Shi Yuqi Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Japan Open 2026

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

He entered as the 1st seed and went out in the quarter-final. He beat 🇯🇵Yudai Okimoto (JPN) 21-15, 21-15 in 59 minutes in the first round on 14 July, then Brian Yang (CAN) 16-21, 21-19, 21-18 in 65 minutes on 16 July, coming back from a game down. In the quarter-final on 17 July he lost 21-14, 10-21, 11-21 in 63 minutes to the 5th seed Christo Popov (FRA), after taking the opening game. ⚡That opponent went on to win the title. Of the eight 2026 matches we hold, two are wins he played out from start to finish, and both came here (see two wins fought to the end).
🆕Added on 18 September 2026: the second round and the quarter-final were on none of our pages. When this page went up on 9 September we left them out, because the only source we had was the seed list on English Wikipedia. The official BWF day data confirms both, and the draw on English Wikipedia agrees.

China Open 2026

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

He entered on home soil as the 1st seed and the then world No. 1, and reached the last eight. We hold three of them. In the first round Jason Teh (SGP) retired during the second game and we did not record the score. In the second round on 23 July he was 17-21, 21-2 down and level against Panitchaphon Teeraratsakul (THA) when his opponent retired during the third game. The quarter-final on 24 July went to Chou Tien-chen (TPE, 6th seed): 14-21, 21-12, 15-21. ⚡Our tournament page writes that match from Chou's side as 21-14, 12-21, 21-15 and records it as Chou ending a run of nine straight defeats against the world No. 1.

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

🔻He arrived as the defending champion and the 1st seed, and went out in the first round on 17 August, losing 14-21, 21-13, 19-21 in 73 minutes to Ayush Shetty (IND). Our tournament page writes the same match from Shetty's side as 21-14, 13-21, 21-19. ⚡Of the 16 seeds who played on day one, only two lost: Shi and Weng Hongyang. Our page also records that when the BWF published its five title favourites on 14 August, Shi was the first name on the list.

China Masters 2026

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

He entered as the 6th seed and lost his first round on 1 September, 11-21, 10-21 to Loh Kean Yew (SGP). Our tournament page records it as a former world No. 1 leaving a home event one-sidedly. ⚠️That made it three defeats in a row in the matches we hold, two of them first-round exits (see three straight defeats).

The eight matches we recorded for Shi Yuqi from 14 July to 1 September 2026 are four wins and four losses (his two Asian Games 2026 matches are not in this count). But two of the four wins came when his opponent retired mid-match. He played out only two of them from start to finish, and both came at the Japan Open in July — the first round and the second.

• ✅14 July｜Japan Open first round: 🇯🇵Yudai Okimoto 21-15, 21-15 in 59 minutes. One of the two wins he played out from start to finish.
• ✅16 July｜Japan Open second round: Brian Yang (CAN) 16-21, 21-19, 21-18 in 65 minutes, from a game down — the other win he played to the end.
• ⚠️China Open first round: Jason Teh (SGP) retired during the second game. We did not record the score.
• ⚠️23 July｜China Open second round: Panitchaphon Teeraratsakul (THA) 17-21, 21-2. Shi lost the opening game, and his opponent retired during the third.
• 🔻The four defeats: the Japan Open quarter-final (Christo Popov 21-14, 10-21, 11-21 in 63 minutes), the China Open quarter-final (Chou Tien-chen 14-21, 21-12, 15-21), the World Championships first round (Ayush Shetty 14-21, 21-13, 19-21) and the China Masters first round (Loh Kean Yew 11-21, 10-21). Only at the Japan Open did he take the opening game and still lose.

Every result above comes from our own pages, and we do not explain why any of it happened. ⚠️Our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries, so these eight are not his whole 2026.

In our records, the three matches between 24 July and 1 September are three defeats in a row — and two of them were first-round exits.

• 24 July｜China Open quarter-final: Chou Tien-chen (TPE, 6th seed) 14-21, 21-12, 15-21. Our tournament page writes it from Chou's side as 21-14, 12-21, 21-15 and records it as the win that ended nine straight defeats for Chou.
• 17 August｜World Championships first round: Ayush Shetty (IND) 14-21, 21-13, 19-21 in 73 minutes. The defending champion and top seed, out in his opening match. Our page writes it from Shetty's side as 21-14, 13-21, 21-19.
• 1 September｜China Masters first round: Loh Kean Yew (SGP) 11-21, 10-21, out in the opening round as the 6th seed.

📉His place in the ranking moved over the same stretch. Our China Open 2026 page describes him in July as world No. 1. The World Championships seeding was set on the ranking of 31 July 2026, where he was the 1st seed. On the list of 8 September 2026 he is 6th. ⚡On that same list his total comes from 12 counted events — the fewest of anyone in its top 15, where the other 14 range from 16 to 27. ⚠️World ranking points roll over 52 weeks, so a change of position is not explained by one week's results. We put the dated figures side by side and leave it there.

Every ranking on this page carries its date. Rankings are updated weekly; check the BWF site for the current list.

⚠️The two results in this section are not counted in the eight above. Our Indonesia Open 2027 page carries the previous edition's final and semi-finals, but not Shi's rounds. His round-of-16 opponent's page, Yushi Tanaka, already has the match, so we record it on this side too (added on 25 September 2026). The event was a Super 1000 in Jakarta, 2 to 7 June 2026, and Shi was the top seed. Both agree with the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia on the points, the dates, the opponents and who won.

• ✅2 June, round of 32: beat Chi Yu-jen (TPE) 21-19, 21-19 in 49 minutes.
• 🔻4 June, round of 16: lost 16-21, 11-21 in 31 minutes to the unseeded Yushi Tanaka (JPN).

One win and one defeat, both in two games. Tanaka then lost his quarter-final 19-21, 22-24 to the 5th seed Jonatan Christie, who went on to finish runner-up.

🔁The first-round win is outside the eight, but it was played to the end, not a retirement. "Two wins fought to the end" above refers only to the eight in the results cards.

Sources: the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia, with the same score for both. Our tournament pages are built around the final rounds and the leading Japanese entries, so Shi's rounds are not on the tournament page.

• 2025 — BWF World Championships — champion
  Paris. Our own 2026 World Championships page records him as "the defending champion, Shi Yuqi (CHN, 1st seed)", and the medal table on the English Wikipedia article gives the same 2025 Paris gold. English Wikipedia names Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA) as his opponent in that final.
• 2026 — Badminton Asia Championships — first title
  Ningbo. A Badminton Spirit report dated 12 April 2026 leads with "Shi Yuqi takes his first Asian title on home soil", and the English Wikipedia medal table gives the same 2026 Ningbo gold. ⚡English Wikipedia names Ayush Shetty (IND) as the beaten finalist, citing an announcement by the Nantong municipal government dated 14 April 2026. Four months later the same opponent knocked him out in the first round of the World Championships.
• 2018 & 2025 — All England Open — champion twice
  His Badminton Spirit career summary (2018: All England Super 1000, winner; 2025: All England Super 1000, winner) and the title lists on English Wikipedia agree. The first came at 21.
• 2018 — BWF World Championships — silver
  Nanjing. His Badminton Spirit career summary (2018: World Championships, silver) and the English Wikipedia medal table agree. It was his only World Championships medal until the 2025 title.
• 2022 edition — Asian Games — men's singles silver
  The games were postponed a year and held in Hangzhou from 28 September to 7 October 2023. The medal table for the previous edition on our own Asian Games 2026 page (gold Li Shifeng, silver Shi Yuqi) and his Badminton Spirit career summary (2023: Hangzhou Asian Games, silver) agree. At the 2026 edition (20 to 29 September, Ichinomiya, Aichi) he took team silver and went out in the third round of the individual event.
• 2024 — BWF World Tour Finals — champion
  His Badminton Spirit career summary (2024: World Tour Finals, winner) and the title list on English Wikipedia agree; it was his second, after 2018. The career-high column of the English Wikipedia ranking table reads No. 1 on 11 June 2024, but we hold only one source for that single figure, so we quote it with its source rather than assert it.

📅The most recent event we record for him is the Asian Games 2026, held from 20 to 29 September in Ichinomiya, Aichi. China took silver in the men's team event, beaten 2-3 by Indonesia in the final; in the opening match of that final on 24 September he beat Jonatan Christie 21-13, 21-18 (45 minutes). In the individual men's singles he lost the third round on 26 September to Yoo Tae Bin (KOR) 17-21, 23-25. We have not recorded his earlier matches in either the team or the individual event. ⚠️These two matches are not in the eight-match count above (scores from Shi's side). Our medal table for the 2022 edition (held in Hangzhou in 2023) lists him as the men's singles silver medallist.

In the European autumn swing, the Denmark Open 2026 (13 to 18 October, Odense) is under way, and next comes the French Open 2026 from 20 to 25 October near Paris, both Super 750. The season closes with the BWF World Tour Finals 2026 in December.

⚠️ Our Denmark Open page is written around the Japanese entries, and we have no match of Shi Yuqi 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.

"Four wins and four losses" tells you nothing about the eight matches. In our records (the eight matches from 14 July to 1 September), two of the four wins ended with the opponent retiring. Counting wins alone gives a picture of the summer that the matches themselves do not support. All we publish is the score on our tournament page, and the fact that a retirement happened.

🔴Our tournament pages follow the Japanese entries. That means a page about a player from another country has more gaps than one about a Japanese player. Here we hold no score for his China Open first round, and nothing from his European events. Where we hold nothing, we say so.

🇯🇵Read alongside a Japanese player's page and the same day looks different. On Yushi Tanaka's page, the opening day of the 2026 World Championships is the line where an unseeded player beats a seed. On the same day the top seed lost the line you see above. Our World Championships page records both inside one sentence: only two seeds lost on day one.

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