There were no upsets for badminton's reigning queen. Facing a rising Japanese contender in the final, An Se-young displayed overwhelming form that underscored her standing as the world's top women's singles player.
An Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), the world No. 1, beat Japan's Tomoka Miyazaki, ranked ninth, 2-0 (21-17, 21-6) in the women's singles final of the 2026 Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour China Masters, a Super 750 event, held in Shenzhen, China, on the 6th.
An won the world championships in August without losing a game from the round of 64 through the final, and she repeated the feat here, surrendering no games from the round of 32 onward.
The victory also gave her a third straight China Masters crown after titles in 2024 and 2025, tying her with longtime rival Chen Yufei of China, ranked fourth, for the most wins at the tournament.
An has now won 33 consecutive matches since losing to China's Wang Zhiyi, ranked second, in the All England Open final in March, giving her a 98% win rate this season. She has already lifted 10 trophies this season, including team events, and stands at 49 wins and one loss.
Miyazaki had reached the final by upsetting Wang Zhiyi in the semifinals, but An dominated the match.
An led early in the opening game and, after the score was tied at 9-9, allowed no further comeback on the way to taking the game comfortably.
The second game was easier still. She swept the first eight points to break her opponent's resolve at once, and closed out the match having conceded just six points to Miyazaki.
An returns home from the tournament and will attend media day for the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at the Jincheon National Training Center in North Chungcheong Province on the 8th before departing for the competition, where she will seek to become the first South Korean woman to win consecutive Asian Games singles titles.
