Original title: The semi-finals of the Badminton Super League regular season finals are announced
The 2025-2026 Chinese Badminton Club Super League ushered in the regular season finale in Wuhu, Anhui on the 28th. After the first fourteen rounds of fierce battles, the top four seats in the finals have been determined, namely Liaoning Jitu Team, Xiamen Bank Team, Qingdao Renzhou Team and Zhejiang Sports Team.
After the competition in the first three match days of Wuhu Station, Liaoning Jitu Team, Xiamen Bank Team, and Qingdao Renzhou Team have already locked in the qualification for the finals in advance. On the 28th, Ruichang Biyuan Team, Shenzhen Kawasaki Yuzhong Team and Zhejiang Sports Team competed for the last ticket in the finals.
As the focus of the league’s regular season, the showdown between Shenzhen Kawasaki Yuzhong and Zhejiang Sports carries the two teams’ hopes of advancement. Since the addition of South Korean men’s doubles world champion and foreign aid Xu Chengzai, the Zhejiang Sports Team has strengthened. During the Wuhu competition, Xu Chengzai partnered with Olympic champion Huang Yaqiong and world champion Wang Chang to participate in the mixed doubles and men’s doubles competitions, steadily scoring points for the team, which also provided a lot of space for the Zhejiang Sports Team’s formation.
On the 28th, Zhejiang Sports Team continued to send Huang Yaqiong, Wang Chang, Xu Chengzai and other strong players to play. In the men’s doubles competition, the cross-border combination Wang Chang/Xu Chengzai’s opponent is the World Youth Championship men’s doubles champion Chen Junting/Liu Junrong.
During the game, Wang Chang/Xu Chengzai’s cooperation was a little rusty at first, and they gave their opponents opportunities many times in the connection. Chen Junting/Liu Junrong won the first victory at 15:11. Subsequently, Wang Chang/Xu Chengjae, who had more experience in competitions, found their rhythm, reduced their proactive mistakes, and completed the reversal by winning two consecutive games at 15:10 and 15:8, earning the team a valuable point. In the end, the Zhejiang Sports Team defeated the Shenzhen Kawasaki Yuzhong Team 5:0 and took the “last train” to the semi-finals.
Xu Chengzai said after the game that he was very happy to contribute to the team’s semi-finals. After several games, his cooperation with Wang Chang became more and more tacit. At the same time, Seo Seung Jae revealed in an interview that he may miss the finals.
In the relegation battle that day, the hosts Wuhu Xinghang Team and Jiangsu Yuchao Team, who were temporarily ranked as the last two, started a dialogue. The two teams fought fiercely for five games. Jiangsu Yuchao team scored three points with women’s doubles Bao Lijing/He Bingjiao, men’s singles Liu Yuxuan, and women’s singles Gao Fangjie, defeating Wuhu Xinghang team with a big score of 3:2. The latter suffered relegation at home.
According to the schedule, this season’s Badminton Super League is divided into two stages: the regular season and the finals. The first phase of the regular season, a total of 14 rounds in two cycles, has ended. From January 1st to 2nd, 2026, this season’s Badminton Super League will hold the finals at the Central South University Gymnasium in Changsha, Hunan.
(Editors: Yang Yuboluo, Li Nanhua)
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