Ahn Se-young & Chen Yufei Badminton Results & Updates

▲ In this bracket, where many top rankers such as Ahn Se-young are missing, there are virtually no resources to stop Chen Yu-fei. It will be interesting to see whether Chen Yufei, who finished the first two games in less than an hour, will maintain her crushing performance in the remaining quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals.

[스포티비뉴스=조용운 기자] Chen Yufei (28, world ranking 4th), the star of Chinese badminton, is enjoying the international stage where Ahn Se-young (24, Samsung Life Insurance) is absent.

Chen Yufei won the women’s singles round of 16 of the 2026 Badminton World Federation (BWF) Indonesia Masters (Super 500) held in Jakarta, Indonesia, against Yuli Darwal Jacobsen (39, Denmark) with a score of 2-0 in just 26 minutes and settled in the quarterfinals.

Chen Yufei sent Ukraine’s Polina Bukhrova home in 27 minutes in the round of 32 held the previous day, and showed off her unrivaled firepower by ending the game in less than 30 minutes for the second day in a row.

In fact, in the bracket where the huge wall called Ahn Se-young has disappeared, Chen Yu-fei’s presence is nothing short of fear to other players. In this tournament, the top ranked players, including Ahn Se-young and Wang Ziyi (2nd place, China), chose to take a break after completing a killer schedule at the beginning of the year, and their power has been somewhat weakened. For Chen Yufei, who skipped the year-end World Tour Finals due to national quota issues, the optimal stepping stone has been set for her to enter without blood while taking care of both her physical superiority and practical sense.

The round of 16 match against Jacobsen was so one-sided that it was embarrassing to call it a match. It seemed like a close match was taking place for a moment at the beginning of the first game, but Chen Yufei geared up at 4-3 and quickly widened the score gap, taking the lead to 21-7. There were no reversals in the next two games either. Chen Yufei finished the game with a score of 21-9 with an impeccable defense that did not allow even 10 points to the opponent and a sharp attack.

Looking at the record of the round of 32, Chen Yufei’s solo system is more clearly revealed. In the game against Bukhrova, while she showed incredible concentration by scoring 9 consecutive points in 2 games, her opponent only secured 6 points. The total time Chen Yufei spent on the court over two days was only 53 minutes. While most players were playing one game, Chen Yufei bombed the shuttlecock in two consecutive games and secured a ticket to the quarterfinals.

▲ In this bracket, where many top rankers such as Ahn Se-young are missing, there are virtually no resources to stop Chen Yu-fei. It will be interesting to see whether Chen Yufei, who finished the first two games in less than an hour, will maintain her crushing performance in the remaining quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. ⓒ World Badminton Federation

The class shown by Chen Yufei in the absence of Ahn Se-young clearly proves that he is among the best in the world. That’s right, Chen Yu-fei is almost the only one whose relative match record is not inferior to Ahn Se-young at the moment. Their overall record is 14 wins and 14 losses. Last season, while Ahn Se-young achieved an unprecedented record of 73 wins and 4 losses, Chen Yu-fei also showed weakness, but still maintained the image of a strong opponent by suffering two losses.

Although this year’s Indonesia Masters is a Super 500 tournament with a total prize money of 500,000 dollars (approximately 734 million won), the weight is somewhat lower, but for Chen Yu-fei, it is a golden opportunity to take advantage of Ahn Se-young’s break and achieve the perfect result of winning in a clean set. Chen Yu-fei, who recently gave up the match against Ahn Se-young in the semifinals of the Malaysian Open due to poor physical condition, was left disappointed, so her progress in getting back on track is drawing even more attention.