On September 13, Beijing time, the 2025 China Hong Kong Badminton Open super500 continued.
The defending champions of this site, An Sailong, Han Yue, Xu Chengzai/Jang Minhe, Chen Kangle/Tina, Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin:
An Sailong was beaten 12-0 in his first comeback, with a big score of 0-2, Naraoka made great achievements, the latter ended the match with six consecutive losses and won the first victory.
Han Yue is the only player to advance to the finals and is expected to win the fourth championship in this level in his career, but in the finals, he lost both times in the finals this year!
2023 World Championship champion Seung-jae/Jang Min-hyuk broke the right move, and Seung-jae and her new partner Kim Won-ho successfully defended their title in the World Championships, and Kang Min-hyuk could only start from scratch with the newcomers!
Chen Kangle/Tina reached the final last week's World Championships, and fought with the world's No. 1 Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning until the final game. She lost 17-21 in the final game, but it also created history. She was Malaysia's first women's doubles medal in the World Championships. This site stopped in the semi-finals, with a big score of 0-2 Jia Yifan/Zhang Shuxian, who was beaten 10-1 in the first game, and was beaten 6-0 in the second game and defeated 5-0 in the second game.
Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin lost the derby and lost to Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui in the decisive game. The latter won a game back from last week's World Championships, which was also the first personal victory. Wei Yaxin missed the three consecutive championships in the tournament and won the championship with Guo Xinwa in 2023. At that time, he was the highest-level champion in Guo Xinwa's career! However, this year he partnered with Chen Fanghui to win the All England Championship.
【Semi-finals】
Li Shifeng VS Xiao Popov
The No. 2 seed in the 4th World Championships faced the 10th World. The two sides fought three times, Li Shifeng won 2 wins and 1 loss. The last time he was in the super300 semi-final of the 2025 Swiss Badminton Open, Li Shifeng lost 19-21, 14-21!
Li Shifeng played in the Malaysian Badminton Masters in May 2025, defeating Srikant 21:11 and 21:9 in the final, becoming the first Chinese men's singles player to top the game in the history of the event. He is also his first championship in the season and the 8th single-event championship in his personal career.
Christo Popov advanced to the semi-finals in the World Youth Badminton Championships in October 2019, becoming the first French player to win the cards in the World Youth Championship. In the end, Popov lost to Kunlavut Witisan, who dominated the last three consecutive games in the finals, and won the runner-up. Speaking of which, there are many talents among the players of Kunlavut. He is the leader of the Yulin men's singles post-00s. After the Hangzhou Asian Games, I thought Li Shifeng's success will surpass Kunlavut and come from behind! But Kunlavut topped the World Championships that year, and won medals for three consecutive World Championships. This year, he reached the World Championships finals. In the past four years, he won one gold, one silver and one bronze medal in the World Championships and one silver medal in the Paris Olympics, and completely firmly ranked first in the post-00s! The second seat should belong to Li Shifeng. Although he finished in the top 32, top 16 and top 64 in the three World Championships, he won double gold medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games and was the number one man born in the 2000s! He is also the first post-00s to win the All England men's singles championship!
Nara Okao is third, and he has only a handful of results on the tour, with only one super750 champion in the Chinese Masters. But he was the runner-up of the 2023 World Championships and once ranked in the top2. Lakshyasen ranked fourth. He was the first post-2000s to win a World Championship medal. He reached the semi-finals in the Olympics last year. He eventually lost to Li Zijia in the bronze medal and won fourth place. The fifth is Raniere. Raniere did not have a tough record in defeating Anselon, but he beat Popov Jr. to rank first in France. He was the super750 champion of the Japanese badminton Open last year and the best result of the French men's singles in the Badminton Tour. The sixth is Popov, who currently holds 8 individual championships in his career, but has no high-level tour champion yet. This season, he reached the semi-finals of five individual competitions, two of which were runner-up, both of which were super300 levels.
In the last round, Li Shifeng narrowly defeated Liang Junhao 22-20, 14-21, 22-20, and advanced to the men's singles semi-finals, achieving two consecutive victories in the two sides. Popov narrowly won 21-18, 9-21, 29-27 and won two consecutive victories.
In this duel, Li Shifeng led the whole game, 5-0 at the beginning, Popov was close to the score of 12-13 but failed. Li Shifeng scored three points in a row and started again, winning the first game 21-18. The second game was tied three times at the beginning of the game and reached 5-4. Li Shifeng made an 8-0 offensive and took the lead and maintained the advantage until the end. He was beaten 5-0 after winning the match point 20-14. Fortunately, he was safe and won another game 21-19. Promoted to the finals with a big score of 2-0 against Zhou Tiancheng or Lakshyasen!
