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Yushi Tanaka Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

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🏸 2026 results📅 What's next

Yushi Tanaka (田中湧士, NTT East, men's singles) is 26 years old and World No. 17 as of 13 October 2026. This page lists every 2026 result with the score of each match, and every entry links to our tournament page for that event. 🏆At the Swiss Open in March he came in unseeded and won the title, five matches and five wins, and the following week he went out in the second round of the Orleans Masters as the 6th seed (→ March: six wins, one defeat). At the Daihatsu Japan Open in July he beat 8th seed LI Shi Feng (CHN) and Kunlavut VITIDSARN (THA) to reach the semi-finals — and all four of his matches went to three games. Forty-six days after beating Kunlavut he drew him again in the first round of the China Masters. This is an unofficial fan summary: the profile below only uses what the Nippon Badminton Association and his club publish officially — we do not write about injuries or private life.

Team
NTT East
Event
Men's singles
Swiss Open 2026
Champion, unseeded
Orleans 2026
Second round, 6th seed
Japan Open 2026
Semi-finals
As of 13 Oct 2026
World No. 17

🏸 2026 results

Every 2026 result we record for Yushi Tanaka, tournament by tournament. Tournament names link to our summary page for that event (draw, the other Japanese entries, and how to follow the broadcast). 🆕The first card is the Swiss Open in March, which he won unseeded. ⚠️Among pages devoted to an event of their own from the first half of 2026, we hold only two — the Japan Ranking Circuit in May and the All Japan Corporate Team Championships in June, and Tanaka appears on neither. The Swiss Open is here because our own Swiss Open 2027 page carries the 2026 result with all five scores; we turned it into a card on 20 September 2026 (until then this page said we had no page at all for January to April). The second card is the Orleans Masters the following week, where he was the 6th seed and won one of two; those two results come from our own Orleans Masters 2027 page (published on 21 September 2026), and we turned them into a card on 22 September 2026. Nine events are listed.

3/10〜15 🥇 Champion, unseeded

Swiss Open 2026

Super 300・Basel, Switzerland

🏆He came in unseeded and won the title, five matches and five wins. On 11 March he beat Switzerland's Julien Scheiwiller 20-22, 21-10, 21-11; on 12 March, Magnus Johannesen (DEN) 21-16, 21-14; on 13 March, compatriot Koki Watanabe in the quarter-finals 21-14, 21-17; on 14 March, Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA) 21-17, 21-12; and on 15 March, 6th seed Alwi Farhan (INA) in the final 21-18, 21-12. Only the first round went to three games; the other four finished in straight games. ⚠️English Wikipedia's list of the eight men's singles seeds for that event does not include him.
🆕Added on 20 September 2026: these five were already on our own Swiss Open 2027 page as the 2026 results, while this page still said we had no page at all for January to April — our own site disagreed with itself. ⚠️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.

3/17〜22 🏸 Second round

Orleans Masters 2026

Super 300・Orléans, France

Tanaka won this event in 2024 and came back in 2026 as the 6th seed. On 18 March he beat Moh. Zaki UBAIDILLAH (INA) 21-15, 21-11 in 35 minutes; on 19 March he lost 18-21, 21-17, 18-21 in 62 minutes to HU Zhe An (CHN), who had come through qualifying. Hu then beat top seed Chou Tien Chen 12-21, 21-18, 21-16 in the quarter-finals.
🆕Added on 22 September 2026: these two results were already on our own Orleans Masters 2027 page as the 2026 results. The Nippon Badminton Association's day pages for 18 and 19 March, the English Wikipedia draw and BWF's official match data agree on the opponent, the score and the date. Match times are from BWF's official data.

7/14〜19 🥉 Semi-finals

Daihatsu Japan Open

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

His deepest run of 2026 at Super 750 level or above. He beat 8th seed LI Shi Feng (CHN) 21-17, 19-21, 21-15 in the first round, LEE Cheuk Yiu (HKG) 14-21, 21-10, 21-11 in the second and Kunlavut VITIDSARN (THA) 20-22, 21-16, 21-18 in the quarter-finals to reach the semi-finals, where he lost to compatriot Koki Watanabe 21-19, 21-23, 19-21. All four matches went to three games.

7/21〜26 🏸 First round

China Open

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

This Super 1000 started three days after his Japan Open semi-final. He went out in the first round to Lakshya SEN (IND) 20-22, 21-15, 14-21 — another three-game match, the opener decided by two points at 20-22. Sen was World No. 13 in men's singles on 25 August 2026.

8/17〜23 🏸 Third round

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

Unseeded, he beat 16th seed WENG Hong Yang (CHN) 21-17, 21-14 in 43 minutes on day one, 17 August. Only two seeds lost that day — top seed Shi Yuqi and Weng. In the second round on 19 August he beat Ade Resky DWICAHYO (AZE) 21-18, 21-14 in 35 minutes, and in the third round on 20 August he lost to 6th seed CHOU Tien Chen (TPE) 14-21, 9-21, finishing in the last 16.

9/1〜6 🏸 First round

China Masters

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

In the first round on 1 September he lost to 3rd seed Kunlavut VITIDSARN (THA) 21-15, 14-21, 20-22 in 66 minutes, having taken the opening game 21-15 and pushed the decider to 20-22. It was the same opponent he had beaten in the Japan Open quarter-finals in July.

9/20〜29 🏸 Team event: Japan out in the QF

Asian Games 2026

Asian Games・Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan

He was one of the ten men in Japan's squad (named on 19 May 2026) and, with Koki Watanabe, entered for the team event only in men's singles (he was World No. 19 on the list used for that announcement, dated 5 May 2026). Japan's men (seeded 4th) beat Kazakhstan 3-0 in the first round on 21 September and lost 0-3 to India in the quarter-final on 22 September. Tanaka was one of the ten men registered for the team event, but we have not recorded his team matches.

10/31〜1/31 📅 His club won last season

S/J League 2026-27

Japan domestic league・NTT East, men's S block

Japan's top domestic league. Tanaka's club NTT East won the men's title in S/J League 2025 and plays in the men's S block in 2026-27. The regular season runs from 31 October to 31 January, with the TOP4 Tournament on 20 and 21 February at Yokohama BUNTAI. Line-ups for each fixture are chosen by the clubs, so we do not guess at names.

12/24〜30 📅 Two-time champion

80th All Japan Championships

All Japan Championships・Chofu, Tokyo

Japan's national championship. Tanaka won the men's singles title in 2021 (75th edition) and 2024 (78th edition). The 80th runs from 24 to 30 December 2026 at Keio Arena TOKYO in Chofu. The 2025 title, at the 79th edition, went to his NTT East team-mate Kodai Naraoka. The draw is usually published one or two weeks before the event.

Scores are written from Yushi Tanaka's point of view (Tanaka's points first). Only matches completed by 22 September 2026 are listed. Matches in progress are not listed.

🔁 The same opponent twice

On 17 July 2026 Tanaka beat Kunlavut VITIDSARN of Thailand in the Japan Open quarter-finals. Forty-six days later, on 1 September, he drew him again in the first round of the China Masters. Kunlavut was World No. 3 in men's singles on 25 August 2026 with 86,915 points, and won the 2023 World Championships. We held both matches as primary records — but on two separate tournament pages, so they could not be read side by side.

A chart comparing the two 2026 meetings between Yushi Tanaka and Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand: the Japan Open quarter-final on 17 July, won 20-22, 21-16, 21-18, and the China Masters first round 46 days later on 1 September, lost 21-15, 14-21, 20-22 in 66 minutes. A game ending 20-22 appears in both matches. On 25 August 2026 Kunlavut was World No. 3 and Tanaka World No. 19. The chart is labelled in Japanese.
Two meetings 46 days apart. Scores are written from Tanaka's point of view. The chart is labelled in Japanese.

🏸All four of his Japan Open matches went to three games. He beat 8th seed LI Shi Feng (CHN) 21-17, 19-21, 21-15 on 15 July, LEE Cheuk Yiu (HKG) 14-21, 21-10, 21-11 on 16 July, Kunlavut on 17 July, and lost the semi-final to compatriot Koki Watanabe 21-19, 21-23, 19-21 on 18 July. In three of the four he lost the opening game, and won two of those from behind.

Every score above comes from our own tournament pages. World rankings are updated every week, so every ranking on this page is written with its date.

🏆 March: six wins, one defeat

🏆At the Swiss Open 2026 (BWF World Tour Super 300, St. Jakobshalle, Basel, 10–15 March), Tanaka came in unseeded and won the title. We hold all five matches, five wins and no defeats — five of the eleven wins we record for him in 2026 up to 1 September (the Arctic Open and Denmark Open matches after that are not in this count).

A chart of the sixteen 2026 matches this site holds for Yushi Tanaka, grouped by tournament: five wins and no defeats at the Swiss Open in March, one win and one defeat as the 6th seed at the Orleans Masters the following week (21-15, 21-11 against Moh. Zaki Ubaidillah of Indonesia, then 18-21, 21-17, 18-21 against qualifier Hu Zhe An of China), three wins and one defeat at the Japan Open in July, one defeat at the China Open in July, two wins and one defeat at the World Championships in August, and one defeat at the China Masters in September. Eleven wins and five defeats in total, with eight of the sixteen going to three games. Scores are written from Tanaka's point of view. The chart is labelled in Japanese.
The sixteen matches we hold with a score for each (up to 1 September). Written from Tanaka's point of view. The chart is labelled in Japanese.

🔁In the sixteen matches up to 1 September, two opponents met Tanaka twice, and both series finished one win each. One is Kunlavut Vitidsarn, above; the other is Koki Watanabe — Tanaka won the Swiss Open quarter-final 21-14, 21-17 on 13 March and lost the Japan Open semi-final 21-19, 21-23, 19-21 on 18 July. Those two records sit on two different tournament pages; only re-sorting by player puts them side by side. (At the Arctic Open in October he met both a third time, beating Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the quarter-final and Koki Watanabe in the semi-final.)

🇫🇷The following week he went to the Orleans Masters 2026 (Super 300, Orléans, France), the event he had won in 2024, this time as the 6th seed, and went out in the second round.

🔴In Basel only his opening match went to three games; in Orléans his second one did, and he lost it. Across the two March events he won six of seven, and the one defeat went to three games.

All five Swiss Open results were checked against the Nippon Badminton Association's day-by-day results for the Swiss Open 2026 and the draw for the 2026 Swiss Open on English Wikipedia, which agree on the opponent, the score and the date. ⚠️The association's page for 12 March labels the second round "third round". We do not publish figures we have not verified, so no match times are given for the Swiss Open: neither source publishes them. The two Orleans Masters results agree across our own Orleans Masters 2027 page, the association's day pages for 18 and 19 March, the English Wikipedia draw for the 2026 Orléans Masters and BWF's official match data, which is also where the match times come from.

🔥 Beat the top seed

⚠️The three results in this section are not counted in the sixteen above. Our Indonesia Open 2027 page carries the previous edition's final and semi-finals, but not Tanaka's rounds. His quarter-final opponent's page, Jonatan Christie, already has the match, so we record it on this side too (added on 24 September 2026). The event was a Super 1000 in Jakarta, 2 to 7 June 2026, and Tanaka was unseeded. All three agree with the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia on the points, the dates, the opponents and who won.

Yushi Tanaka's three matches at the Indonesia Open 2026, unseeded. Round of 32 on 2 June: beat Srikanth Kidambi (IND) 21-19, 21-15 in 37 minutes. Round of 16 on 4 June: beat the top seed Shi Yuqi (CHN) 21-16, 21-11 in 31 minutes. Quarter-final on 5 June: lost 19-21, 22-24 in 49 minutes to the 5th seed Jonatan Christie (INA). All three went to two games; four games won and two lost.
Scores are from Tanaka's side. Match times come from the official BWF day data. The figure is labelled in Japanese.

Quarter-finalist with two wins and one loss, all in two games (four games won, two lost). Christie went on to win his semi-final and finished runner-up.

🔁In what we record, this is Tanaka's only 2026 meeting with Shi Yuqi. Shi's side of 2026 is on Shi Yuqi's page.

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

🏆 Career highlights

📅 What's next

At the 2026 Asian Games in Ichinomiya, Aichi (20 to 29 September), he was entered for the team event only in men's singles, along with Koki Watanabe. Japan's men beat Kazakhstan 3-0 in the first round and lost 0-3 to India in the quarter-final (we have not recorded his team matches).

🗓️October in Europe: First, on the Nippon Badminton Association's self-funded list (published 11 September 2026), he finished runner-up at the Arctic Open 2026 (6–11 October, Finland, Super 500) as an unseeded player. He beat home player Joakim OLDORFF (FIN) 21-13, 21-13 (33 minutes), seventh seed Toma Junior Popov (FRA) 21-10, 21-19 (38 minutes), came from a game down to beat top seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA) 14-21, 21-13, 21-16 (62 minutes), and beat eighth seed Koki Watanabe 21-14, 11-21, 21-16 (63 minutes) in an all-Japanese semi-final. In the final on 11 October he lost to fourth seed Anders Antonsen (DEN) 21-16, 16-21, 25-27 (87 minutes), the deciding game going to extra points. ⚠️These five matches are not yet in the sixteen-match count above (up to 1 September). Next, as part of the Japan squad named the same day, he played the Denmark Open 2026 (13–18 October, Super 750) and lost to NG Ka Long Angus (HKG) 12-21, 22-20, 15-21 in the first round on 14 October (⚠️not in the count above either); the French Open 2026 (20–25 October, Super 750) follows, where the main draw published on 15 October gives him the 5th seed, CHOU Tien Chen (TPE), in the first round (unseeded; BWF; withdrawals after the draw are still possible, so please check the BWF draw for the latest).

After Europe the season turns domestic. S/J League 2026-27 starts on 31 October, and his club NTT East won the men's title last season. Then comes the 80th All Japan Championships from 24 to 30 December — an event Tanaka won in 2021 and 2024.

⚠️ Neither the S/J League line-ups nor the All Japan draw has been published. We do not guess at names. Linked pages are in Japanese unless marked EN.

👤 Profile

NameYushi Tanaka (田中湧士)
EventMen's singles
TeamNTT East (Tokyo, Japan)
Born5 October 1999
FromKumamoto Prefecture, Japan (Nihon University)
Height170cm
PlaysRight-handed
World rankingWorld No. 17 as of 13 October 2026
59,305 points from 21 counted events. On 15 September 2026 he was No. 18 with 55,105 points, so he has moved up 1 place. That equals his career high of World No. 18, dated 12 May 2026. World rankings are updated every week, so this is a dated record, not a current figure. Check the BWF website for the latest list.

Source — Nippon Badminton Association national team page and NTT East badminton team official player page (in Japanese). This profile only uses what those official pages publish. We do not write about injuries, health or private life.

🔍 Keep your own scoresheet

Eight of the sixteen matches we record for Tanaka in 2026 up to 1 September went to three games — exactly half. All four at the Japan Open did, so did the China Open the following week and the China Masters in September. The Swiss Open in March was the other way round: only the first round of his five went to three (at the Orleans Masters the following week, his second-round defeat did). The sixteen are eleven wins and five defeats, and four of the five defeats went to three games — the only straight-games loss was the World Championships third round. (The Arctic Open and Denmark Open matches after that are not in this count.)

🔴A results table does not show who he beat. On the ranking list dated 25 August 2026, Li Shi Feng was World No. 10, Kunlavut Vitidsarn No. 3 and Weng Hong Yang No. 18 — Tanaka himself was No. 19 on the same list. None of those three names appears in a line that just reads "first round" or "semi-finals".

🏫Something else shows up only when our player pages are read side by side. Tanaka's club, NTT East, is also Kodai Naraoka's. The 2021 All Japan final was between two players who are now team-mates — Tanaka was a student at Nihon University at the time. With Kenta Nishimoto, the three of them were Japan's men's singles entries at the 2026 World Championships.

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❓ Frequently asked questions

Who does Yushi Tanaka play for?

NTT East, a company team based in Tokyo, Japan. The Nippon Badminton Association's national team page lists his team as NTT East, and so does NTT East's own badminton team page; in the domestic S/J League the club plays in the men's S block in 2026-27. He was born on 5 October 1999, is 170cm, right-handed, from Kumamoto Prefecture, and went to Yatsushiro Higashi High School and then Nihon University. This page only uses what those two official pages publish.

What is Yushi Tanaka's world ranking?

World No. 17 in men's singles as of 13 October 2026, with 59,305 points from 21 counted events. On 15 September 2026 he was No. 18 with 55,105 points, so he has moved up 1 place. The official BWF ranking (Week 42) and the specialist outlet Badminton Spirit's list dated 13 October agree on the place, the points and the number of counted events. That equals his career high of World No. 18, dated 12 May 2026. World rankings are updated every week, so please read this as a dated record rather than a current figure, and check the BWF website for the latest list.

How far did Yushi Tanaka go at the 2026 Japan Open?

To the semi-finals. He beat 8th seed Li Shi Feng (CHN) 21-17, 19-21, 21-15 in the first round on 15 July, Lee Cheuk Yiu (HKG) 14-21, 21-10, 21-11 in the second on 16 July, and Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA) 20-22, 21-16, 21-18 in the quarter-finals on 17 July. In the semi-final on 18 July he lost to compatriot Koki Watanabe 21-19, 21-23, 19-21. All four matches went to three games.

How far did Yushi Tanaka go at the 2026 World Championships?

To the third round, the last 16. Unseeded, he beat 16th seed Weng Hong Yang (CHN) 21-17, 21-14 in 43 minutes on day one, 17 August; only two seeds lost that day, top seed Shi Yuqi and Weng. He beat Ade Resky Dwicahyo (AZE) 21-18, 21-14 in 35 minutes in the second round on 19 August, then lost to 6th seed Chou Tien Chen (TPE) 14-21, 9-21 in the third round on 20 August with a quarter-final place at stake.

What are Yushi Tanaka's 2026 results so far?

In the events we record: the title at the Swiss Open (Super 300, Basel) in March, won unseeded; the second round at the Orleans Masters (Super 300, Orléans) the following week as the 6th seed; the semi-finals at the Daihatsu Japan Open (Super 750, Tokyo) in July; the first round at the China Open (Super 1000, Changzhou) in July; the third round at the 2026 BWF World Championships in New Delhi in August; and the first round at the China Masters (Super 750, Shenzhen) in September. Up to 1 September that is sixteen matches, eleven wins and five defeats (the Arctic Open and Denmark Open matches after that are not in this count), and eight of the sixteen — exactly half — went to three games. Outside those, he reached the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Open (Super 1000, Jakarta) in June, unseeded, beating the top seed Shi Yuqi 21-16, 21-11 and losing to Jonatan Christie 19-21, 22-24; that event is not counted in the sixteen.

How far did Yushi Tanaka go at the 2026 Orleans Masters?

To the second round. Seeded 6th at the Orleans Masters 2026 (BWF World Tour Super 300, Orléans, France, 17 to 22 March), he beat Moh. Zaki Ubaidillah (INA) 21-15, 21-11 in 35 minutes on 18 March, then lost 18-21, 21-17, 18-21 in 62 minutes on 19 March to Hu Zhe An (CHN), who had come through qualifying and went on to beat top seed Chou Tien Chen in the quarter-finals. Tanaka won this event in 2024, and had won the Swiss Open unseeded the week before. Our sources are our own Orleans Masters 2027 page (2026 results), the Nippon Badminton Association's day-by-day results, the English Wikipedia draw and BWF's official match data; opponent, score and date agree across them.

Did Yushi Tanaka win the 2026 Swiss Open?

Yes. At the Swiss Open 2026 (BWF World Tour Super 300, Basel, 10 to 15 March) he came in unseeded and won the title with five matches and five wins. He beat Switzerland's Julien Scheiwiller 20-22, 21-10, 21-11 on 11 March, Magnus Johannesen (DEN) 21-16, 21-14 on 12 March, compatriot Koki Watanabe 21-14, 21-17 in the quarter-finals on 13 March, Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA) 21-17, 21-12 in the semi-final on 14 March, and 6th seed Alwi Farhan (INA) 21-18, 21-12 in the final on 15 March. Only the first round went to three games. English Wikipedia's list of the eight men's singles seeds for that event does not include him. All five were checked against the Nippon Badminton Association's day-by-day results and the draw on English Wikipedia.

How did Yushi Tanaka do at the Indonesia Open 2026?

He reached the quarter-finals, unseeded. He beat Srikanth Kidambi of India 21-19, 21-15 on 2 June and the top seed Shi Yuqi of China 21-16, 21-11 on 4 June, then lost the quarter-final on 5 June 19-21, 22-24 to the 5th seed Jonatan Christie of Indonesia. All three went to two games, with four games won and two lost. We checked all three against the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia. This event is not counted in the sixteen in the results cards.

How old is Yushi Tanaka, and what has he won?

He was born on 5 October 1999 and is 26 as of 4 September 2026. His main titles are two All Japan Championships men's singles titles (the 75th edition in 2021 and the 78th in 2024), the Orleans Masters in March 2024 on the BWF World Tour Super 300, and the 2019 All Japan Intercollegiate Championships. In the 2024 All Japan final he beat his NTT East team-mate 21-19, 21-17 for his second national title, three years after his first.

How did Yushi Tanaka do at the 2026 Asian Games?

He was entered for the team event only. Japan's men (seeded 4th) beat Kazakhstan 3-0 in the first round on 21 September 2026 and lost 0-3 to India in the quarter-final on 22 September. Tanaka was one of the ten men registered for the team event, but we have not recorded his team matches. In men's singles he and Koki Watanabe were the team-only entries, while Kodai Naraoka and Kenta Nishimoto also played the individual event. The venue was Ichinomiya Municipal Gymnasium in Aichi.

📮 Corrections and removal. This is an unofficial summary built from published information. If anything here is factually wrong, or if the player or their team would like this page taken down, please contact us and we will correct or remove it promptly. We do not publish anything about injuries, health or private life.

Last updated . Sources — Nippon Badminton Association national team page, NTT East badminton team official player page, match results recorded on our own tournament pages (each confirmed against two sources), and the BWF World Ranking as of 13 October 2026. Japanese version: https://takeorilab.ybcjr.com/senshu/tanaka-yushi/