Li Shifeng Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

German Open 2026

Super 300・Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

He entered as the 2nd seed and went out in the first round. On 25 February he lost 16-21, 15-21 in 44 minutes to 🇯🇵Minoru Koga, who had come through qualifying. Our tournament page (the German Open 2027 preview) writes it from Koga's side as 21-16, 21-15; the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia give the same score. ⚡Koga went on to reach the quarter-finals.

Swiss Open 2026

Super 300・Basel, Switzerland

He entered as the top seed and reached the semi-finals. The only one of his results here that we hold a score for is the second round on 12 March, a 21-17, 21-15 win in 47 minutes over 🇯🇵Yudai Okimoto; our tournament page (the Swiss Open 2027 preview) lists it in its Japanese results table from Okimoto's side as 17-21, 15-21. ⚠️His other three results here are not on our tournament page, so we do not count them. The official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia agree on all three: a 24-22, 16-21, 21-16 first-round win over UBAIDILLAH Moh. Zaki (INA) on 11 March in 84 minutes, an 8-21, 21-11, 21-15 quarter-final win over WANG Po-Wei (TPE) on 13 March in 66 minutes, and a 10-21, 19-21 semi-final defeat by 6th seed FARHAN Alwi (INA) on 14 March in 49 minutes. 🔁FARHAN lost the final the next day to Yushi Tanaka, who took the title.

Japan Open 2026

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

He entered as the 8th seed and went out in the first round. On 15 July he lost 17-21, 21-19, 15-21 to 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka. Our tournament page writes it from the winner's side as 21-17, 19-21, 21-15, and the Japanese specialist outlet Badminton Spirit reports the same three games, describing the loser as the world No. 8. ⚡Yushi Tanaka went on to reach the semi-finals here.

China Open 2026

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

He entered this home Super 1000 as the 7th seed and went out in the first round (round of 32), losing 12-21, 21-14, 18-21 to Nhat Nguyen (IRL). Our tournament page writes it from the winner's side as 21-12, 14-21, 21-18 and files it as the upset of the round; the draw on English Wikipedia gives the same three games. ⚡Nhat Nguyen went on to beat Ayush Shetty (IND) in the next round as well.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

He entered as the 8th seed and went out in the third round, the last 16. On 20 August he lost 21-13, 21-23, 11-21 in 77 minutes to 🇯🇵Kodai Naraoka (10th seed), having taken the first game 21-13 and then lost the second 21-23. Our tournament page writes it from Naraoka's side as 13-21, 23-21, 21-11 and calls it a comeback between two seeds; Badminton Spirit's day-four report gives the same three games and adds the 77-minute duration, a figure only that outlet carries. ✅He won his first round on 17 August 21-7, 21-10 against Dmitriy PANARIN (KAZ) in 30 minutes, and his second round on 19 August 21-19, 21-19 against Leong Jun Hao (MAS) in 62 minutes. He took the opening game in each of his three rounds here. 🔴Added on 17 September 2026: neither match is on our tournament page, and this page used to say we held neither the opponent nor the score. The official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia agree on both scores; the durations are from the BWF day data.

China Masters 2026

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

He went out in the first round. On 2 September he lost 18-21, 7-21 in 48 minutes to 🇯🇵Kodai Naraoka (8th seed) — the same opponent as the World Championships third round, 13 days earlier (see the two wins we had missed). Our tournament page writes it from Naraoka's side as 21-18, 21-7 and gives Li no seed number; the draw on English Wikipedia agrees on both the score and the absence of a seeding.

We hold a score for eight Li Shifeng matches in 2026 up to 2 September: three wins and five defeats (his two Asian Games 2026 matches after that are not in this count). 🔴Until 17 September 2026 this page said all four of his matches were defeats. His two wins, the first two rounds of the World Championships, were against non-Japanese opponents, so they were not on our tournament page and only the four defeats had survived. 🆕On 23 September 2026 we added two more: the German Open in February and the Swiss Open in March. Both were already on our own tournament pages (the German Open 2027 and Swiss Open 2027 previews, which carry the 2026 results), but not on this page.

• ✅His three wins were the Swiss Open second round (🇯🇵Yudai Okimoto, 21-17, 21-15 in 47 minutes) and the first two rounds of the World Championships. On 17 August he beat Dmitriy PANARIN (KAZ) 21-7, 21-10 in 30 minutes, and on 19 August Leong Jun Hao (MAS) 21-19, 21-19 in 62 minutes; the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia agree on both of those scores.
• 🇯🇵Against Japanese players he won one and lost four: the German Open first round (Minoru Koga, 16-21, 15-21), the Swiss Open second round (Yudai Okimoto, 21-17, 21-15, his only win of the five), the Japan Open first round (Yushi Tanaka, 17-21, 21-19, 15-21), the World Championships third round (Kodai Naraoka, 21-13, 21-23, 11-21) and the China Masters first round (Kodai Naraoka, 18-21, 7-21).
• 🔁Kodai Naraoka beat him twice within 13 days: the World Championships third round on 20 August, 77 minutes, after Li had taken the opening game 21-13; and the China Masters first round on 2 September, 48 minutes, in straight games. ⚡The second meeting was 29 minutes shorter.
• 🎾Three of the eight went to three games, and all three of the deciders went against him (15-21, 18-21, 11-21). The other five ended in two games: three wins and two defeats. By games it is nine won and ten lost out of nineteen. ⚡When he won the opening game he went on to win three times out of four; when he lost it, he lost all four. The one defeat after taking the first game was the World Championships meeting with Naraoka.
• 🌱He was a seed in seven of the eight — 2nd at the German Open, top seed at the Swiss Open, 8th at the Japan Open, 7th at the China Open and 8th in all three World Championships matches. For the China Masters first round, neither our tournament page nor the draw on English Wikipedia gives him a seed number.

⚠️"Three wins and five defeats" still describes our records up to 2 September, not his season. Our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries, so for a player from another country the defeats against Japanese players are the results most likely to survive in them; the two World Championships wins were on none of our pages until we went looking, and at the Swiss Open, where he played four rounds to the semi-finals, we hold the score of only the Okimoto meeting. We do not explain why any of it happened, and we do not rank players against each other.

Li Shifeng won the men's singles gold at the 19th Asian Games (2022, Hangzhou, China), held from 28 September to 7 October 2023 after a year's delay.

• 🥇Men's singles: gold Li Shifeng, silver Shi Yuqi, both of China. The medal table for the previous edition on our Asian Games 2026 page gives that order, and Badminton Spirit's career summary lists the same Hangzhou gold.
• 🏸He also took gold in the men's team event (medal table on English Wikipedia). The Asian Games badminton programme runs the team events first and the individual events afterwards.
• 📅At the 20th Asian Games (2026, Aichi–Nagoya), with badminton from 20 to 29 September at the Ichinomiya City Gymnasium, China took silver in the men's team event, beaten 2-3 by Indonesia in the final. In the third match of that final on 24 September Li lost to Alwi Farhan (INA) 21-23, 21-15, 16-21 (1 hour 23 minutes). In the individual men's singles he lost the second round on 26 September to Choi Ji-hoon (KOR) 21-18, 19-21, 18-21. The men's singles gold went to Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA).
• 🇯🇵The bronze medallist in the Hangzhou men's singles was Kodai Naraoka. ⚡Naraoka is also the player who beat Li twice in 2026, in August and September (see the two wins we had missed).

⚠️The two matches above are on our Asian Games 2026 page, checked against the official results site and the English Wikipedia draw. We have not recorded his earlier team matches or any individual match before that second round. These two matches are not in the eight-match count on this page (scores from Li's side).

• 2022 Games — Asian Games — men's singles gold
  The 19th Games, held in Hangzhou, China from 28 September to 7 October 2023 after a year's delay. The previous-edition medal table on our own Asian Games 2026 page (gold Li Shifeng, silver Shi Yuqi) and Badminton Spirit's career summary, which lists the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games gold, agree. At the 2026 edition (20 to 29 September, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan) he took team silver and lost in the second round of the individual event.
• 2023 — All England Open — champion (Super 1000)
  Badminton Spirit's career summary lists the 2023 All England Super 1000 title, and the All England champions list on English Wikipedia gives the same year. He was 23. The next All England is in March 2027.
• 2025 — Hong Kong Open — champion (Super 500)
  Our own Hong Kong Open 2026 page records him as the men's singles winner of the previous, 2025 edition, and English Wikipedia gives the same title, with Lakshya Sen (IND) beaten 21-15, 21-12 in the final. The 2026 edition runs from 17 to 22 November at Kai Tak Arena, Hong Kong.
• 2024 — Kumamoto Masters Japan — champion (Super 500)
  Badminton Spirit's career summary lists the 2024 Kumamoto Masters Super 500 title, and English Wikipedia records the same 2024 Japan Masters win. The 2026 edition runs from 10 to 15 November at the Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium.
• 2022 Games — Asian Games — men's team gold
  The team event at the same Hangzhou Games. The medal table on English Wikipedia records the men's team gold, and the previous-edition table on our own Asian Games 2026 page gives the men's team gold to China. In 2026 the team events again come first, from 20 to 24 September, with the individual events from 25 to 29 September.

📅The most recent event we record for him is the Asian Games 2026 (20 to 29 September): team silver and a second-round exit in the individual event (details in the Asian Games section above). Before that came the China Masters 2026, which ended on 6 September; he went out in the first round.

The Denmark Open 2026 (13 to 18 October) is under way. The tournaments we cover after that are the French Open 2026 from 20 to 25 October; the Kumamoto Masters Japan 2026 from 10 to 15 November; and the Hong Kong Open 2026 from 17 to 22 November. ⚡Our records make him the winner of the 2024 Kumamoto Masters and the 2025 Hong Kong Open.

⚠️ Our Denmark Open page is written around the Japanese entries, and we have no match of Li Shifeng on it (as of 15 October 2026); check the BWF draws for whether he played and how he did. The French Open 2026 draw came out on 15 October, but our tournament page lists only the Japanese entries' first-round matches, so we have not recorded his place in the draw. No entry list has been published for the events after it, and we do not guess at names. Linked pages are in Japanese unless marked EN.

Until 17 September 2026 this page said "no wins and four defeats". Every match we held a score for, four in all, was a defeat. He had won his first two World Championships rounds, but neither was against a Japanese player, so neither was on our tournament page.

🔴Those two made it two wins and four defeats; on 23 September 2026 we added the German Open and the Swiss Open, which makes it three wins and five defeats, and by games nine won and ten lost. Three of the five defeats went to three games, and one turned after he had taken the opening game 21-13. The numbers depend on what we record. Where we hold nothing, we say so, and when we find it, we add it once two sources agree.

🇯🇵Read alongside a Japanese player's page and the same match looks different. On Yushi Tanaka's page, 15 July is the line his page calls an opening-round upset of a seed. On Kodai Naraoka's page, 20 August is the first of three straight wins over higher seeds on the way to the final. On this page those three are the defeats.

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