29 September, as the top seed, and won the final on 29 September against Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 3rd seed) 21-17, 21-9. In the semi-final on 28 September she beat CHEN Yu Fei (CHN) 21-5, 21-12. It is her second Asian Games title in a row, after the 19th edition — officially the 2022 Hangzhou Games, held in 2023 — and she is reported to be the first player to win the women's singles at two consecutive Asian Games. In the women's team event Korea lost the semi-final to Japan 1-3 on 23 September and took bronze, although An won the first singles of that tie against Yamaguchi 21-9, 18-21, 21-11. We hold no match-by-match score for her singles rounds before the semi-final.
Who is better, An Se-young or Akane Yamaguchi?
We do not rank players against each other. What we can say is that our tournament pages record five meetings between them, and An leads 4-1. Yamaguchi won the 2025 Korea Open final 21-18, 21-13. An won the 2026 World Championships final on 23 August 21-17, 21-14, their China Masters semi-final on 5 September 21-13, 21-15, the Asian Games women's team semi-final on 23 September 21-9, 18-21, 21-11 and the Asian Games singles final on 29 September 21-17, 21-9 — four in a row in 2026. Only the team match went to a third game. What we hold is only the matches on our own tournament pages, not their full head-to-head record.
What are An Se-young's 2026 results so far?
In the events we cover with a tournament page: she reached the quarter-finals at the Daihatsu Japan Open (Super 750, Tokyo) in July, won the 2026 BWF World Championships in New Delhi in August, won the China Masters (Super 750, Shenzhen) in September, beating Akane Yamaguchi 21-13, 21-15 in the semi-final on 5 September and Tomoka Miyazaki 21-17, 21-6 in the final on 6 September, and then took the women's singles gold at the Asian Games 2026 in Ichinomiya, Japan, beating CHEN Yu Fei 21-5, 21-12 in the semi-final on 28 September and Yamaguchi 21-17, 21-9 in the final on 29 September. Our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries, so for players from other countries we list only the matches we actually hold. We do not hold her Japan Open quarter-final or anything after it, any match-by-match score from the China Masters before the semi-final, or her Asian Games singles matches before the semi-final.
How old is An Se-young, and what has she won?
She was born on 5 February 2002 and is 24 as of 29 September 2026. Her main titles are the women's singles gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, two BWF World Championships (2023 in Copenhagen and 2026 in New Delhi), the Asian Games women's singles gold twice — the 19th edition, officially the 2022 Hangzhou Games held in 2023, where she also won the team gold, and the 2026 edition in Ichinomiya, Japan, where Korea took the team bronze — and the 2021 BWF World Tour Finals. She took bronze at the 2022 World Championships.
Which tournaments is An Se-young playing next?
As of 29 September 2026 she has just won the women's singles gold at the Asian Games 2026 in Ichinomiya, Japan, beating CHEN Yu Fei (CHN) 21-5, 21-12 in the semi-final on 28 September and Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 3rd seed) 21-17, 21-9 in the final on 29 September. Before that she won the China Masters 2026 (Super 750, Shenzhen), beating Yamaguchi 21-13, 21-15 in the semi-final on 5 September and Tomoka Miyazaki (JPN) 21-17, 21-6 in the final on 6 September. The Denmark Open 2026 (Super 750, Odense), from 13 to 18 October, is under way with her in the draw as the women's singles top seed; she is through to the semi-finals (last four) and meets Nozomi Okuhara (JPN) on 17 October, scheduled for 21:50 Japan time. We have not recorded her results up to the quarter-finals (the event runs until the 18th). After that come the French Open 2026 (Super 750, near Paris) from 20 to 25 October and her home Korea Open 2026 (Super 500, Yeosu) from 3 to 8 November. The French Open 2026 draw came out on 15 October, but our tournament page lists only the Japanese entries' first-round matches, so we have not recorded her place in the draw. No entry list has been published for the Korea Open, so we do not guess at names.
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Last updated . Sources — Badminton Spirit player profile (Japanese specialist media), Badminton Spirit world ranking list, women's singles (dated 8 September 2026), match results recorded on our own tournament pages (each confirmed against two sources), and the BWF World Ranking as of 13 October 2026. Japanese version: https://takeorilab.ybcjr.com/senshu/an-seyoung/