Lee Cheuk Yiu Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Japan Open 2026

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

He was unseeded and went out in the second round. We hold one match, the second round on 16 July: he lost 21-14, 10-21, 11-21 in 55 minutes to 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka. He took the opening game and lost the next two by ten and eleven points. Our tournament page writes it from Tanaka's side as 14-21, 21-10, 21-11. ⚠️We hold no score for his first round on 15 July (see Ten at the same events).

China Masters 2026

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

Unseeded, he reached the final and finished runner-up. We hold his last two matches. He beat Christo Popov (FRA, 2nd seed) 21-15, 21-19 in 54 minutes in the semi-final on 5 September, and lost the final on 6 September 9-21, 16-21 in 43 minutes to his Hong Kong team-mate Jason Gunawan. Our tournament page writes the final from Gunawan's side as 21-9, 21-16 and records it as the first all-Hong Kong men's singles final on the World Tour. ⚠️We hold no score for his first round, second round or quarter-final (see Unseeded to the final).

2026 Asian Games

Men's singles・Ichinomiya, Aichi

The match we hold is his second round on 26 September, a 17-21, 21-11, 18-21 defeat by 🇯🇵Kodai Naraoka. He lost the opening game, took the second 21-11 and lost the decider by three points. Our tournament page writes it from Naraoka's side as 21-17, 11-21, 21-18. ⚠️Our tournament page has no score for his other matches at this event. ⚠️This match is not in the three-match count above (up to 6 September).

🥈At the China Masters (Super 750, Shenzhen) in September 2026, Lee Cheuk Yiu played five matches from unseeded to the final and finished runner-up. Our tournament page holds a score for the last two, the semi-final and the final; the first three come from the official BWF day data.

• 🏸2 September, first round: fellow Hong Kong player Ng Ka Long Angus, 21-8, 18-21, 21-17 in 70 minutes — the longest of the five.
• 🏸3 September, second round: Toma Junior Popov (FRA), 21-19, 24-22 in 56 minutes.
• 🏸4 September, quarter-final: Kidambi Srikanth (IND), 21-16, 21-16 in 39 minutes.
• ⭕5 September, semi-final: Christo Popov (FRA, 2nd seed), 21-15, 21-19 in 54 minutes. We hold this one.
• 🔺6 September, final: fellow Hong Kong player Jason Gunawan, 9-21, 16-21 in 43 minutes. We hold this one too, and our tournament page records it as the first all-Hong Kong men's singles final on the World Tour.
• 📊Four wins and one defeat in five matches at the China Masters. Only the first round went to three games; he won the three matches from the second round to the semi-final in two.
• 🔎We do not call any of it an upset. A ranking, a seeding and a result are different things.

The semi-final and final come from our 2026 China Masters page and were checked point by point against both the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia. The first three rest on the same two sources, and we do not count them among the matches we recorded.

🔢Building this page, we took the four 2026 events he played that we have a page for — the Japan Open, the China Open, the World Championships and the China Masters — pulled the official BWF day data for men's singles date by date, and counted his matches against ours. BWF has him playing ten matches, six won and four lost. The seven we do not hold are five wins and two defeats.

• 🏸15 July, Japan Open first round: beat Lu Guang Zu (CHN) 23-21, 21-10 in 47 minutes.
• 🏸22 July, China Open first round: lost to Christo Popov (FRA, 5th seed) 7-21, 21-8, 14-21 in 52 minutes. Our 2026 China Open page does not carry this match.
• 🏸18 August, World Championships first round: beat Nguyen Hai Dang (VIE) 21-17, 21-14 in 50 minutes.
• 🏸19 August, World Championships second round: lost to Loh Kean Yew (SGP, 13th seed) 21-15, 17-21, 15-21 in 64 minutes. Our 2026 World Championships page does not carry this match.
• 🏸2, 3 and 4 September, China Masters first round, second round and quarter-final: all three won (see Unseeded to the final).
• 📊Four of the ten went to three games and six ended in two. In three of his four defeats he won a game (the Japan Open and World Championships second rounds and the China Open first round); only the China Masters final was lost in two.
• 📄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 an unseeded player losing to a seed as expected or a match with no seed moving.

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. Separately, he lost to 🇯🇵Minoru Koga in the second round of the German Open in February, a match Koga's page carries.

🔁He met France's Christo Popov twice in 2026: in the China Open first round on 22 July and the China Masters semi-final on 5 September, 45 days apart.

• 🔺22 July: lost 7-21, 21-8, 14-21 in 52 minutes in Changzhou. Popov was the 5th seed; Lee was unseeded.
• ⭕5 September: won 21-15, 21-19 in 54 minutes in Shenzhen. Popov was the 2nd seed; Lee was unseeded.
• ⚖️The first went to three games, the second ended in two. In the first he lost the opening game by fourteen points and took the second 21-8.
• 📄Our tournament pages hold only the second meeting; the first was checked against the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia.
• 🔁The semi-final can also be read on Popov's page, where the numbers are reversed and the win and the defeat swap places.

We do not hold a career head-to-head; we count only these two from 2026. Toma Junior Popov, whom he beat in the China Masters second round, is a different player.

• 2026 — World No. 19 in men's singles, dated 8 September 2026
  The official BWF ranking page for men's singles (Week 37) gives 19th with 53,423 points, and the English Wikipedia table for the same date agrees on both. ⚠️World rankings move every week, so this is a dated record. We leave out the movement from the previous week because the two sources disagree on it.
• 2026 — China Masters (Super 750) runner-up
  Shenzhen, September. Our 2026 China Masters page records his semi-final and final, and the World Tour record on English Wikipedia agrees (2026 China Masters, runner-up, final 9–21, 16–21). He played five matches at the China Masters from unseeded to the final, where he met fellow Hong Kong player Jason Gunawan.
• 2019 — Hong Kong Open (Super 500) men's singles title
  A BWF news report of 17 November 2019 and English Wikipedia agree. He beat Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA, 8th seed) 16-21, 21-10, 22-20 in the final. The BWF report says he had been promoted from the qualifying round and became only the second Hong Kong men's singles player to win the Hong Kong Open.

📅The most recent match we hold for him is the 2026 Asian Games second round on 26 September (lost to Kodai Naraoka 17-21, 21-11, 18-21).

In the European autumn swing, the Arctic Open from 6 to 11 October in Vantaa, Finland and the 2026 Denmark Open, which began on 13 October: our tournament pages follow mainly the Japanese players, and as of 15 October we have not recorded any of his matches at either.

⚠️ We do not guess at entries or results for events we have not recorded, and we do not guess at who will play. Our full 2026 calendar is on the badminton schedule page.

"Three matches, one win" is not his 2026. The BWF player data lists 14 events for him in 2026. We have a page for four of them, and hold a score for three matches between 16 July and 6 September. Saying what is missing is more accurate than filling it in.

🔴The largest thing we found is that even at an event where he reached the final, we held only his last two matches. Our tournament pages are written around the Japanese entries and the matches where a seed moved, so none of an unseeded player's run appeared until he beat the 2nd seed in the semi-final (see Unseeded to the final).

🔍A ranking is a dated record too. The 19th 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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