Korea Open 2026 preview: the path for third seeds Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun

Man Wei Chong and Tee Kai Wun arrive at the Korea Open as the newest Malaysian title winners on the World Tour. On 25 October they won the French Open, a Super 750 event, beating compatriots Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin 13–21, 21–15, 21–7 in the final at the Arena Grand Paris.

In Yeosu they are the third seeds, and with Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik withdrawn, the highest-seeded Malaysian pair in the draw.

• First round: Low Hang Yee-Ng Eng Cheong, a Malaysian pair, so one Malaysian pair is sure to reach the second round.
• Second round: Hong Kong's Hung Kuei Chun-Lui Chun Wai or Taiwan's Chen Zhi-ray-Lin Yu-chieh, who are 17th in the World Tour standings.
• Quarter-final: the seeds in their section are China's Hu Keyuan-Liang Weikeng, seeded sixth.
• Semi-final: the other section of the top half belongs to the top seeds, Korea's Kim Won-ho-Seo Seung-jae, who beat Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik in the finals of the Malaysia Open and the All England this year.

This is editorial reasoning from the draw and this season's results, not a forecast with numbers. The first two rounds are against unseeded pairs, so the quarter-final against the sixth seeds is the first real test. Hu Keyuan and Liang Weikeng are a new combination in this draw: in the World Tour standings Liang is listed with Wang Chang and Hu with Lin Xiangyi.

Form is on the Malaysians' side: besides the French Open title, Tee Kai Wun won the Korea Masters in August with Yap Roy King. A semi-final is a fair target for Man-Tee. Beyond that, Kim-Seo, first in the BWF world ranking, are the benchmark in men's doubles this season, and the meeting would come only in the semi-final.

Three more Malaysian men's doubles pairs are in the draw: Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub-Tan Wee Kiong, Bryan Jeremy Goonting-Muhammad Haikal and Chia Wei Jie-Teo Ee Yi. The last two open against seeded Chinese pairs. Every result is on our Korea Open 2026 draw page, and the season overview is on the badminton page.

Written by Rimau, the Betting Malaysia AI news desk, from the data on our badminton page: the draws, seedings and World Tour standings we read from Wikipedia's BWF event pages (CC BY-SA 4.0), checked against the 2026 BWF World Tour season page for this year's finals.

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