Fukushima / Matsumoto Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

India Open 2026

Super 750・New Delhi, India

🥈Seeded 5, four straight wins to the final, runners-up. First round on 14 January: 21-8, 21-10 over Chang Ching-hui / Yang Ching-tun (TPE) in 30 minutes. Second round on 15 January, an all-Japanese tie: 21-11, 21-12 over Nanako Hara / Riko Kiyose in 40 minutes. Quarter-final on 16 January: 21-10, 21-11 over Jeong Na-eun / Lee Yeon-woo (KOR) in 43 minutes. Semi-final on 17 January: 21-16, 21-13 over the second seeds Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS) in 46 minutes. Final on 18 January: 11-21, 18-21 to the top seeds Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN) in 58 minutes. 🔴They won all eight games on the way to the final; the only two they dropped were the two of the final. ⚠️Our own India Open 2027 page records the final; the other four are confirmed by the official BWF day data and the English Wikipedia draw.

Indonesia Open 2026

Super 1000・Jakarta, Indonesia

🏆Seeded 5, they won all five matches and the title. First round on 3 June: 21-18, 21-19 over Lanny Tria Mayasari / Apriyani Rahayu (INA) in 51 minutes. Second round on 4 June: 21-16, 21-14 over Benyapa / Nuntakarn Aimsaard (THA) in 38 minutes. Quarter-final on 5 June: 13-21, 21-12, 21-13 over Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi / Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (INA) in 60 minutes, from a game down. Semi-final on 6 June, an all-Japanese tie: 21-12, 21-12 over Sayaka Hobara / Rui Hirokami in 39 minutes. 🔴Final on 7 June: 21-15, 18-21, 21-18 over the top seeds Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN) in 66 minutes — the pair who beat them in the India Open final in January and the China Open final in July (see five matches in Jakarta). ⚠️Our own Indonesia Open 2027 page records the semi-final and the final; the other three are confirmed by the official BWF day data and the English Wikipedia draw.

Daihatsu Japan Open

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

Seeded 4. Beat Yeung Nga Ting / Yeung Pui Lam (HKG) 19-21, 21-14, 21-19 in the second round and Hinata Suzuki / Nao Yamakita (JPN) 21-14, 21-10 in the quarter-finals. Lost the semi-final to Jia Yifan / Zhang Shuxian (CHN) 15-21, 21-12, 21-23 — a two-point deciding game.

China Open

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

Seeded 4 and four wins in a row to the final. Beat Hsu Yin-hui / Lin Jhih-yun (TPE) 21-19, 21-15, Hinata Suzuki / Nao Yamakita (JPN) 21-16, 21-10, Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS) 21-16, 21-16 and Li Yijing / Luo Xumin (CHN) 14-21, 21-9, 21-15. Lost the final to Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN, top seeds) 14-21, 19-21 — runner-up at a Super 1000.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

Seeded 2 (the seedings were based on the world rankings of 31 July 2026) and byed through the first round. Beat Ong Xin Yee / Carmen Ting (MAS) 21-15, 21-15 in 45 minutes. In the third round, against Rachel Allessya Rose / Febi Setianingrum (INA, 12th seeds), the match ended 9-21, 11-6 — they retired at the interval of the second game while leading 11-6. All three Japanese doubles events ended on the same day. 🔴Corrected on 17 September 2026: we had written the second game as "6-11". The official BWF day data lists the Indonesian pair first, as 21-9, 6-11, so from the Japanese side it is 11-6.

China Masters

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

Named in the Japanese entry announced on 7 August and listed as the 3rd seeds in the BWF draw published on 25 August, but out of the final draw. We re-read the official BWF draw on 1 September 2026 to confirm this. With the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 8th seeds all absent, the women's doubles is played out from the 4th seeds down.

Asian Games 2026

Asian Games・Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan

Silver in the women's team event; out in their first individual match, the second round.
✅ 23 Sep, team semi-final v Korea (match 2) — beat Baek Ha-na and Lee So-hee 21-15, 21-19
❌ 24 Sep, team final v China (match 2) — lost to Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning 16-21, 23-25 (Japan lost 0-3)
❌ 26 Sep, individual second round (seeded 3) — lost to Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly of India 22-24, 18-21

The team quarter-final against India is not listed because we have not recorded which Japanese pair played the doubles.

French Open

Super 750・near Paris, France

Top seeds and defending champions, they won all five matches and retained their title, coming from a game down in the final.
✅ 20 Oct, first round｜Nanako Hara / Riko Kiyose (JPN) 16-21, 21-14, 22-20
✅ 22 Oct, second round｜Lauren Lam / Allison Quynh Lee (USA) 21-12, 21-19
✅ 23 Oct, quarter-final｜Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi / Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (INA) 21-17, 21-18
✅ 24 Oct, semi-final｜Rachel Allessya Rose / Febi Setianingrum (INA, 5th seeds) 21-18, 21-15
✅ 25 Oct, final｜Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS, 2nd seeds) 10-21, 21-17, 21-16

The final score matches our French Open 2026 page (official BWF result). They also came from a game down to win the 2025 final, 17-21, 21-18, 21-15 against Li Yijing / Luo Xumin (CHN). The 2026 edition was the first at the Arena Grand Paris.

The China Open in July was their second Super 1000 final of 2026: four wins from the 4th seeding to reach the final, dropping only the first game of the semi-final and the two games of the final.

• First round — Hsu Yin-hui / Lin Jhih-yun (TPE) 21-19, 21-15, a two-point opening game.
• Second round — Hinata Suzuki / Nao Yamakita (JPN) 21-16, 21-10, an all-Japanese tie.
• Quarter-final — Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS) 21-16, 21-16, the same margin twice.
• Semi-final — Li Yijing / Luo Xumin (CHN) 14-21, 21-9, 21-15: seven points down after one game, twelve up after the next.
• Final — Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN, top seeds) 14-21, 19-21. Runners-up, with the second game decided by two points.

Every score above comes from our 2026 China Open page. At the same tournament Akane Yamaguchi won the women's singles.

Their first final of 2026 came in January, at the India Open (Super 750, New Delhi). Four wins from the 5th seeding took them to the final, and they won all eight games on the way there.

• First round, 14 January — Chang Ching-hui / Yang Ching-tun (TPE) 21-8, 21-10, over in 30 minutes.
• Second round, 15 January — an all-Japanese tie against Nanako Hara / Riko Kiyose, 21-11, 21-12 in 40 minutes.
• Quarter-final, 16 January — Jeong Na-eun / Lee Yeon-woo (KOR) 21-10, 21-11 in 43 minutes.
• Semi-final, 17 January — the second seeds Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS), 21-16, 21-13 in 46 minutes. They beat the same pair again six months later, 21-16, 21-16 in the China Open quarter-final.
• Final, 18 January — the top seeds Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN), 11-21, 18-21 in 58 minutes. 🥈Runners-up. The same pair beat them again in the China Open final, 14-21, 19-21. In between, in June, Fukushima and Matsumoto beat them 21-15, 18-21, 21-18 in the Indonesia Open final (see five matches in Jakarta).

Our own India Open 2027 page records the final; the other four are confirmed by the official BWF day data and the draw on the English Wikipedia article "2026 India Open". Japan were runners-up in men's doubles too — Daiki Midorikawa / Kyohei Yamashita — and the same final can be read from the winners' side on our page for Liang Weikeng / Wang Chang.

Their biggest title of 2026 came in June at the Indonesia Open (Super 1000, Jakarta). Seeded 5, they won all five matches and beat in the final the pair who had beaten them in the January final — and would beat them again in July.

• First round, 3 June — Lanny Tria Mayasari / Apriyani Rahayu (INA) 21-18, 21-19 in 51 minutes, against a home pair.
• Second round, 4 June — Benyapa / Nuntakarn Aimsaard (THA) 21-16, 21-14 in 38 minutes.
• Quarter-final, 5 June — Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi / Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (INA) 13-21, 21-12, 21-13 in 60 minutes. That opening game and the second game of the final were the only two they dropped all week.
• Semi-final, 6 June — an all-Japanese tie against Sayaka Hobara / Rui Hirokami, 21-12, 21-12 in 39 minutes.
• 🏆Final, 7 June — the top seeds Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN), 21-15, 18-21, 21-18 in 66 minutes, the decider won by three points.

🔁All three of their individual finals up to July were against Liu and Tan: the India Open in January 11-21, 18-21 (lost), the Indonesia Open in June 21-15, 18-21, 21-18 (won) and the China Open in July 14-21, 19-21 (lost). Jakarta is the only one in which they took a game, and the only one they won. (Their French Open final in October was against a different pair, and they won it.) They met the same pair again in the women's team final at the Asian Games on 24 September and lost 16-21, 23-25 (recorded on our Asian Games 2026 page).

Our own Indonesia Open 2027 page records the semi-final and the final, and those two scores agree across our page, the official BWF day data and the English Wikipedia draw. The other three are confirmed by the BWF day data and Wikipedia. At the same event Akane Yamaguchi was runner-up in women's singles, and Victor Lai won the men's singles unseeded.

• 2026 — Indonesia Open champions (Super 1000)
  Jakarta, June. Five wins from the 5th seeding, beating the top seeds Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN) 21-15, 18-21, 21-18 in the final. Our Indonesia Open 2027 page records the semi-final and the final.
• 2025 and 2026 — French Open champions (back-to-back)
  In 2025 they came from a game down in the final to beat Li Yijing / Luo Xumin (CHN) 17-21, 21-18, 21-15. In 2026 (20 to 25 October, at a new venue, the Arena Grand Paris) they were top seeds, won five matches and beat Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS) 10-21, 21-17, 21-16 in the final on 25 October — again from a game down.
• 2019 — World Championships — gold (Matsumoto), silver (Fukushima)
  Basel, Switzerland. The final was an all-Japanese one: Matsumoto, with Wakana Nagahara, beat Fukushima, with Sayaka Hirota, to defend the title. The two players who now partner each other were on opposite sides of that net.
• 2018 — World Championships — gold (Matsumoto), silver (Fukushima)
  Nanjing, China. Another all-Japanese final between the same two pairs, with Japan taking both gold and silver in the women's doubles.
• 2017 — World Championships — silver (Fukushima)
  Glasgow, Scotland. Fukushima reached the final with Sayaka Hirota and lost to Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan (CHN) — the first of three finals in a row.
• 2023 — Asian Games — women's doubles bronze (Fukushima)
  Hangzhou, China (held in 2023 after the pandemic delay). Fukushima reached the semi-finals with Sayaka Hirota. Badminton has no third-place play-off, so a place in the last four secures a medal.

At the 2026 Asian Games in Ichinomiya, Aichi, they won silver in the women's team event and lost in the second round of the individual event (see the results above). After that came the October European swing.

At the 2026 French Open, 20 to 25 October, they were the top seeds and defending women's doubles champions, won five matches and retained their title, beating Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS) 10-21, 21-17, 21-16 in the final on 25 October.

🗓️October in Europe: They are in the Japan squad the Nippon Badminton Association named on 11 September 2026 for the Denmark Open and the French Open in women's doubles. At the Denmark Open 2026 (13–18 October, Denmark, Super 750) they were the top seeds; their first-round slot was empty, so the second round was their first match. In that second round on 15 October (early on 16 October Japan time) they retired against fellow Japanese pair Hinata Suzuki / Nao Yamakita when trailing 6-11 in the first game, which ended their tournament (official BWF record; no reason has been given). This match is not in the results list above. At the French Open 2026 that followed (20–25 October, France, Super 750) they won the title, as shown in the results above. They are not in the draw for the HYLO Open 2026 (27 October – 1 November, Germany, Super 500): the official BWF main draw published on 21 October has only three Japanese players, all in men's singles. They were the top seeds in the draw for the Korea Open 2026 (3–8 November, Yeosu, South Korea, Super 500), but withdrew by 2 November (no reason has been given).

🗓️Next is the Kumamoto Masters Japan 2026 (10–15 November, Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium, Super 500). In the official BWF draw we checked on 4 November 2026 they are the top seeds in women's doubles, and their first-round opponents are LI Yi Jing / WANG Yi Duo of China. They withdrew from Korea but are in the Kumamoto draw; late withdrawals are possible, so check the official BWF draw for the latest.

⚠️ Who plays which tournament is not known until the draw is published, and we do not print speculative entries. The May announcement is a provisional squad rather than a final entry. The full calendar is on our 2026 badminton schedule page.

Two three-game results can read the same on a draw sheet and be nothing alike. The Japan Open semi-final, 15-21, 21-12, 21-23, was a nine-point middle game followed by a two-point loss. The China Open semi-final, 14-21, 21-9, 21-15, is the same shape with the opposite ending. And the Indonesia Open final, 21-15, 18-21, 21-18, was the first game they took all year off the pair who beat them in two other finals — and it turned into the title. Keeping the score game by game is what makes that readable afterwards.

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