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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won the men's doubles title at the China Masters 2026 on 6 September 2026 at Shenzhen Arena, Shenzhen.
The Indian pair beat China's He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu 11-21, 21-13, 21-17 in a 70-minute comeback final.
They are the first Indian players to win the China Masters, an event that began in 2005.
It was their 10th career BWF World Tour title and their second of the 2026 season, after the Singapore Open in May.
They had finished runners-up at the China Masters in both 2023 and 2025.
World governing body for badminton; it organises the BWF World Tour, the elite annual circuit on which the China Masters is a Super 750 event, and has 202 member associations
Organises the Asian Games, held every four years; the 2026 edition follows soon after this tournament
The China Masters is launched as a badminton tournament
Satwik and Chirag reach the China Masters final and finish runners-up
The pair reach the semi-finals at Shenzhen
A second runners-up finish at the China Masters
The pair win the Singapore Open, their first Tour title since the 2024 Thailand Open
They win the China Masters, becoming the first Indians to take the title
The 20th Asian Games are held at Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from 19 September to 4 October 2026, with badminton from 20 to 29 September at the Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium
Satwik and Chirag hold the Asian Games men's doubles gold and go to Japan defending it
The Tour is graded Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500 and Super 300; the China Masters is a Super 750 event
Shenzhen Arena is a major indoor sports venue in Shenzhen, in China's Guangdong province, close to Hong Kong. The next major assignment is at Aichi-Nagoya in central Japan.
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The elite annual badminton circuit run by the Badminton World Federation, graded from Super 300 to Super 1000
The second-highest tier of BWF World Tour events, the level at which the China Masters is held
One of the five standard events in international badminton, alongside men's and women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles