Kunlavut Vitidsarn Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Japan Open 2026

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

He was the 2nd seed and reached the last eight. We hold one match, the quarter-final on 17 July: he lost 22-20, 16-21, 18-21 in 72 minutes to 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka. He took the opening game 22-20 and lost the next two. Our tournament page writes it from Tanaka's side as 20-22, 21-16, 21-18. ⚠️We hold no score for his first and second rounds (see Eleven at the same events).

China Open 2026

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

He was the 2nd seed and lost his first round on 22 July, 13-21, 21-8, 19-21 in 71 minutes to Rasmus Gemke (DEN). He lost the opening game, took the second 21-8 and lost the decider by two points. Our tournament page writes it from Gemke's side as 21-13, 8-21, 21-19; it did not carry this match until 9 September 2026, and says so.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

He was the 2nd seed and reached the last eight. The match we hold a score for is the quarter-final on 21 August, a 21-19, 16-21, 16-21 defeat in 78 minutes by Alex Lanier (FRA, 9th seed), who went on to win the title. Again he took the opening game and lost the next two. ⚠️We hold no score for his matches on 18, 19 and 20 August; our tournament page only says he came through.

China Masters 2026

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

He was the 3rd seed and reached the last eight. We hold his first round on 1 September, a 15-21, 21-14, 22-20 win in 66 minutes over 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka — he lost the opening game and took the decider 22-20, against the player who had beaten him at the Japan Open in July (see Tanaka twice in 46 days). ⚠️Our tournament page has no score for his second round on 3 September or his quarter-final on 4 September. The quarter-final was a 21-18, 17-21, 18-21 defeat in 101 minutes by Anders Antonsen (DEN, 5th seed), which Antonsen's page carries from two sources.

2026 Asian Games

Men's singles・Ichinomiya, Aichi

He was the 2nd seed and won the men's singles gold. The match we hold is the final on 29 September, a 21-12, 21-16 win over Loh Kean Yew (SGP). Our tournament page notes that it was reported as the first men's singles gold for Thailand. ⚠️Our tournament page has no score for his matches before the final. ⚠️This match is not in the four-match count above (up to 1 September).

2026 Arctic Open

Super 500・Vantaa, Finland

He was the 1st seed and reached the last eight. The match we hold is the quarter-final on 9 October, a 21-14, 13-21, 16-21 defeat in 62 minutes by 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka — he took the opening game and lost the next two, in their third meeting of 2026 (see Tanaka twice in 46 days). Our tournament page writes it from Tanaka's side as 14-21, 21-13, 21-16. ⚠️We hold no score for his earlier matches there. ⚠️This match is not in the four-match count above (up to 1 September).

The four matches we recorded score by score for Kunlavut Vitidsarn in 2026 are one win and three defeats, and every one of them went to a third game. He lost the three deciders by two, three and five points, and won the fourth 22-20.

• 🔺17 July, Japan Open quarter-final: 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka, 22-20, 16-21, 18-21 in 72 minutes. As the 2nd seed, he took the opening game and lost.
• 🔺22 July, China Open first round: Rasmus Gemke (DEN), 13-21, 21-8, 19-21 in 71 minutes. A first-round exit as the 2nd seed, and the only one of the four where he lost the opening game and then the match.
• 🔺21 August, World Championships quarter-final: Alex Lanier (FRA, 9th seed), 21-19, 16-21, 16-21 in 78 minutes. Lanier went on to win the title.
• ⭕1 September, China Masters first round: 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka, 15-21, 21-14, 22-20 in 66 minutes. The only win of the four, with the decider settled by two points from 20-20.
• ⏱The four ran 72, 71, 78 and 66 minutes: every one of them passed the hour.
• 🔎We do not call any of it an upset. A ranking, a seeding and a result are different things.

All four come from our own tournament pages, and each was checked point by point against both the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia. We do not rank players against each other and we do not hold career head-to-heads.

🔢Building this page, we pulled the official BWF day data for men's singles at all four events, date by date, and counted his matches against ours. BWF has him playing eleven matches, seven won and four lost. The seven we do not hold are six wins and one defeat, so our records alone make him look like a player with a losing year.

• 🏸15 July, Japan Open first round: beat Ayush Shetty (IND) 21-19, 23-25, 21-15 in 82 minutes.
• 🏸16 July, Japan Open second round: beat Jia Heng Teh (SGP) 21-11, 21-16 in 37 minutes.
• 🏸18 August, World Championships first round: beat Viren Nettasinghe (SRI) 21-11, 21-6 in 24 minutes — the shortest of his eleven.
• 🏸19 August, World Championships second round: beat Daniil Dubovenko (ISR) 21-17, 21-19 in 51 minutes.
• 🏸20 August, World Championships third round: beat Garret Tan (USA) 21-10, 21-10 in 30 minutes.
• 🏸3 September, China Masters second round: beat Lu Guang Zu (CHN) 21-17, 21-12 in 49 minutes.
• 🔺4 September, China Masters quarter-final: lost to Anders Antonsen (DEN, 5th seed) 21-18, 17-21, 18-21 in 101 minutes — the longest of his eleven, and a match Antonsen's page carries.
• 📊Six of the eleven went to three games and five ended in two. All five two-game matches were wins, and all four defeats went the distance. In three of those defeats — the quarter-finals at the Japan Open, the World Championships and the China Masters — he had won the opening game.
• 📄None of the seven is an error of ours; all seven are what our format does. Our tournament pages carry each day's Japanese entries and the matches where a seed moved. These seven had no Japanese player in them, and were either a 3rd seed or better going through as expected or a quarter-final in a section with no Japanese player left.

The seven above rest on the official BWF day data and agree point by point with the draws on English Wikipedia; we do not count them among the matches we recorded. Only counting tells you whether something is missing: a match we never wrote has nothing to compare against, so every check on what we did write stays green.

🔁Two of the four matches we recorded were against 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka: the Japan Open quarter-final on 17 July and the China Masters first round on 1 September, 46 days apart.

• 🔺17 July: lost 22-20, 16-21, 18-21 in 72 minutes at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Vitidsarn was the 2nd seed; Tanaka was unseeded.
• ⭕1 September: won 15-21, 21-14, 22-20 in 66 minutes in Shenzhen. Vitidsarn was the 3rd seed; Tanaka was unseeded.
• ⚖️Both went to three games, and both times the player who won the opening game lost. The deciders were settled by three points and two.
• 🔁The same two matches can be read on Tanaka's page, where the numbers are reversed and the win and the defeat swap places.
• 🔺9 October: lost 21-14, 13-21, 16-21 in 62 minutes in Vantaa, Finland — the Arctic Open quarter-final and their third meeting of 2026. Vitidsarn was the 1st seed; Tanaka was unseeded. ⚠️This match is not counted with the two above (up to 1 September).

Both matches come from our tournament pages for the 2026 Japan Open and the 2026 China Masters, and agree with the official BWF day data. We do not hold a career head-to-head; we count only these two from 2026.

• 2026 — World No. 3 in men's singles, dated 8 September 2026
  The official BWF ranking page for men's singles (Week 37) gives third with 86,915 points from 16 counting tournaments, unchanged on the previous week, and Badminton Spirit's list and the English Wikipedia table for the same date agree. ⚠️World rankings move every week, so this is a dated record. He first reached world No. 1 on the list dated 3 June 2025; English Wikipedia and a Badminton Spirit report of 4 June 2025 agree.
• 2026 — Asian Games men's singles gold
  September, Ichinomiya, Aichi. He beat Loh Kean Yew (SGP) 21-12, 21-16 in the final. Our 2026 Asian Games page carries it after checking that two sources agree: the English Wikipedia draw and press reports.
• 2026 — Malaysia Open (Super 1000) title
  Kuala Lumpur, January. Our 2027 Malaysia Open page lists him as the defending men's singles champion, and the World Tour title list on English Wikipedia agrees. He met Shi Yuqi (CHN) in the final; the score reads 23-21, 6-1, because his opponent retired at 6-1 in the second game. ⚠️We have no page for the 2026 edition, so it is not among the results cards above.
• 2025 — Asian Championships men's singles title
  The year-by-year record on the Japanese specialist outlet Badminton Spirit (Asian Championships, won) and the medal list on English Wikipedia (2025 Ningbo, men's singles gold) agree.
• 2024 — Olympic silver medal in men's singles, Paris
  The Badminton Spirit year list (Paris Olympics, silver) and the medal list on English Wikipedia (2024 Paris, men's singles silver) agree.
• 2023 — World champion in men's singles, Copenhagen
  The Badminton Spirit year list (World Championships, gold) and the English Wikipedia medal list agree. He beat 🇯🇵Kodai Naraoka in the final, 19-21, 21-18, 21-7 from his side, and our 2026 World Championships page records the same match as Naraoka's previous final. He took silver at the 2022 edition in Tokyo, on which both sources also agree.

📅The most recent match we hold for him is the 2026 Arctic Open quarter-final on 9 October.

At the 2026 Asian Games from 20 to 29 September in Ichinomiya, Aichi he won the men's singles gold (21-12, 21-16 over Loh Kean Yew in the final), and at the Arctic Open from 6 to 11 October in Vantaa, Finland he went out in the quarter-finals as the 1st seed (21-14, 13-21, 16-21 to Yushi Tanaka). He had been the men's singles runner-up at the 2025 Arctic Open, losing the final 11-21, 21-13, 19-21 to Chou Tien-chen (TPE); our tournament page and English Wikipedia agree.

⚠️ The 2026 Denmark Open began on 13 October; our tournament page follows mainly the Japanese players, and as of 15 October we have not recorded any of his matches there. We do not guess at who will play. Our full 2026 calendar is on the badminton schedule page.

"Four matches, one win" is not his 2026. The four we hold a score for fall between 17 July and 1 September, and nothing from January to June is among them — including his Malaysia Open (Super 1000) title in January. Saying what is missing is more accurate than filling it in.

🔴The largest thing we found is that the same four events read as a losing or a winning year depending on how you count. Our tournament pages alone give one win and three defeats; the official BWF day data gives seven wins and four defeats. Our tournament pages are written around the Japanese entries and the matches where a seed moved, so a top seed's routine wins drop out and his close defeats survive (see Eleven at the same events).

🔍A ranking is a dated record too. The third place on this page is the list dated 8 September 2026 and it moves the following week. We do not assert a current place; the BWF website has the latest list.

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