Chen Yufei Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Thailand Open

Super 500・Bangkok, Thailand (Nimibutr Stadium)

Seeded 2nd, she reached the final. We hold two of her matches here: the semi-final against Hina Akechi (JPN), 21-17, 21-19, and the final against Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, top seed), 14-21, 18-21. ⚠️We hold nothing from the first round to the quarter-final — our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries — and we do not hold the date or the duration of these matches.

Daihatsu Japan Open

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

She lost the semi-final on 18 July to P. V. Sindhu (IND). Our record reads 19-21, then 10-15 down in the second game when she retired. ⚠️We hold no record of her earlier matches at this event — our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries — and we do not publish results we have not confirmed.

China Open 2026

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

🥈She reached the final on home soil and finished runner-up. We hold the score of all five of her matches. First round: Natsuki Nidaira (JPN) 19-21, 21-19, 21-18 in 91 minutes. Second round on 23 July: P. V. Sindhu (IND) 16-21, 22-20, 21-18 in 89 minutes. Quarter-final on 24 July: Ratchanok Intanon (THA) 15-21, 21-12, 21-13. Semi-final on 25 July: Tomoka Miyazaki (JPN) 21-17, 21-15. Final on 26 July: Akane Yamaguchi (JPN, 3rd seed) 18-21, 16-21. 🔴Three of her four wins here started with a lost opening game.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

She entered as the 4th seed. In the first round on 18 August she lost the opening game and came back to win 18-21, 21-8, 21-11 (we did not record her opponent's name). In the third round on 20 August she lost 21-15, 23-25, 17-21 to Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA, 10th seed), which our tournament page records as one of the upsets of the week. ⚠️We hold no record of her second-round match on 19 August.

The ten matches we recorded for Chen Yufei in 2026 up to 20 August (the World Championships third round) are six wins and four losses (her three Asian Games matches after that are written separately and are not in this count). Four of those six wins came after she had lost the opening game — the four she lost read 19-21, 16-21, 15-21 and 18-21.

• 🏸China Open, first round: Natsuki Nidaira (JPN) 19-21, 21-19, 21-18 in 91 minutes.
• 🔥Second round, 23 July: P. V. Sindhu (IND) 16-21, 22-20, 21-18 in 89 minutes. Our tournament page records that she saved a match point in the second game.
• 🔥Quarter-final, 24 July: Ratchanok Intanon (THA) 15-21, 21-12, 21-13.
• 🏸World Championships, first round, 18 August: 18-21, 21-8, 21-11.
• ✅Two wins started with the opening game: the China Open semi-final on 25 July against Tomoka Miyazaki, 21-17, 21-15, and the Thailand Open semi-final against Hina Akechi, 21-17, 21-19.

Every score above comes from our own tournament pages, and we do not explain why any of it happened. Her four defeats were the Thailand Open final, the Japan Open semi-final (retired), the China Open final and the World Championships third round.

• 2021 — Tokyo Olympics — women's singles gold
  She beat Tai Tzu-ying (TPE) in the final on 1 August in a match of 81 minutes. The 2020 Tokyo Games were postponed by a year and held in 2021. Confirmed by a Badminton Spirit match report dated 2 August 2021 and the medal table on the English Wikipedia article. This was not the Paris Games.
• 2025 — BWF World Championships — runner-up (silver)
  Paris. Akane Yamaguchi beat her in the final; our own 2026 World Championships page records that result as 21-9, 21-13, and the English Wikipedia medal table agrees.
• 2025 — Badminton Asia Championships — women's singles champion
  Ningbo. Her Badminton Spirit career summary and the English Wikipedia medal table agree. She also won the Swiss Open (Super 300) that year.
• 2023 — Asian Games — women's singles silver
  The 19th Asian Games: officially the 2022 Hangzhou edition, held in 2023. She appears as the women's singles silver medallist in the previous-edition table on our Asian Games 2026 page. An Se-young won the final.
• 2022 — BWF World Championships — runner-up (Tokyo)
  Akane Yamaguchi beat her in the final. Badminton Spirit reported it as Yamaguchi retaining her title 2-1, and the English Wikipedia medal table lists the 2022 Tokyo silver.
• 2019 — World No. 1 — her career high
  She reached World No. 1 in women's singles on 17 December 2019. Confirmed by the career-high column of the BWF World Ranking table on English Wikipedia and by a Badminton Spirit article dated 18 December 2019. World rankings are updated every week, so every ranking on this page carries its date.
• 2019 — All England champion, World Tour Finals champion, World Championships bronze
  Badminton Spirit writes that she won five titles in 2019, including the All England and the World Tour Finals. The World Championships bronze in Basel appears both in that summary and in the English Wikipedia medal table.

🥉At the Asian Games 2026 in Ichinomiya, Aichi (20 to 29 September) she took bronze in women's singles and gold in the women's team event. In the team final on 24 September (China 3-0 Japan) she won the third match against Tomoka Miyazaki 21-10, 21-11 (40 minutes), the win that settled the tie. In the individual event she came from a game down to beat P. V. Sindhu (IND) 11-21, 21-18, 21-10 in the quarter-final, then lost the semi-final on 28 September to An Se-young (KOR) 5-21, 12-21 (there is no bronze play-off, so both beaten semi-finalists take bronze). We have not recorded her individual matches before the quarter-final or her other team matches. ⚠️These three matches are not in the ten-match count on this page (scores from Chen's side).

📅Before the Asian Games, the most recent event we recorded for her was the 2026 BWF World Championships, which ended on 23 August with her third-round defeat. We hold no match of hers on our page for the China Masters 2026 (Super 750, Shenzhen) in September.

The European autumn swing is the Denmark Open 2026 from 13 to 18 October in Odense and the French Open 2026 from 20 to 25 October near Paris, both Super 750. The Denmark Open is under way.

⚠️ Our Denmark Open 2026 page follows the Japanese entries and, as of 15 October, does not show her entry or any result of hers (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. We do not guess at names. Linked pages are in Japanese unless marked EN.

The words "runner-up" tell you nothing about the week. At the China Open 2026, three of her four wins came from a game down, and two of them took 91 and 89 minutes. Whether that has anything to do with the straight-games defeat in the final (18-21, 16-21) is not something we can tell you. All we publish is the score and the clock.

🔴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. Here we do not hold anything before her Japan Open semi-final, the name of her World Championships first-round opponent, or her second-round score there. 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 China Open 2026 final is the line that reads "champion"; the same 21-18, 21-16 is the line that reads "runner-up" here. On Tomoka Miyazaki's page the same semi-final is the line that ends her week.

Badsheet records your own matches point by point, builds an official-style scoresheet and charts win rate and shot placement.

📮 Corrections and removal. This is an unofficial summary built from published information. If anything here is factually wrong, or if the player or their team would like this page taken down, please contact us and we will correct or remove it promptly. We do not publish anything about injuries, health or private life.