Takuro Hoki / Yugo Kobayashi
Badminton 2026 Results, Match by Match

76th All Japan Corporate Team Championships

All Japan Corporate Team Championships・Fukaya, Saitama, Japan

🆕Tonami Transportation won the title, their first since 2018. ⚠️The two of them played together only twice, both in the group stage, and won one and lost one: 15-7, 15-11 against Rintaro Ono / Yuki Ijima, then 🔴12-15, 15-13, 11-15 against Sota Terashima / Yuyu Miyagawa. From the quarter-finals they were split into different pairings. Kobayashi played three rubbers with Tsubasa Yoshida — quarter-final 13-15, 15-12, 15-10; semi-final 15-11, 13-15, 7-15 to Yuichi Shimogami and Takumi Nomura; then 15-5, 8-15, 15-13 at second doubles in the final. Hoki played two with Shuntaro Mezaki — semi-final 16-14, 9-15, 15-8, and 🔴the first-doubles rubber of the final, 15-7, 7-15, 15-17 to BIPROGY's Kakeru Kumagai and Hiroki Nishi. ⚠️Only the two final rubbers are our own primary record; the other five come from the official live-results site. Played to 15 points, best of three, with no match times published.

Daihatsu Japan Open

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

Seeded 8. They opened 21-17, 21-14 against Nur Mohd Azriyn AYUB / TAN Wee Kiong (MAS), then beat compatriots Haruki KAWABE / Kenta MATSUKAWA 21-19, 19-21, 21-19 on 16 July — every one of the three games decided by two points. In the quarter-finals on 17 July they beat the fourth seeds LIANG Weikeng / WANG Chang (CHN) 21-12, 21-19. They lost the semi-final 14-21, 21-19, 18-21 to the second seeds Fajar ALFIAN / Muhammad Shohibul FIKRI (INA), who went on to win the title.

China Open

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

Seeded 8. They beat Christo POPOV / Toma Junior POPOV (FRA) 21-12, 25-23, the second game going all the way to 25-23. In the second round on 23 July they lost 15-21, 21-15, 10-21 to KANG Min-hyuk / KI Dong-ju (KOR) — they dropped the opener, levelled it, then were pulled away from in the decider.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

Seeded 8 and byed into the second round, they withdrew on 14 August 2026 (announced by the Nippon Badminton Association). That left Japan without a seeded men's doubles pair in the draw. The seedings came from the world rankings of 28 July 2026. We do not publish the reason for a withdrawal.

China Masters

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

Seeded 8. In the first round on 1 September, against HU Ke Yuan / LIN Xiang Yi (CHN), they retired at 9-11 in the opening game, eight minutes in. Neither the BWF nor the Nippon Badminton Association has published a reason, and we do not speculate.

Asian Games 2026

Asian Games・Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan

They went out in the second round of the individual men's doubles. They beat a pair from Bangladesh 21-9, 21-11 in the first round on 25 September, then lost to Nur Izzuddin and Goh Sze Fei (MAS) 19-21, 16-21 on 26 September (Japan's other pair, Kakeru Kumagai / Hiroki Nishi, reached the quarter-finals). In the team event Japan's men (seeded 4th), with them in the squad, beat Kazakhstan 3-0 in the first round and lost 0-3 to India in the quarter-final. We have not recorded any team-event match played by Hoki and Kobayashi. The venue was Ichinomiya City Gymnasium.

Denmark Open 2026

Super 750・Odense, Denmark

They won the men's doubles here in 2025, beating Fajar ALFIAN / Muhammad Shohibul FIKRI (INA) 21-18, 15-21, 21-19 in the final. The semi-final also went the distance, 23-21, 18-21, 21-16 against the sixth seeds Satwiksairaj RANKIREDDY / Chirag SHETTY (IND), and they took the title unseeded. 🔴In 2026 they returned as defending champions but lost in the first round on 13 October to the fourth seeds Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik (MAS) 19-21, 21-14, 11-21, so the title has gone.

French Open 2026

Super 750・near Paris, France

Seeded 8. In the first round on 21 October they beat Ben LANE / Sean VENDY (ENG) 23-21, 24-22, both games going to extra points. In the second round on 22 October they lost 23-25, 14-21 to MAN Wei Chong / TEE Kai Wun (MAS), the pair who had beaten Kakeru Kumagai / Hiroki Nishi in the first round the day before. The Malaysians went on to win the title, beating GOH Sze Fei / Nur IZZUDDIN (MAS) 13-21, 21-15, 21-7 in the final on 25 October. ⚠️These two matches are not in the match count above either (scores from Hoki and Kobayashi's side).

S/J League 2026-27

Japan domestic league・15 venues across Japan

Japan's top domestic team league started on 31 October 2026 in Yokote, Akita and runs to the TOP4 Tournament at Yokohama BUNTAI on 21 February 2027, across 15 venues. At the opening Yokote event (31 October – 1 November), Tonami Transportation won both of their men's J block ties (2-1 over Tokai Kogyo, 3-0 over Daido Steel; second in the table as of 1 November). We record team results only, not who played each match. Takuro Hoki is listed as one of the players to watch for Tonami Transportation on our tournament page. Domestic events in Japan moved to 15-point games ahead of the rest of the world in 2026.

Korea Open 2026

Super 500・Yeosu, South Korea

They reached the men's doubles semi-finals at the 2025 edition in Suwon. The 2026 event is at Jinnam Stadium in Yeosu, the same venue where Kodai Naraoka reached the men's singles semi-finals in 2023. In 2026, as 5th seeds, they beat KIM Gi Jung / KIM Sa Rang (KOR) 21-16, 21-15 on 3 November, CHOI / GOH (KOR/MAS) 21-14, 19-21, 21-15 on 5 November, CHIA / TEO (MAS) 21-17, 21-18 in the quarter-final on 6 November and KANG / LEE (KOR) 21-14, 21-18 in the semi-final on 7 November (the pair who had beaten Kumagai / Nishi in the quarter-finals). They reached the final on Sunday 8 November, against the top seeds Kim Won-ho / Seo Seung-jae (KOR). The result of the final is not on this page yet (see the tournament page). ⚠️These four matches are not in the match count above either.

The pair that stopped Hoki and Kobayashi in the 2026 Japan Open semi-finals were Indonesia's Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri. Nine months earlier, in the 2025 Denmark Open final, Hoki and Kobayashi had beaten the same pair to take the title. Both matches went to three games, and both deciders were settled by three points or fewer. Side by side, they show something a results table cannot.

• 🏆October 2025 — Denmark Open final: they beat Alfian and Fikri 21-18, 15-21, 21-19 and took the title unseeded.
• July 2026 — Japan Open semi-final: they lost to the same pair 14-21, 21-19, 18-21, and Alfian and Fikri went on to win the tournament.
• 📅13 to 18 October 2026 — Denmark Open 2026 (Odense, Denmark, Super 750): back as defending champions, they lost in the first round to the fourth seeds Chia and Soh (MAS) 19-21, 21-14, 11-21.

At a Japan squad media session on 6 August 2026, Hoki said of that Japan Open match that "being able to play a good match against the champions gave us confidence", while Kobayashi said "if we keep updating ourselves, the title is there" (Badminton Spirit, 6 August 2026).

At the 2026 Denmark Open they lost in the first round to the fourth seeds Chia and Soh (MAS) 19-21, 21-14, 11-21 (13 October). What is listed above is the record of what actually happened in 2025 and 2026, with the scores as confirmed on our own tournament page.

• 2021 — World Championships — men's doubles champions
  In Huelva, Spain, they became the first Japanese men's doubles pair to win the world title. They had been runners-up in the same event in Basel in 2019. The specialist Japanese outlet Badminton Spirit still refers to them as former champions in its 2023 tournament reports.
• 2022 — World No. 1 in men's doubles
  On 20 September 2022 they became the first Japanese men's doubles pair to reach World No. 1. Badminton Spirit reported it on that date, and the BWF World Ranking listing records the same peak for the pair — No. 1, 20 September 2022. Rankings move, so we always publish the date with the number.
• 2021 — BWF World Tour Finals — champions
  The season-ending event for the top eight pairs of the year. They were the first Japanese men's doubles pair to win it.
• 2025 — Denmark Open (Super 750) — champions
  In October 2025 they took the title unseeded, beating Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri (INA) 21-18, 15-21, 21-19 in the final. Our Denmark Open 2026 page records them as the defending champions.
• 2024 — Paris Olympics — men's doubles
  They represented Japan in the men's doubles at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
• 2026 — Asian Games — Japan squad (individual R2)
  One of the ten men named on 19 May 2026. They went out in the second round of the individual men's doubles, losing 19-21, 16-21 to Nur Izzuddin and Goh Sze Fei (MAS). Japan's men lost 0-3 to India in the team quarter-final.

🏟️At the Asian Games 2026 (20–29 September, Ichinomiya, Aichi) they went out in the second round of the individual men's doubles. They beat a pair from Bangladesh 21-9, 21-11 on 25 September, then lost to Nur Izzuddin and Goh Sze Fei (MAS) 19-21, 16-21 on 26 September.

At home, Japan's domestic S/J League 2026-27 started on 31 October in Yokote, Akita, with Takuro Hoki listed for Tonami Transportation on our tournament page. At the Korea Open 2026 (3–8 November, Yeosu), where they were semi-finalists in 2025, they won four matches as 5th seeds and reached the final on Sunday 8 November against Kim Won-ho / Seo Seung-jae (KOR). The result of the final is not on this page yet.

🗓️October in Europe: First, they reached the quarter-finals of the Arctic Open 2026 (6–11 October, Finland, Super 500) as the second seeds. They beat Bjarne Geiss and Jones Ralfy Jansen (GER) 21-9, 21-12, came from a game down against CHEN Cheng Kuan and LIU Kuang Heng (TPE) 19-21, 21-16, 21-13, and lost the quarter-final to Julien Maio and William Villeger (FRA) 13-21, 13-21 (31 minutes). At the Denmark Open 2026 (13–18 October, Super 750) they were the defending champions but unseeded, and lost in the first round on 13 October to the fourth seeds Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik (MAS) 19-21, 21-14, 11-21. Then, as 8th seeds at the French Open 2026 (20–25 October, near Paris, Super 750), they beat Ben LANE / Sean VENDY (ENG) 23-21, 24-22 in the first round on 21 October and lost to MAN Wei Chong / TEE Kai Wun (MAS) 23-25, 14-21 in the second round on 22 October. ⚠️The Asian Games matches and these six are not yet in the match count above (scores from Hoki and Kobayashi's side).

🆕Next is the Kumamoto Masters Japan 2026 (10–15 November, Kumamoto). The draw is out (official BWF draw, checked on 4 November 2026): they open against a qualifier, decided on 10 November. We do not guess at names. Check our tournament pages and the official BWF draw for the confirmed field.

Three of the six 2026 matches we record for them from the Japan Open and the China Open in July went to three games (the later Asian Games, Arctic Open, Denmark Open and French Open matches and the June corporate team championships are not in that count). The most extreme was the Japan Open second round, 21-19, 19-21, 21-19 — every game decided by two points. A results line that only says "semi-finals" hides all of that. The second game of their China Open first round also ran to 25-23. Keeping the points, not just the round reached, is what shows how different two wins can be.

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