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Yuta Watanabe (渡辺 勇大, Watanabe Yūta, born 13 June 1997) is a Japanese badminton player.[1] He is a member of the Nihon Unisys team, and national team A representative.[2] He is known for his quick and explosive movements with his signature drop shots on court. Watanabe has collected three bronze medals at the World Junior Championships, and also four bronze at the Asian Junior Championships. Watanabe was selected to join the Japanese mixed team compete at the 2017 Sudirman Cup in Gold Coast, Australia, winning a gold medal in the qualification to Gold Coast at the 2017 Asia Mixed Team Championships in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the team finished in the semi-final round, took the bronze medal. The left-handed Watanabe has won Super 1000 tournaments a total of five times, and was the first ever male player from Japan to win an All England Open title, first at the 2018 All England Open in the mixed doubles event partnered with Arisa Higashino, then in the 2020 All England Open in the men's doubles event with Hiroyuki Endo, and in both men's and mixed doubles in the 2021 All England Open, defending his men's doubles title with Hiroyuki Endo and winning the mixed doubles category with once again, Arisa Higashino. Watanabe won the mixed doubles bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, defeating Hong Kong's Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet in the bronze medal match.[3]

Yuta Watanabe
渡辺 勇大
Yuta Watanabe with Hiroyuki Endo
Personal information
CountryJapan
Born (1997-06-13) 13 June 1997 (age 25)
Suginami, Japan
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
HandednessLeft
Men's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking4 (MD with Hiroyuki Endo 5 March 2019)
1 (XD with Arisa Higashino 8 November 2022)
Current ranking2 (XD with Arisa Higashino 15 November 2022)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Mixed doubles
World Championships
2021 Huelva Mixed doubles
2022 Tokyo Mixed doubles
2019 Basel Mixed doubles
Sudirman Cup
2019 Nanning Mixed team
2021 Vantaa Mixed team
2017 Gold Coast Mixed team
Thomas Cup
2018 Bangkok Men's team
2020 Aarhus Men's team
2022 Bangkok Men's team
Asian Games
2018 Jakarta–Palembang Men's team
Asian Championships
2019 Wuhan Men's doubles
2022 Manila Mixed doubles
Asia Team Championships
2020 Manila Men's team
Asia Mixed Team Championships
2017 Ho Chi Minh Mixed team
2019 Hong Kong Mixed team
World Junior Championships
2014 Alor Setar Mixed doubles
2014 Alor Setar Mixed team
2015 Lima Boys' doubles
Asian Junior Championships
2014 Taipei Boys' doubles
2014 Taipei Mixed team
2015 Bangkok Boys' singles
2015 Bangkok Mixed team
BWF profile

Career overview


Watanabe started his career in badminton when he join the Kodaira junior club in Tokyo in 2005. He had shown his talent in badminton when he won some national event when he was in the elementary school. He made a partnership with Arisa Higashino as his senior in Tomioka Dai-ichi Junior High School in 2012.[2]

Watanabe was selected to join national junior team competed at the 2014 Asian Junior Championships, and helped the team win the mixed team bronze medal. He also settled for another bronze medal in the boys' doubles event partnered with Kenya Mitsuhashi. At the World Junior Championships in Alor Setar, Malaysia, he won the bronze medals in the mixed doubles event with Arisa Higashino and in the mixed team event.[4][5] In June 2014, he made his first appearance in the senior international event at the Japan Open, competed in the mixed doubles with Higashino, but the duo was defeated in the first round. He captured two titles at the 2014 Korea Junior Open in the boys' and mixed doubles event teamed-up with Mitsuhashi and Chiharu Shida respectively.

Watanabe started the 2015 season, by winning the boys' doubles title at the Dutch Junior tournament with Kenya Mitsuhashi, and finished as the semifinalist in the mixed doubles with Chiharu Shida, and later won the mixed doubles title in German Junior tournament. In July, he competed at the Asian Junior Championships, clinched the bronze medals in the boys' singles and mixed team events. He reached his first final in the senior international event at the 2015 Russian Open a BWF Grand Prix tournament. At the Danish Junior Cup, he clinched two titles by winning the boys' singles and doubles events. In November, he won the boys' doubles bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru.

Watanabe won his first senior international tournament at the Vietnam International Challenge in the mixed doubles event with Arisa Higashino, and also became the runner-up in the men's doubles event.[6] Together with Higashino, they reaching the 2018 All England Open final beat three top seeding, and clinched the title after beating the fifth seeded pair from China Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong in the rubber game.[7]


2021


In March, Watanabe won both the men's and mixed doubles disciplines in the All England Open with Hiroyuki Endo and Arisa Higashino. He was the first player in over 19 years to accomplish such a feat.[8] In July, he competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the men's doubles partnering Endo, and in the mixed doubles with Higashino. Watanabe and Endo's pace was stopped in the quarter-finals to eventual gold medalists Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin, while in the mixed doubles, Watanabe and Higashino clinched a bronze medal after winning the bronze medal game against Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet in straight games.[9][10]


Achievements



Olympic Games


Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2020 Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan Arisa Higashino Tang Chun Man
Tse Ying Suet
21–17, 23–21 Bronze

BWF World Championships


Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2019 St. Jakobshalle,
Basel, Switzerland
Arisa Higashino Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
11–21, 15–21 Bronze
2021 Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín,
Huelva, Spain
Arisa Higashino Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
13–21, 14–21 Silver
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium,
Tokyo, Japan
Arisa Higashino Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
13–21, 16–21 Silver

Asian Championships


Men's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2019 Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium,
Wuhan, China
Hiroyuki Endo Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo
21–18, 21–3 Gold

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2022 Muntinlupa Sports Complex,
Metro Manila, Philippines
Arisa Higashino Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
12–21, 22–24 Bronze

BWF World Junior Championships


Boys' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2015 Centro de Alto Rendimiento de la Videna,
Lima, Peru
Kenya Mitsuhashi He Jiting
Zheng Siwei
13–21, 16–21 Bronze

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2014 Stadium Sultan Abdul Halim,
Alor Setar, Malaysia
Arisa Higashino Huang Kaixiang
Chen Qingchen
19–21, 12–21 Bronze

Asian Junior Championships


Boys' singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2015 CPB Badminton Training Center, Bangkok, Thailand Lin Guipu 10–21, 12–21 Bronze

Boys' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2014 Taipei Gymnasium,
Taipei, Taiwan
Kenya Mitsuhashi Huang Kaixiang
Zheng Siwei
10–21, 8–21 Bronze

BWF World Tour (12 titles, 11 runners-up)


The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[11] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.[12]

Men's doubles

YearTournamentLevelPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2018 Malaysia Open Super 750 Hiroyuki Endo Takeshi Kamura
Keigo Sonoda
8–21, 10–21 Runner-up
2018 Thailand Open Super 500 Hiroyuki Endo Takeshi Kamura
Keigo Sonoda
17–21, 19–21 Runner-up
2018 Korea Open Super 500 Hiroyuki Endo Takuro Hoki
Yugo Kobayashi
9–21, 21–15, 21–10 Winner
2018 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals Hiroyuki Endo Li Junhui
Liu Yuchen
15–21, 11–21 Runner-up
2019 German Open Super 300 Hiroyuki Endo Takeshi Kamura
Keigo Sonoda
15–21, 21–11, 21–12 Winner
2019 New Zealand Open Super 300 Hiroyuki Endo Mohammad Ahsan
Hendra Setiawan
22–20, 15–21, 17–21 Runner-up
2019 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals Hiroyuki Endo Mohammad Ahsan
Hendra Setiawan
22–24, 19–21 Runner-up
2020 All England Open Super 1000 Hiroyuki Endo Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo
21–18, 12–21, 21–19 Winner
2021 All England Open Super 1000 Hiroyuki Endo Takeshi Kamura
Keigo Sonoda
21–15, 17–21, 21–11 Winner

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result
2018 All England Open Super 1000 Arisa Higashino Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
15–21, 22–20, 21–16 Winner
2018 Hong Kong Open Super 500 Arisa Higashino Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
21–18, 21–14 Winner
2019 Malaysia Masters Super 500 Arisa Higashino Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
21–18, 21–18 Winner
2019 All England Open Super 1000 Arisa Higashino Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
17–21, 20–22 Runner-up
2019 Thailand Open Super 500 Arisa Higashino Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
22–24, 21–23 Runner-up
2019 Hong Kong Open Super 500 Arisa Higashino He Jiting
Du Yue
22–20, 21–16 Winner
2021 All England Open Super 1000 Arisa Higashino Yuki Kaneko
Misaki Matsutomo
21–14, 21–13 Winner
2021 Denmark Open Super 1000 Arisa Higashino Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
21–18, 21–9 Winner
2021 French Open Super 750 Arisa Higashino Mathias Christiansen
Alexandra Bøje
21–8, 21–17 Winner
2021 Indonesia Open Super 1000 Arisa Higashino Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
12–21, 13–21 Runner-up
2021 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals Arisa Higashino Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
19–21, 11–21 Runner-up
2022 All England Open Super 1000 Arisa Higashino Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
21–19, 21–19 Winner
2022 Indonesia Open Super 1000 Arisa Higashino Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
14–21, 16–21 Runner-up
2022 Japan Open Super 750 Arisa Higashino Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
21–16, 21–23, 18–21 Runner-up

BWF Grand Prix (1 runner-up)


The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2015 Russian Open Arisa Higashino Chan Peng Soon
Goh Liu Ying
13–21, 21–23 Runner-up
  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (1 title, 2 runners-up)


Men's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2016 Austrian Open Kenya Mitsuhashi Marcus Ellis
Chris Langridge
14–21, 16–21 Runner-up
2016 Vietnam International Kenya Mitsuhashi Ong Yew Sin
Teo Ee Yi
19–21, 14–21 Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2016 Vietnam International Arisa Higashino Tinn Isriyanet
Pacharapun Chochuwong
21–16, 21–14 Winner
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament

Performance timeline


Key
W F SF QF #R RR Q# A G S B NH N/A DNQ
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

National team


Team events20142015
Asian Junior Championships B B
World Junior Championships B 4th
Team events201720182019202020212022
Asia Mixed Team Championships G NH S NH
Asia Team Championships NH QF NH A NH A
Asian Games NH B NH
Thomas Cup NH S NH B B
Sudirman Cup B NH S NH S NH

Individual competitions



Junior level

Event2015
Asia Junior Championships B
World Junior Championships 2R
Event20142015
Asia Junior Championships B 1R
World Junior Championships 1R B
Event2014
Asia Junior Championships 3R
World Junior Championships B

Senior level


Men's singles

TournamentGrand PrixBest
2015
Russian Open 1R 1R ('15)
Year-end ranking 1,091 973

Men's doubles

Event2017201820192020
Asian Championships 2R QF G NH
World Championships 2R 3R 2R NH
Olympic Games NH QF
TournamentBWF Superseries / Grand PrixBWF World TourBest
2015201620172018201920202021
Syed Modi International A 1R A NH 1R ('18)
German Open A SF 1R W NH W ('19)
All England Open A 1R SF 2R W W W ('20, '21)
Korea Open A W 2R NH W ('18)
Korea Masters A QF A NH QF ('16)
Thailand Open A F SF NH F ('18)
Indonesia Masters A NH 1R QF A QF ('19)
Indonesia Open A 1R 2R QF NH A QF ('19)
Malaysia Open A 1R F 1R NH F ('18)
Malaysia Masters A SF 2R QF A NH SF ('17)
Singapore Open A 1R A 2R NH 2R ('19)
Japan Open A 2R A 1R QF NH QF ('19)
U.S. Open A 2R A NH 2R ('16)
Denmark Open A 1R QF w/d A QF ('19)
French Open A 2R SF NH A SF ('19)
Hong Kong Open A 2R A 1R SF NH SF ('19)
Australian Open A 2R A 1R NH 2R ('17)
New Zealand Open A F NH F ('19)
China Open A 1R 1R 1R QF NH QF ('19)
Fuzhou China Open A 2R 2R NH 2R ('18, '19)
Russian Open 2R A NH 2R ('15)
U.S. Grand Prix 1R N/A NH 1R ('15)
Superseries / World Tour Finals DNQ F F DNQ F ('18, '19)
Year-end ranking 224 62 27 5 6 5 5 4
Tournament2015201620172018201920202021Best

Mixed doubles

Event201720182019202020212022
Asian Championships 1R 2R QF NH B
Asian Games NH QF NH
World Championships 2R 3R B NH S S
Olympic Games NH B NH
TournamentBWF Superseries / Grand PrixBWF World TourBest
201420152016201720182019202020212022
India Open A 1R A 1R ('17)
German Open A 1R 2R QF NH 1R QF ('19)
All England Open A SF W F 2R W W W ('18, '21, '22)
Korea Open A QF QF NH A QF ('18, '19)
Korea Masters A 2R A NH A 2R ('16)
Thailand Open A 1R F NH SF F ('19)
Indonesia Masters A NH 1R SF A SF A SF ('19, '21)
Indonesia Open A 2R QF 1R NH F F F ('21, '22)
Malaysia Open A 1R SF 1R NH 1R SF ('18)
Malaysia Masters A 1R W A NH QF W ('19)
Singapore Open A 1R A 1R NH A 1R ('17, '19)
Japan Open 1R Q8 2R A SF QF NH F F ('22)
US Open A 2R A NH 2R ('16)
Denmark Open A 1R 1R w/d W QF W ('21)
French Open A SF SF NH W w/d W ('21)
Hylo Open A w/d
Hong Kong Open A 2R A W W NH W ('18, '19)
Australian Open A 1R A SF NH w/d SF ('19)
New Zealand Open A QF A NH QF ('16)
China Open A QF 1R QF QF NH QF ('16, '18, '19)
Fuzhou China Open A SF A SF SF NH SF ('16, '18, '19)
Russian Open A F A NH F ('15)
Superseries / World Tour Finals DNQ SF SF DNQ F F ('21)
Year-end ranking 421 184 22 29 3 3 5 4 2
Tournament201420152016201720182019202020212022Best

References


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  2. "渡辺 勇大 Yuta Watanabe". Unisys (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  3. "Japan's Arisa Higashino and Yuta Watanabe win bronze in mixed doubles badminton". The Japan Times. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  4. "Jati BWF World Junior Championships 2014 (Eye-Level Cup)". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  5. "BWF World Junior Championships 2014 – Day 5: It's Eka Putri's Day". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  6. "Vietnam wins two gold medals at Hanoi Challenger". www.vietnambreakingnews.com. VietnamBreakingNews. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  7. "All England SF – A long day to the finals". Badzine.net. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. Sukumar, Dev; Pierre, Dianne (22 March 2021). "All England: Watanabe's Double the Highlight of Japan's Sweep". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  9. "Watanabe Yuta". Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  10. "Japan's Watanabe Yuta and Higashino Arisa win badminton mixed doubles bronze". Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 30 July 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  11. Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  12. Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.



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[de] Yuta Watanabe

Yuta Watanabe (jap. 渡辺 勇大, Watanabe Yuta; * 13. Juni 1997 in Suginami) ist ein japanischer Badmintonspieler.
- [en] Yuta Watanabe (badminton)

[fr] Yuta Watanabe (badminton)

Yuta Watanabe (渡辺 勇大, Watanabe Yuta?) est un joueur de badminton japonais né le 13 juin 1997 à Iwamizawa.



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