China Vs Japan Highlights, Uber Cup 2026 Semi-Finals: Tomoka Miyazaki Loses To Yu Fei Chen In Singles Match

Hello badminton fans! We're back to make your weekend even special with the live coverage of the Uber Cup 2026 semi-final between nemesis China and Japan in Horsens, Denmark. Stay tuned for the live coverage and real-time updates of the match here.

Matches

• Singles: Zhi Yi Wang Vs Akane Yamaguchi

• Doubles: Sheng Shu Liu/Ning Tan Vs Yuki Fukushima/Mayu Matsumoto

• Singles: Yu Fei Chen Vs Tomoka Miyazaki

• Doubles: Yi Fan Jia/Shu Xian Zhang Vs Arisa Igarashi/Kai Nakanishi

• Singles: Yue Han Vs Riko Gunji

• People's Republic of China

• Japan

• Indonesia

• Republic of Korea

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In the other semi-final, it's China's Wang Zhi Yi against Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in Uber Cup 2026 semi-final. The action will begin soon.

Great start this for the Japanese. Yamaguchi goes 3-0 up against the Chinese opponent. Just the start she was looking for and she has got one now in Horsens.

Great start from Akane Yamaguchi, who takes a 12-5 lead against Wang Zhi Yi, who seems to be struggling against her Japanese opponent.

Akane Yamaguchi has raced to a 16-9 lead in the first game and is on course to win it with China's Wang Zhi Yi struggling to find her rhythm going in Horsens.

Oh hello! What do we have here? Yamaguchi was coasting along in the first game but Wang Zhi Yi has turned on the boosters as she makes it 17-18 in Horsens. We have a match on here folks!

A close battle this! Yamaguchi will be ruing the fact she did not close this game out as Wang Zhi Yi has taken a 21-20 lead.

Just wow! This was an intense battle between two giants of badminton and Yamaguchi just about nicks it with 23-21 victory over Wang Zhi Yi.

Akane Yamaguchi 23-21 Wang Zhi Yi

Wang Zhi Yi comes racing out of the blocks in the second game as she races to a 11-5 lead over Yamaguchi.

China's Wang Zhi Yi takes it to the third game. She wins the second game 21-11 with ease. Yamaguchi has all to play for now in the third and vital game.

Akane Yamaguchi 23-21, 11-21 Wang Zhi Yi

A blockbuster start to the women's Uber Cup 2026 semi-final between China and Japan. Yamaguchi was made to sweat in the first game before she lost the second to Wang Zhi Yi. The third game is again turning out to be a mouth-watering affair with the Chinese leading 11-10.

This gruelling contest has come to an end and it goes the way of the Chinese shuttler. Wang Zhi Yi has won 21-23, 21-11, 21-16 against Akane Yamaguchi.

Chinese pair of Liu Sheng Shu/Tan Ning are up against Japan's Yuki Fukushima/Mayu Matsumoto in the women's doubles match.

Liu Sheng Shu/Tan Ning are tied up 7-7 in the first game against the Japanese pair of Yuki Fukushima/Mayu Matsumoto.

Liu Sheng Shu/Tan Ning have won the first game 21-18 against their Japanese opponents in under 24 minutes.

Chinese pair on the verge of clinching game 2 as they lead 19-13 in the second game. Liu Sheng Shu/Tan Ning are a deadly combo and are showing as to why they are the defending champions of this trophy.

China take a 2-0 lead in the semi-finals after their women's doubles pair Liu Sheng Shu/Tan Ning clinch second game and the match.

They win 21-18, 21-14 against the Japanese opponents.

Japan have a chance to bring themselves back in the semis or it's curtains as Tomoka Miyazaki goes up against Yu Fei Chen.

Chinese shuttler Yu Fei Chen leads 21-11 from the first game but is trailing 5-8 in the second game against Tomoka Miyazaki of Japan.

Tomoka Miyazaki's valiant effort falls short as she loses 11-21, 20-22 to China's Yu Fei Chen.