China Open Badminton 2026 — Results, Winners & Betting Takeaways

The China Open Badminton 2026 has concluded, and the trophies for all five disciplines have been handed out. The 35th edition of this BWF World Tour Super 1000 event ran from 21 to 26 July 2026 at the Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, with a total prize pool of USD 2,000,000 on the line across men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.

This recap picks up where our China Open Badminton 2026 preview and betting guide left off. That earlier guide covered the tournament's history, expected format and general betting markets before a ball was struck; this article is the results side of the story — every champion, how the Malaysian contingent got on, and what the finished draw means if you are weighing up badminton markets at Maxim88 going forward.

Below you will find the final result from all five draws, a discipline-by-discipline look at how Malaysia's representatives fared across the week in Changzhou, and a set of betting takeaways drawn directly from how the tournament actually played out — including the upset that reshaped the men's singles draw.

China Open 2026 — Full Results

All five China Open 2026 titles were decided across finals day on 26 July. The table below lists the champion, runner-up and final score for every discipline.

Chou Tien-chen's men's singles win was the standout individual story of the tournament. At 36, he became the oldest men's singles champion in Super 1000 history, and it was his first Super 1000 title since the 2019 Indonesia Open — as well as his first title of the entire 2026 season. Akane Yamaguchi's win over Chen Yufei gave her a second China Open women's singles crown, following her first back in 2017.

In the doubles draws, Indonesia's Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri successfully defended their men's doubles title, and China's Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning defended their women's doubles crown. The mixed doubles final needed 87 minutes and three tight sets, with Guo Xinwa and Chen Fanghui beating Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping — the defending champions, also from China. With the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles both staying in China, the host nation swept those two disciplines, even as men's singles went to Chinese Taipei and women's singles to Japan.

How the Malaysians Fared

Malaysia's best result of the week came in women's doubles, where fifth seeds Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan — ranked world No. 5 — reached the quarterfinals. Their run ended there on 24 July, losing 16-21, 16-21 in 46 minutes to Japan's Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto, ranked world No. 3 and eventual runners-up in that draw.

No other Malaysian went beyond the second round. In men's singles, Leong Jun Hao (world No. 27) lost to China's Weng Hongyang (world No. 18) 22-20, 11-21, 18-21 in a 70-minute match on 23 July. In men's doubles, fifth seeds Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin Rumsani — world No. 6 and the 2024 China Open champions — were beaten by Denmark's Mads Vestergaard and Daniel Lundgaard (world No. 16) 19-21, 21-12, 19-21 in a 55-minute second-round match, also on 23 July. Overall, no Malaysian player or pair reached the semifinals or a final at China Open 2026.

What the Results Mean for Bettors

The single biggest storyline of the tournament for outright and form bettors was Chou Tien-chen's quarterfinal win over Shi Yuqi. Shi entered as the defending champion and world No. 1 top seed, and Chou had lost nine straight matches to him — his win, 21-14, 12-21, 21-15, was his first over Shi since a September 2023 team event. That result eliminated China's last men's singles hope: all four Chinese men's singles entrants (Shi Yuqi, Weng Hongyang, Lu Guangzu and Li Shifeng) were out by the quarterfinal stage, leaving the host nation without a single men's singles semifinalist.

The lesson for outright and match-winner markets is a familiar one in badminton: a long losing head-to-head streak is not destiny, and a top seed carrying defending-champion status on home soil is not automatically the safest price once the draw tightens. A single result like Chou's quarterfinal upset can flip an entire discipline, which is exactly why odds tend to move sharply after a shock result rather than drifting gradually — bettors following outright markets through a tournament week benefit from watching for those inflection points rather than locking in a pre-tournament favourite and ignoring how the bracket actually plays out.

The doubles results are a useful reminder too. China's home crowd did not deliver a clean sweep — the host nation won two of the five titles (women's doubles and mixed doubles) while men's singles, women's singles and men's doubles all went to other countries. Home advantage is a real factor to weigh in doubles markets, but it is not a guarantee, and a defending champion pair — as Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping found out in the mixed doubles final — can still be beaten by a fresher opponent over a long, close match. For general frameworks on reading these swings as they happen, our live betting guide and value betting guide cover how to size up in-play momentum and pre-match pricing gaps without needing to predict a specific result in advance.

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