Sayaka Hobara Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Swiss Open 2026

Super 300・Basel, Switzerland

🆕Women's doubles only at this one. At the Swiss Open she and Rui Hirokami were seeded 8th and played two matches, one win and one defeat. First round, 10 March: CHANG Ching Hui / YANG Ching Tun (TPE) 21-14, 21-16. Second round, 12 March: Francesca CORBETT / Jennie GAI (USA) 12-21, 21-17, 19-21 — she lost the opening game, levelled the match, then came up two points short in the decider. 🔴That American pair also turns up on the other Japanese women's doubles page we keep: Rin Iwanaga / Kie Nakanishi lost to them 20-22, 15-21 in the China Masters second round on 3 September. ⚠️She did not enter the mixed doubles here. 🆕Added on 21 September 2026: both results were already on our own Swiss Open 2027 page as the 2026 results. ⚠️The Nippon Badminton Association's day page for 12 March labels that second round "third round"; English Wikipedia and our own tournament page call it the second round. The opponent, the score and the date agree across all three.

Orleans Masters 2026

Super 300・Orléans, France

🆕Women's doubles only at this one. She and Rui Hirokami were 4th seeds and reached the semi-finals, winning two of their three matches in Orléans. First round, 17 March: a walkover — Ashwini BHAT K. / Shikha GAUTAM (IND) withdrew, so no match was played. Second round, 19 March: Hathaithip MIJAD / Napapakorn TUNGKASATAN (THA) 21-13, 21-10 in 35 minutes. Quarter-final, 20 March: BAO Li Jing / LUO Xu Min (CHN) 16-21, 26-24, 21-17 in 80 minutes — a comeback after losing the opening game; the Nippon Badminton Association's report says they were 10-18 down in the second game. Semi-final, 21 March: LIN Chih-Chun / YANG Chu Yun (TPE) 21-17, 19-21, 18-21 in 64 minutes — beaten after taking the opening game. 🥇That pair lost the final the next day to Japan's Sumire Nakade / Miyu Takahashi (→semi-finals in Orléans). ⚠️She did not enter the mixed doubles here.
🆕Added on 22 September 2026: these results were already on our own Orleans Masters 2027 page as the 2026 results. The Nippon Badminton Association's day pages, the English Wikipedia draw and BWF's official match data agree on the opponent, the score and the date. Match times are from BWF.

Daihatsu Japan Open

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

She entered the women's doubles only here — no mixed doubles. With Rui Hirokami she lost the second round on 16 July to Gabriela Stoeva / Stefani Stoeva (BUL), 18-21, 15-21. ⚠️We hold no record of the first round at this event, so the second round above is all we have from it.

China Open

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

Here it was the mixed doubles only. With Yuichi Shimogami she won the first round over Tang Chun Man / Tse Ying Suet (HKG) 21-18, 19-21, 21-19 in three games, then lost the second round on 23 July to Yang Po-Hsuan / Hu Ling Fang (TPE), 21-14, 15-21, 19-21 — after taking the opening game. ⚠️We hold no record of her playing the women's doubles at this event.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

🔴Two events here, and she was seeded in both — 14th in the women's doubles, 13th in the mixed, so she had a bye in each. On 19 August she played twice and won twice: with Rui Hirokami she beat Luo Yi / Wang Ting Ge (CHN) 21-11, 19-21, 21-6 in 60 minutes, and with Yuichi Shimogami she beat Bimo Prasetyo / Arlia Munggaran (INA) 21-13, 21-16 in 35 minutes. On 20 August she played twice and lost twice: the women's doubles to Baek Ha-na / Lee So-hee (KOR, 3rd seeds) 21-8, 13-21, 9-21, the mixed to Dechapol Puavaranukroh / Supissara Paewsampran (THA, 4th seeds) 21-17, 12-21, 17-21. On both days she took the opening game of both matches.

China Masters

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

Both events ended in the first round, but on different days. The mixed doubles with Yuichi Shimogami went out on 1 September, 11-21, 15-21 in 35 minutes to Jiang Zhenbang / Wei Yaxin (CHN, 3rd seeds). The women's doubles with Rui Hirokami went out on 2 September, 17-21, 21-8, 5-21 in 60 minutes to Luo Yi / Wang Ting Ge (CHN). 🔴Those were the same opponents she had beaten 14 days earlier in the second round of the World Championships (→the same opponent, reversed).

Asian Games 2026

Asian Games・Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan

She was in the squad the Nippon Badminton Association announced on 19 May 2026 and played the mixed doubles with Yuichi Shimogami (the announcement listed them at World No. 17 at that time). In the individual mixed doubles they went out in the second round. First round, 25 September: a Mongolian pair 21-4, 21-4. Second round, the same day: the 4th seeds from Chinese Taipei 10-21, 15-21. Japan's other mixed pair, Yuta Watanabe / Maya Taguchi, also went out in the second round. Japan's women won team silver, but we have not recorded any team match she played. ⚠️These two matches are not in the fourteen-match count we record (scores from Hobara's side).

Arctic Open 2026

Super 500・Vantaa, Finland

4th seeds in the women's doubles with Rui Hirokami, out in the first round. First round, 7 October: LUO Yi / WANG Ting Ge (CHN) 16-21, 21-13, 19-21 (73 minutes). The mixed doubles entry with Yuichi Shimogami was in neither the BWF main draw nor the qualifying. ⚠️This match is not in the fourteen-match count we record (scores from Hobara's side).

Denmark Open 2026

Super 750・Odense, Denmark

In the women's doubles with Rui Hirokami she won the first round on 13 October against HARRIS / VAN LEEUWEN (ENG) 21-5, 21-18. In the second round on 15 October they lost to another Japanese pair, Sayaka Hirota / Ayako Sakuramoto, 13-21, 15-21, which ended their women's doubles (early on 16 October Japan time). The mixed doubles entry with Yuichi Shimogami is not in the BWF main draw. ⚠️These two matches are not in the fourteen-match count we record (scores from Hobara's side).

🔴In 2026 Sayaka Hobara played Luo Yi / Wang Ting Ge (CHN) twice within 14 days — winning once and losing once. The two matches sit on two different tournament pages, so they can only be read side by side once the results are re-sorted by player.

• ⭕19 August, second round of the BWF World Championships 2026: with Rui Hirokami, seeded 14th, 21-11, 19-21, 21-6 in 60 minutes — a three-game win after dropping the second.
• ❌2 September, first round of the China Masters 2026: the same opponents, 17-21, 21-8, 5-21 in 60 minutes. She levelled the match in the second game again, but the decider went 5-21.

We do not write about why any of this happened. What is listed above is only the dates and scores themselves, as recorded on our own tournament pages. ⚠️Both matches lasted 60 minutes, and each contained a game where the opponents were held to single figures.

🔴Of the Japanese women's doubles pairs we keep a page for, two met Francesca CORBETT / Jennie GAI (USA) in 2026 — and neither of them won. The two results sit on two different tournament pages, so they can only be read side by side once the results are re-sorted by player.

• ❌12 March | Swiss Open 2026, second round — Hobara and Rui Hirokami, seeded 8th, 12-21, 21-17, 19-21.
• ❌3 September | China Masters 2026, second round — Rin Iwanaga / Kie Nakanishi, seeded 6th, 20-22, 15-21.

We do not write about why any of this happened. What is listed above is only the dates and the scores themselves, as recorded on our own tournament pages. This is not a career head-to-head — only the matches we recorded in 2026.

🔴At the Orléans Masters in March 2026 (Super 300), Sayaka Hobara and Rui Hirokami were 4th seeds and reached the semi-finals. It is her deepest run among the events in the results cards (she also reached the last four at the Indonesia Open in June — see semi-finals in Jakarta). Two of their three matches in Orléans went to a third game: the quarter-final was won after losing the opening game, the semi-final lost after winning it.

• ➖17 March | First round: a walkover — Ashwini BHAT K. / Shikha GAUTAM (IND) withdrew. No match was played.
• ⭕19 March | Second round: Hathaithip MIJAD / Napapakorn TUNGKASATAN (THA) 21-13, 21-10 in 35 minutes.
• ⭕20 March | Quarter-final: BAO Li Jing / LUO Xu Min (CHN) 16-21, 26-24, 21-17 in 80 minutes. The Nippon Badminton Association's report says they were 10-18 down in the second game.
• ❌21 March | Semi-final: LIN Chih-Chun / YANG Chu Yun (TPE) 21-17, 19-21, 18-21 in 64 minutes.

🥇The next day, 22 March, that pair lost the final to Sumire Nakade / Miyu Takahashi, 22-20, 12-21, 21-18 from the Japanese pair's side. The pair who stopped Hobara and Hirokami were beaten for the title by another Japanese pair.

We do not write about why any of this happened. What is listed above is only the dates and the scores themselves. Sources: our own Orleans Masters page (2026 results), the Nippon Badminton Association's day-by-day results, the English Wikipedia draw and BWF's official match data; the opponent, the score and the date agree across them. Scores are from Hobara's point of view.

⚠️The results in this section are not counted in the fourteen matches in the cards above. Our Indonesia Open 2027 page records that Hobara and Rui Hirokami reached the last four of the 2026 women's doubles, with the semi-final score. The other rounds are confirmed by two agreeing sources, the official BWF day data and the English Wikipedia draw.

• ⭕3 June | WD first round: the 8th seeds Gabriela Stoeva / Stefani Stoeva (BUL), 21-6, 12-21, 22-20 in 56 minutes, the decider by two points.
• ❌3 June | XD first round (with Yuichi Shimogami): the 2nd seeds Dechapol Puavaranukroh / Supissara Paewsampran (THA), 21-23, 21-19, 19-21 in 66 minutes.
• ⭕4 June | WD second round: Ong Xin Yee / Carmen Ting (MAS) 21-14, 18-21, 21-13 in 66 minutes.
• ⭕5 June | WD quarter-final: the 2nd seeds Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS), 22-20, 21-16 in 46 minutes.
• ❌6 June | WD semi-final: an all-Japanese tie against Yuki Fukushima / Mayu Matsumoto (5th seeds), 12-21, 12-21 in 39 minutes.

🔴Unseeded, they beat the 8th and the 2nd seeds on the way to the semi-finals. Fukushima and Matsumoto went on to beat the top seeds Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN) 21-15, 18-21, 21-18 in the final the next day — the pair who stopped Hobara and Hirokami won the title.

🔁On 16 July, in the second round of the Japan Open, the same Stoeva sisters beat them 18-21, 15-21 (see the cards above): a win in June, a defeat in July.

We do not write about why any of this happened. Scores are from Hobara's point of view; match times come from the official BWF day data. The semi-final score agrees across our tournament page, the BWF day data and English Wikipedia.

• 2026 — Orléans Masters — women's doubles semi-finalist (4th seed)
  At the 2026 Orléans Masters (17–22 March, Super 300, France) she and Rui Hirokami were 4th seeds and reached the semi-finals — her deepest run among the events in the results cards (she also reached the last four at the Indonesia Open in June). The pair who beat them in the semi-final lost the final the next day to Sumire Nakade / Miyu Takahashi of Japan.
• 2026 — World Championships — seeded in both events (WD 14, XD 13)
  In the seedings BWF published on 4 August 2026 she was 14th seed in the women's doubles with Rui Hirokami and 13th seed in the mixed with Yuichi Shimogami. Of the Japanese players we cover, she is the only one seeded in two events at the same tournament. Both seedings meant a bye into the second round.
• 2026 — Women's doubles career high — World No. 11 (30 June)
  The career-high column of the BWF World Ranking table on English Wikipedia, dated 25 August 2026, lists 11th on 30 June 2026. As of 8 September 2026 the pair is still 14th. Rankings move every week, so every figure on this page carries its date.
• 2026 — Mixed doubles career high — World No. 13 (21 July)
  The mixed doubles career-high column of the same table lists 13th on 21 July 2026. As of 8 September 2026 the pair is still 16th, the lower of Japan's two mixed pairs — the other, Yuta Watanabe and Maya Taguchi, is 13th.
• 2026 — Japan's Asian Games squad (mixed doubles)
  Named in the squad the Nippon Badminton Association announced on 19 May 2026, she played the mixed doubles with Yuichi Shimogami and went out in the second round of the individual event; Japan's women won team silver. As recorded on our Asian Games 2026 page.
• 2026 — Japan national team (women's squad), two events
  She is listed on the Nippon Badminton Association's 2026 national team pages in the women's squad, with her events given as doubles and mixed doubles. Her club is Yonex in Tokyo and she is from Miyagi. J SPORTS also notes that she represents Japan in two events in 2026.

🔴At the Denmark Open 2026 (13–18 October, Denmark, Super 750), her women's doubles with Rui Hirokami ended with a second-round loss. Next is the French Open 2026 (see below).

✅The Asian Games 2026 (20 to 29 September, Ichinomiya Municipal Gymnasium, Aichi, Japan) are over. She was in the squad the Nippon Badminton Association announced on 19 May 2026, entered in the mixed doubles with Yuichi Shimogami for both the individual and the team event, one of Japan's two mixed pairs in the individual draw; the other is Yuta Watanabe / Maya Taguchi. In the individual mixed doubles they beat a Mongolian pair 21-4, 21-4 in the first round on 25 September and lost the second round the same day to the 4th seeds from Chinese Taipei 10-21, 15-21. Japan's women won team silver (we have not recorded any team match she played). ⚠️These two matches are not in the fourteen-match count above (the card is in the 2026 results above; the full event is on our Asian Games 2026 page).

🗓️October in Europe: She is in the Japan squad the Nippon Badminton Association named on 11 September 2026 for the Denmark Open 2026 (13–18 October, Denmark, Super 750) and the French Open 2026 (20–25 October, France, Super 750), in both the women's doubles (with Rui Hirokami) and the mixed doubles (with Yuichi Shimogami). At the Denmark Open only the women's doubles is in the BWF main draw; the mixed doubles entry with Yuichi Shimogami is not. In the women's doubles they beat HARRIS / VAN LEEUWEN (ENG) 21-5, 21-18 in the first round on 13 October, and lost the second round on 15 October (early on 16 October Japan time) to another Japanese pair, Sayaka Hirota / Ayako Sakuramoto, 13-21, 15-21. At the French Open too, only the women's doubles is in the main draw published on 15 October: an all-Japanese first round against Rin Iwanaga / Kie Nakanishi (3rd seeds). The mixed doubles entry with Yuichi Shimogami is not in the French Open main draw either (no reason has been announced).

🔴At the Arctic Open 2026 (6–11 October, Finland, Super 500) the BWF draw had her in the women's doubles only. She was on the association's list of self-funded entrants of the same 11 September in both the women's doubles (with Rui Hirokami) and the mixed doubles (with Yuichi Shimogami), but when we counted, one by one, all ten draws BWF published on 6 October 2026 for the five events — main draw and qualifying, only the women's pair is there, seeded 4th; the mixed entry was in neither the main draw nor the qualifying (Japan has 17 entries at this tournament: nine singles players and eight doubles pairs). ⚠️ No reason has been announced, so we do not state one.

🔁In that women's doubles draw they lost the first round on 7 October to LUO Yi / WANG Ting Ge of China 16-21, 21-13, 19-21 (73 minutes), and we hold two other matches against that pair: a 21-11, 19-21, 21-6 win in the second round of the World Championships 2026 on 19 August and a 17-21, 21-8, 5-21 defeat in the first round of the China Masters 2026 on 2 September — both of them 60-minute three-gamers. ⚠️ The Arctic Open first-round match is not in the fourteen-match count above.

Withdrawals after the draw are possible, so check the official BWF draw for the latest.

⚠️ Japan's two pairs in the individual women's doubles at the Asian Games were Yuki Fukushima / Mayu Matsumoto and Rin Iwanaga / Kie Nakanishi. The association's lists are dated 11 September 2026. We do not guess at names. The full calendar is on our 2026 badminton tournament schedule. Linked pages are in Japanese unless marked EN.

"Second round", "third round" — none of it tells you how many matches a player actually played. In our records Hobara's 2026 reads: women's doubles second round at the Swiss Open, women's doubles semi-finals at the Orléans Masters, women's doubles second round at the Japan Open, mixed doubles second round at the China Open, third round in both events at the World Championships, first round in both at the China Masters. Read as a list, the World Championships looks like a third-round exit. In fact, at the World Championships she played four matches across two days and won the first two.

🔴Up to 2 September we recorded fourteen matches for her in 2026: six wins and eight losses (the Asian Games in late September and the Arctic Open and the Denmark Open in October are not in the fourteen) — nine women's doubles matches (four wins, five losses) and five mixed doubles matches (two wins, three losses). ⚠️At the Daihatsu Japan Open we hold only the second round, not the first. ⚠️The first round of the Orléans Masters was a walkover — her opponents withdrew — so no match was played and it is not counted. Where we hold nothing, we say so.

🇯🇵Read alongside the pages of the other Japanese players at the same events and a tournament looks different. Her mixed partner is Yuichi Shimogami; Japan's other mixed pair is Yuta Watanabe / Maya Taguchi. The other Japanese women's doubles pairs we cover are Yuki Fukushima / Mayu Matsumoto, Rin Iwanaga / Kie Nakanishi and Sayaka Hirota / Ayako Sakuramoto.

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