Denmark Open 2026 Results: An Se-young Wins From a Game Down, India Loses From a Game Up
An Se-young lost the opening game of the Denmark Open final and won the title anyway. Three Indians did the opposite that week: won the first game, then lost the match. India’s campaign in Odense ended in the quarter-finals, and the fastest smash of the tournament belonged to a player who went out in round one. The full results, and what the 401 km/h on the speed board is actually telling you.
The five titles
Event
Champion
Final
Men’s singles
Alex Lanier (France)
beat Anders Antonsen 21-15, 13-21, 21-13
Women’s singles
An Se-young (Korea)
beat Akane Yamaguchi 21-23, 21-14, 21-18
Men’s doubles
Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri (Indonesia)
beat Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik
Women’s doubles
Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan (Malaysia)
beat Hinata Suzuki and Nao Yamakita 21-18, 21-11
Mixed doubles
Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin (China)
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VICTOR Denmark Open 2026 champions, SJF Bank Arena, Odense, 13-18 October
An Se-young came from 11-5 down in the decider
The women’s singles final was the best match of the week. Akane Yamaguchi took the first game 23-21, An Se-young levelled it, and then went 5-11 down in the third before winning 21-18 on an ankle she had turned earlier in the tournament. It was her ninth title of 2026 and the 47th international title of her career, which took her past Susi Susanti’s 46 and made her the most decorated women’s singles player the sport has had. A week later in Paris she made it ten.
Alex Lanier went through an Indian to get there
The seventh seed beat Anders Antonsen in the final in front of a Danish crowd, having knocked Kidambi Srikanth out in the round of 16 on the way. Srikanth took the first game of that match 21-11 and lost the next two 15-21, 15-21, which was the shape of India’s entire week.
India, round by round
Player or pair
Out in
Result
Tanvi Sharma
Quarter-final
Lost to An Se-young 15-21, 13-21 in 38 minutes
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand
Quarter-final
Lost to Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan 21-14, 17-21, 11-21
Kidambi Srikanth
Round of 16
Lost to Alex Lanier 21-11, 15-21, 15-21
Ashmita Chaliha
Round of 16
Reached the last 16
PV Sindhu
Round of 32
Lost to Yvonne Li 21-13, 23-25, 19-21
Lakshya Sen
Round of 32
Lost to Chou Tien-chen 18-21, 21-13, 15-21
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
Round of 32
Lost to He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu in three games
Ayush Shetty
Round of 32
Lost to Alwi Farhan
Unnati Hooda
Round of 32
Lost in the first round
How India’s entries finished at the Denmark Open 2026
The best Indian story of the week was Tanvi Sharma, who is 16. She beat Natsuki Nidaira 21-17, 16-21, 21-19 and then beat Yvonne Li 21-17, 21-19 - the same Yvonne Li who had put Sindhu out two rounds earlier - before running into An Se-young. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand beat the world No. 10 pair to reach their quarter-final. Satwik and Chirag, seeded fifth, went out in the first round for the second tournament running, against a pair they had beaten in their previous four meetings.
Sindhu hit the fastest smash of the week
BWF publishes a SuperSmash board at its tournaments, built from the same tracking that produces the shot speeds on broadcast. At Odense the women’s singles board put PV Sindhu top at 401.0 km/h, 23.2 km/h clear of An Se-young. She played one match. It is worth being precise about what the board is: it ranks the ten fastest individual smashes of the week, not the ten fastest players, which is why An Se-young holds two of the ten places.
#
Player
km/h
1
PV Sindhu (India)
401.0
2
An Se-young (Korea)
377.8
3
Mia Blichfeldt (Denmark)
373.4
4
Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt (Denmark)
371.6
5
Nguyen Thuy Linh (Vietnam)
367.3
6
An Se-young (Korea)
363.0
7
Huang Yu-hsun (Chinese Taipei)
361.5
8
Line Christophersen (Denmark)
359.8
9
Tanvi Sharma (India)
359.8
10
Tomoka Miyazaki (Japan)
355.3
Ten fastest women’s singles smashes, Denmark Open 2026
What 401 km/h is actually measuring
It is the shuttle’s speed in the instant it leaves the strings, and nothing else. A shuttlecock decelerates faster than any other projectile in sport, so a smash clocked at 401 km/h off the racket is travelling a fraction of that by the time it reaches the other side. This is the same arithmetic behind Satwiksairaj Rankireddy’s 565 km/h world record, which was set in a testing rig rather than a rally. That is not a reason to dismiss the number. Racket-head speed is a real measure of how cleanly a player strikes, and 401 km/h is a serious hit. It is a reason to stop reading it as a measure of whether the smash worked.
Three defeats from a game up, in one week
An Se-young lost game one of the final and won the title. Sindhu, Srikanth, and Treesa and Gayatri each won game one and went out. Scores from the named player’s side.
Sindhu won her first game 21-13 and lost. Srikanth won his 21-11 and lost. Treesa and Gayatri won theirs 21-14, led 14-11 in the second, and lost. That is three of India’s nine entries losing from in front at a single Super 750, on top of five Indian defeats from a game up in Aichi three weeks earlier. The following week in Paris, PV Sindhu did it again in a final. An Se-young, meanwhile, lost the first game of the Odense final and won. The gap between the two is not speed off the racket.
Who won the Denmark Open 2026?
An Se-young won the women’s singles and Alex Lanier the men’s singles. Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri took the men’s doubles, Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan the women’s doubles, and Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin the mixed doubles.
How did India do at the Denmark Open 2026?
India’s best results were quarter-final places for Tanvi Sharma in women’s singles and Treesa Jolly with Gayatri Gopichand in women’s doubles. PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty, Unnati Hooda and the fifth seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty all went out in the first round.
How fast was PV Sindhu’s smash at the Denmark Open 2026?
401.0 km/h, the fastest women’s singles smash of the tournament on the BWF SuperSmash board and 23.2 km/h clear of the next entry. She lost in the first round to Yvonne Li.
Why does An Se-young appear twice on the smash list?
The board ranks the ten fastest individual smashes of the tournament rather than the ten fastest players, so one player can hold more than one place.
Is 401 km/h the speed the shuttle crosses the net at?
No. It is the speed in the instant the shuttle leaves the racket. A shuttlecock slows down faster than any other projectile in sport, so it is travelling far slower by the time it reaches the opponent.
Who beat PV Sindhu at the Denmark Open 2026?
Germany’s Yvonne Li, ranked outside the top 40 and a late call-up from the reserve list, won 13-21, 25-23, 21-19 after saving match points in the second game. Li was then beaten by India’s Tanvi Sharma in the round of 16.
Results and smash speeds as published by the BWF. The men’s doubles and mixed doubles final scorelines are not quoted here because the available reports disagree. Photograph by AFP. If you hold rights to an image on this page and want it credited differently or removed, write to support@kreeda.tech. Kreeda is not affiliated with the BWF, Badminton Denmark or BAI.
