Nozomi Okuhara Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Swiss Open 2026

Super 300・Basel, Switzerland

🥉She came in unseeded and reached the semi-finals, three wins and one defeat. On 11 March she beat 4th seed Michelle LI (CAN) 21-18, 21-16; on 12 March, HSU Wen Chi (TPE) 21-5, 21-11; on 13 March, compatriot Riko Gunji in the quarter-finals 21-19, 21-18. On 14 March she lost the semi-final 16-21, 13-21 to top seed Putri Kusuma WARDANI (INA). All three wins came in straight games. Wardani then lost the final 11-21, 15-21 to 7th seed Supanida KATETHONG (THA), who took the title.
🆕Added on 20 September 2026: these four results were already on our own Swiss Open 2027 page as the 2026 results. ⚠️The Nippon Badminton Association's day page for 12 March labels the second round "third round"; English Wikipedia and our own tournament page call it the second round. The opponent, the score and the date agree across all three.

Orleans Masters 2026

Super 300・Orléans, France

🥇Seeded 5th, she won the title without losing a match. On 18 March she beat compatriot Hina Akechi 19-21, 21-13, 21-17; on 19 March, another compatriot, Manami SUIZU, 21-19, 21-11; on 20 March, NGUYEN Thuy Linh (VIE) 21-18, 21-8 in the quarter-finals; on 21 March, Tanvi SHARMA (IND) 21-9, 21-16 in the semi-finals; and on 22 March, Pitchamon OPATNIPUTH (THA) 21-15, 21-15 in the final. The opening game against Akechi was the only game she dropped all week. It was her first title of the season.
🆕Added on 21 September 2026: these five results were already on our own Orleans Masters 2027 page as the 2026 results. The Nippon Badminton Association's day pages for 18 to 22 March and the English Wikipedia draw agree on the opponent, the score and the date.

Daihatsu Japan Open

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

Beat HAN Qianxi (CHN) 11-21, 21-11, 21-14 in the first round, ten points down after the opening game. Withdrew before the second round, so top seed AN Se-young (KOR) went through to the quarter-finals.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

Seeded 11. Beat Ozge BAYRAK (TUR) 18-21, 21-16, 21-9 in 58 minutes, LIN Hsiang-Ti (TPE) 21-11, 21-16 in 40 minutes and Ishika JAISWAL (USA) 21-11, 13-21, 21-12 — three wins in a row for a first quarter-final at the Worlds since 2024. Withdrew before the quarter-final on 21 August, so Pornpawee CHOCHUWONG (THA, 10th seed) went through.

China Masters

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

Unseeded. She beat Natsuki NIDAIRA (JPN) 21-15, 21-19 in an all-Japanese first round on 2 September, then Michelle LI (CAN) 21-18, 21-14 in the second round on 3 September, both in straight games. In the quarter-final on 4 September she lost 6-21, 10-21 to 2nd seed WANG Zhi Yi (CHN) and went out in the last eight. She had won all four games of the previous two matches; here she did not reach double figures in either game.

Asian Games 2026

Asian Games・Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan

Japan's women (seeded 2nd), with Okuhara in the squad, won team silver. They beat India 3-1 in the quarter-final (22 September) and Korea 3-1 in the semi-final (23 September), then lost the final 0-3 to China (24 September). Okuhara was listed for the fifth match, a singles, in both the semi-final and the final, but neither was played because the tie had already been decided 3-0 or 3-1 (her opponents would have been Kim Ga-ram and Han Yue). We have not recorded whether she played in the quarter-final against India. Her entry was for the team event only, so she did not play the individual event. The venue was Ichinomiya Municipal Gymnasium.

Okuhara's 2026 World Championships reads best as a run of three wins in a row from the 11th seeding — and two of those three went to three games, both after dropping one.

• 18 Aug, first round — Ozge BAYRAK (TUR) 18-21, 21-16, 21-9 in 58 minutes. The margin widened from three points to five to twelve.
• 19 Aug, second round — LIN Hsiang-Ti (TPE) 21-11, 21-16 in 40 minutes, the only straight-games win of the week.
• 20 Aug, round of 16 — Ishika JAISWAL (USA) 21-11, 13-21, 21-12, taking the decider after losing the middle game by eight.
• 21 Aug, quarter-final — withdrew. Pornpawee CHOCHUWONG (THA, 10th seed) went through, and Okuhara finished in the last eight.

Every score above comes from our own 2026 World Championships page, where Akane Yamaguchi and Kodai Naraoka both took silver.

🆕On 20 September 2026 we added her four results from the Swiss Open in March (BWF World Tour Super 300, St. Jakobshalle, Basel), and on 21 September the five from the Orleans Masters the following week (Super 300, Orléans, France). That takes us to sixteen matches for which we hold the score game by game — fourteen wins and two defeats (that runs to the China Masters quarter-final on 4 September; her later matches at the Arctic Open, the Denmark Open and the French Open are written separately and are not in this count) — and it makes one pattern readable: all four that went to a third game were wins.

• 11 March, first round — 4th seed Michelle LI (CAN) 21-18, 21-16. She was unseeded, and drew a seed in her opening match.
• 12 March, second round — HSU Wen Chi (TPE) 21-5, 21-11, holding her to sixteen points across two games.
• 13 March, quarter-final — compatriot Riko Gunji 21-19, 21-18, one of the three all-Japanese ties of the week.
• 14 March, semi-final — 16-21, 13-21 to top seed Putri Kusuma WARDANI (INA), who then lost the final to 7th seed Supanida KATETHONG (THA).

🥇The following week she won the Orleans Masters 2026 as the 5th seed, five wins from five. Her first two opponents were both compatriots: Hina Akechi 19-21, 21-13, 21-17 on 18 March and Manami SUIZU 21-19, 21-11 on 19 March. The opening game against Akechi was the only game she dropped all week; the quarter-final, semi-final and final all went in straight games, the final 21-15, 21-15 over Pitchamon OPATNIPUTH (THA). Across the two March events that makes eight wins and one defeat, the defeat coming against the top seed, Wardani, in the Swiss Open semi-final.

🔁She played Michelle Li twice in 2026. The Swiss Open first round on 11 March finished 21-18, 21-16, and the China Masters second round on 3 September 21-18, 21-14 — both in straight games, and both opening 21-18. That pairing only becomes visible when two tournament pages are read side by side.

We do not write about why any of this happened — what is listed above is the scores themselves. Sources: our own Swiss Open 2027 page, the Nippon Badminton Association's day-by-day results for the 2026 Swiss Open, and the draw on English Wikipedia. Opponent, score and date agree across all three. The same holds for the five Orleans Masters results, checked against our own Orleans Masters 2027 page, the association's day pages for 18 to 22 March and the English Wikipedia draw for the 2026 Orléans Masters.

• 2026 — Orleans Masters — champion (France)
  Beat Pitchamon Opatniputh (THA) 21-15, 21-15 in the final on 22 March, the first title of the 2026 season. Seeded 5th, she won every match; each score is in the results list above. Sources: the tournament's own final report (22 March 2026) and our Orleans Masters 2027 page (2026 results).
• 2025 — Indonesia Masters II — champion
  Beat Devika Sihag (IND) 21-11, 21-9 in the final on 26 October, in Medan, North Sumatra. The 2026 edition of the same slot moved to Kudus (20–25 October), the same week as the French Open.
• 2025 — Malaysia Super 100 — champion
  Beat Wong Ling Ching (MAS) 21-18, 21-11 in the final on 19 October in Johor, after an all-Japanese semi-final against Hina Akechi won 21-8, 21-19. That made it two titles in two consecutive weeks.
• 2023 — Syed Modi International — champion (Lucknow, India)
  🔴Our own Syed Modi International 2026 page records this title with the score of the final: at the 2023 edition, from 28 November to 3 December, she came through unseeded and beat Line KJÆRSFELDT (DEN, 5th seed) 21-19, 21-16. The semi-final was an all-Japanese match against Aya OHORI (3rd seed), won 21-19, 22-20 — both games close to the end. Our tournament page and the draw on English Wikipedia agree.
• 2023 — Odisha Masters — champion (India)
  Women's singles title in December. The 2026 edition runs from 8 to 13 December in Cuttack. 🔴She won two titles in India that year: the Syed Modi International from 28 November to 3 December in Lucknow, then this one from 12 to 17 December in Cuttack — nine days between the two. We hold pages for the 2026 edition of both.
• 2017 — BWF World Championships — champion (gold)
  Glasgow, Emirates Arena. Seeded 7, Okuhara beat P. V. Sindhu (IND) 21-19, 20-22, 22-20 in the final — the first world singles title for a Japanese woman.
• 2016 — Rio de Janeiro Olympics — women's singles bronze
  The first Olympic singles medal for a Japanese woman in badminton.

At the China Masters 2026 (Super 750, Shenzhen, 1–6 September) Okuhara was unseeded in the draw published on 25 August and reached the quarter-finals. She beat Natsuki NIDAIRA (JPN) 21-15, 21-19 in an all-Japanese first round and Michelle LI (CAN) 21-18, 21-14 in the second, both in straight games, then lost 6-21, 10-21 to 2nd seed WANG Zhi Yi (CHN) on 4 September.

At the 2026 Asian Games in Ichinomiya, Aichi (20–29 September) that followed, Japan's women, with Okuhara in the squad, won team silver (her entry was for the team event only). She was listed for the fifth match in the semi-final and the final, but both ties were decided before it was played, and we have not recorded whether she played in the quarter-final against India.

🗓️October in Europe: Of the three events on the Nippon Badminton Association's self-funded list (published 11 September 2026), she reached the semi-finals of the Arctic Open 2026 (6–11 October, Finland, Super 500) as the fifth seed. She beat Kaloyana NALBANTOVA (BUL) 21-19, 19-21, 21-18 (84 minutes) and Neslihan ARIN (TUR) 21-13, 21-11, then came from a game down to beat second seed Tomoka Miyazaki 17-21, 21-17, 21-19 (70 minutes) in an all-Japanese quarter-final, before losing the semi-final on 10 October to Mia BLICHFELDT (DEN, eighth seed) 11-21, 7-21. ⚠️These four matches are not yet in the count above. At the Denmark Open 2026 (13–18 October, Super 750), unseeded, she beat Line KJAERSFELDT (Denmark) 21-14, 15-21, 21-15 in the first round on 13 October (the 1:00 slot on 14 October, Japan time), and beat CHIU Pin-Chian of Chinese Taipei 21-15, 21-9 in the second round on 15 October, which took her into the quarter-finals (last eight). In the all-Japanese quarter-final on 16 October, sixth seed Tomoka Miyazaki retired with Okuhara leading 7-4 in the third game, so Okuhara won 17-21, 21-14, 7-4 (retired) (no reason has been announced) and reached the semi-finals (last four). It was their second quarter-final meeting in two weeks, and Okuhara won both (the Arctic Open one 17-21, 21-17, 21-19). She lost the semi-final on 17 October to top seed An Se-young (Korea) 16-21, 8-21. The event ended on 18 October, and An Se-young went on to win the title, beating Akane Yamaguchi 21-23, 21-14, 21-18 in the final. ⚠️These four Denmark matches are not in the count above either. Until the morning of 13 October this page said the first-round opponent was Tomoka Miyazaki; the current BWF draw shows otherwise, and we have corrected it. At the French Open 2026 (20–25 October, near Paris, Super 750) she reached the semi-finals again, unseeded: she beat Natsuki Nidaira 21-15, 21-16 in an all-Japanese first round on 20 October, came from a game down to beat Pornpawee CHOCHUWONG (THA, 8th seed) 16-21, 29-27, 21-12 on 22 October and beat Ashmita CHALIHA (IND) 21-10, 17-21, 21-16 in the quarter-finals on 23 October. She lost the semi-final on 24 October to top seed An Se-young 12-21, 19-21 — the second week running that An beat her in a semi-final. The event ended on 25 October, when An Se-young won the women's singles, beating P.V. Sindhu 16-21, 21-11, 21-12 in the final (see the tournament page). ⚠️These four French Open matches are not in the count above either. Okuhara is not in the BWF main draw (published 21 October) of the following week's HYLO Open 2026 (27 October – 1 November, Saarbrücken, Germany), where the only Japanese entries are three men's singles players. Nor is she in the official BWF draw for the Korea Open 2026 (3–8 November, Yeosu, South Korea, Super 500), as checked on 2 November. 🆕The draw for the Kumamoto Masters Japan 2026 (10–15 November, Kumamoto, Super 500) is out (official BWF draw, checked on 4 November 2026): she is the 8th seed and meets Polina BUHROVA (UKR) in the first round.

⚠️ For later events, entries are not known until each draw is published. We do not guess who will play. Linked pages are in Japanese.

Two three-game wins can look identical on a results list and be nothing alike. The first round above, 18-21, 21-16, 21-9, widens game by game; the round of 16, 21-11, 13-21, 21-12, is one bad game in the middle. Keeping the score game by game is what makes that readable afterwards.

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