Lin Chun-yi Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

India Open

Super 750・New Delhi, India

🏆He won the title, winning all five of his matches. First round on 13 January: LEE Chia Hao (TPE) 21-16, 21-15 in 39 minutes. Second round on 15 January: Nhat NGUYEN (IRL) 21-16, 21-17 in 45 minutes. Quarter-final on 16 January: Lakshya Sen (IND) 17-21, 21-13, 21-18 in 68 minutes, from a game down. Semi-final on 17 January: Victor Lai (CAN) 21-9, 6-21, 22-20 in 61 minutes, the decider by two points. Final on 18 January: Jonatan Christie (INA, 3rd seed) 21-10, 21-18 in 38 minutes.
🆕Added on 20 September 2026: our India Open 2027 page already carried this final score in its note on the 2026 edition, while until 19 September this page said we held no match from his India Open title — our own site disagreed with itself. We added all five India Open matches after checking them against the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia; the games, dates, opponents and match times agree in both.

Japan Open 2026

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

🔻He went out in his opening match. On 14 July he lost 17-21, 19-21 in 54 minutes to 🇯🇵Kodai Naraoka. Our tournament page writes it from the Japanese side as 21-17, 21-19. ⚡Among the matches we hold, this is the next one after the India Open in January (we hold nothing in between, including his All England title in March). Naraoka went on to reach the semi-finals here.

China Open 2026

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

🏸He reached the semi-finals. We hold four matches from the China Open and they are three wins and one loss, all inside four days. In the first round on 21 July he beat Lu Guangzu (CHN) 21-18, 21-16 in 50 minutes; in the second round on 23 July he beat Christo Popov (FRA, 5th seed) 21-18, 21-13 in 44 minutes; in the quarter-final on 24 July he beat Weng Hongyang (CHN) 27-25, 21-14 in 55 minutes, the opening game going to 27-25. In the semi-final on 25 July he lost 18-21, 17-21 in 48 minutes to Chou Tien-chen (TPE, 6th seed); our tournament page writes that from the winner's side as 21-18, 21-17 and calls it an all-Chinese-Taipei meeting.
🆕Added on 8 September 2026: the second round was missing from our China Open page until today. We confirmed it against the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia, and we have added it there too (see the round that was missing).

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

He was the 12th seed in men's singles and went out in the second round. On 19 August he lost 21-13, 17-21, 11-21 in 70 minutes to Rasmus Gemke (DEN) — after taking the opening game. Our tournament page records it as the first upset of day three. ⚠️We hold no record of his first round here.

The eleven matches we recorded for Lin Chun-yi in 2026 up to 19 August are eight wins and three losses (his Arctic Open 2026 match on 7 October is not in this count). Put them in date order and all eight wins come from two events: the India Open from 13 to 18 January, which he won without losing a match, and the China Open from 21 to 24 July.

• ✅The eight wins are five at the India Open (Super 750) and three at the China Open (Super 1000). At the India Open: Lee Chia Hao 21-16, 21-15 in round one, Nhat Nguyen 21-16, 21-17 in round two, Lakshya Sen 17-21, 21-13, 21-18 in the quarter-final, Victor Lai 21-9, 6-21, 22-20 in the semi-final and Jonatan Christie 21-10, 21-18 in the final. At the China Open: Lu Guangzu 21-18, 21-16 in round one, Christo Popov 21-18, 21-13 in round two, Weng Hongyang 27-25, 21-14 in the quarter-final. None of the three China Open wins went to a third game.
• 🔻The three defeats are spread across three tournaments: the Japan Open first round on 14 July (🇯🇵Kodai Naraoka, 17-21, 19-21), the China Open semi-final on 25 July (Chou Tien-chen, 18-21, 17-21) and the World Championships second round on 19 August (Rasmus Gemke, 21-13, 17-21, 11-21).
• ⏱The longest is the 70-minute World Championships defeat. Three of the eleven went to three games: the India Open quarter-final (68 minutes) and semi-final (61 minutes), both won, and the World Championships match, lost. The shortest is the 38-minute India Open final.
• 🇯🇵We hold exactly one meeting with a Japanese player: the Japan Open first round, 17-21, 19-21 from Lin's side.

We do not explain why any of it happened; this is the results only. The six from July and August come from our own tournament pages. For the five India Open matches, our India Open 2027 page carries the final score, and all five were checked against the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia. ⚠️Because our tournament pages are built around the Japanese entries, this is not his full 2026.

🏆On 8 March 2026 Lin Chun-yi won the men's singles at the All England Open (Super 1000). No player from Chinese Taipei had ever won that title. ⚠️And we do not record a single match from that run.

• 📄The reason is simply that we have no All England 2026 tournament page. What we do have is our All England 2027 page, which lists him under previous champions in men's singles.
• 🥇The final, 8 March: he beat Lakshya Sen (IND) 21-15, 22-20 in 57 minutes. Badminton Spirit reports that he took the opening game to 15 and came back to win the second 22-20.
• 🥈The semi-final, 7 March: he beat Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA, 2nd seed) 21-14, 18-21, 21-16. The Liberty Times notes that this made him the third player from Chinese Taipei to reach an All England men's singles final, after Chou Tien-chen in 2020 and Lee Chia-hao the year before.
• 📈That week his world ranking went from 11th to 8th, and 8th is still his career high as of 8 September 2026 (English Wikipedia dates it 10 March 2026).

We never count a match we do not hold as one of our own records. The two scores above are published facts taken from Badminton Spirit, the Liberty Times and the draw on English Wikipedia. We have no All England 2026 page.

🆕Reading our whole China Open 2026 page to build this one, we found that 23 July had no second-round line at all. The player who lost it was Christo Popov of France, then world No. 2 and the 5th seed here.

• 🏸23 July, round of 16: Lin Chun-yi beat Christo Popov (FRA, 5th seed) 21-18, 21-13 in 44 minutes.
• 📚Two sources: the official BWF day data for the China Open 2026 (23 July 2026, MS R16) and the draw on English Wikipedia. They agree point for point.
• 🛠On 8 September 2026 we added that line to our China Open 2026 page. The related-links block there had also described Christo Popov only as the player beaten in the men's doubles, so we added his men's singles exit as well.
• 👤We updated Christo Popov's page the same day. There the same match reads 18-21, 13-21. The points are the same; only the direction changes.

Nothing was broken and nothing was wrong — the match was simply absent. Our tournament pages are written around the Japanese entries, so rounds with no Japanese player in them can drop out like this. We add them back as we find them.

• 2026 — All England Open — men's singles champion (Super 1000)
  Birmingham, 8 March. He beat Lakshya Sen (IND) 21-15, 22-20 in 57 minutes. Badminton Spirit's report on the finals and Focus Taiwan (CNA) both record it as the first All England men's singles title won by a player from Chinese Taipei. Our own All England 2027 page lists him under previous champions.
• 2026 — All England Open — beat the 2nd seed in the semi-final
  On 7 March he beat Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA, 2nd seed) 21-14, 18-21, 21-16. The Liberty Times reports that this made him the third player from Chinese Taipei to reach an All England men's singles final, after Chou Tien-chen in 2020 and Lee Chia-hao the year before. The draw on English Wikipedia gives the same score.
• 2026 — India Open — men's singles champion (Super 750)
  New Delhi, January. He beat Jonatan Christie (INA) 21-10, 21-18 in the final. Badminton Spirit describes him as the player who had won his first title at Super 750 level or above at the India Open, and English Wikipedia records it as the first Super 750 title for a men's singles player from Chinese Taipei. Our India Open 2027 page carries the same final score in its note on the 2026 edition, and the season cards on this page list all five matches.
• 2026 — Career-high world No. 8, dated 10 March 2026
  The BWF World Ranking table on English Wikipedia gives his career high as 8th, dated 10 March 2026. The Liberty Times wrote the same thing when he reached the All England final, saying his next ranking would rise to 8th. ⚠️World rankings move every week, so this is a dated record.

📅The most recent event we record for him is the Arctic Open 2026 (Super 500, Vantaa, Finland) from 6 to 11 October. He was the 5th seed in men's singles and lost his first-round match on 7 October to SU Li Yang, also of Chinese Taipei, 17-21, 6-21 — the only men's singles seed to go out in his opening match. ⚠️This match is not in the eleven-match count on this page. Before that came the BWF World Championships 2026 in New Delhi, which finished on 23 August.

The European autumn swing is the Denmark Open from 13 to 18 October in Odense (Super 750), now under way, and the French Open from 20 to 25 October near Paris (Super 750). The season ends with the BWF World Tour Finals in December.

⚠️ Our pages for the Asian Games 2026 (20 to 29 September, Ichinomiya) and the Denmark Open 2026 follow the Japanese entries and show no entry or result of his (for the Denmark Open, as of 15 October; the event runs until the 18th). 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 BWF World Tour Finals 2026, and we do not guess at who will play. Our full 2026 calendar is on the badminton schedule page.

"Eight wins and three losses" is not his 2026. The eleven we hold cover six days of the India Open in January and five weeks from 14 July to 19 August, and none of them is from the All England title he won in March. The total hides the biggest thing that happened.

🔴A page about a player from another country has more holes than a page about a Japanese player. Our tournament pages are written around the Japanese entries, so matches without a Japanese player can drop out. Here that showed up as a win over the world No. 2 that had no line on our own page at all. We say what we do not have.

🔍The same results can still be read from both sides. On Chou Tien-chen's page 25 July is a win, on Kodai Naraoka's page 14 July is a win, and on Christo Popov's page 23 July is a defeat. The points are the same; only the direction changes.

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