Masataka Morizono

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Masataka Morizono Table tennis player
Masataka Morizono
ITTF World Tour 2017 German Open, Magdeburg, Germany, 7 Nov 2017 - 12 Nov 2017, Masataka Morizono
Nation: JapanJapan Japan
Date of birth: April 5, 1995
Playing hand: left handed
How to play: Shakehand
Current world rankings : 55
Best world ranking : 21 (August 2015)
Clubs as active:
2011-2015 GermanyGermany TTC Frickenhausen
2015-2016 Czech RepublicCzech Republic STEN marketing HB Ostrov
2016-2018 GermanyGermany ASV Grünwettersbach
2018– JapanJapan Okayama Rivets
Last update of the infobox: March 13, 2020

Masataka Morizono ( Japanese 森 薗 政 崇 , Morizono Masataka ; born April 5, 1995 in Nishitōkyō , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese table tennis player . In doubles with Yūya Ōshima , he won the World Tour Grand Finals twice and was runner-up in 2017 .

Career

Masataka Morizono started playing table tennis at the age of four. He first appeared internationally in 2009 and took part in the World Junior Circuit, and in 2013 he won the World Junior Circuit Finals. This year he was active for the first time on an international level in the adult sector and moved up to the top 100 in the world rankings . At the Polish Open, he won silver in doubles with Kohei Sambe and thus his first medal on the World Tour . Together they also won the Japanese championship . Morizono won his first individual medal on the World Tour in 2014 when he finished second at the Spanish Open. In singles and doubles with Kohei Sambe he was so successful that he qualified for the Grand Finals in both competitions , where he was eliminated in the first round. At the Japanese championship, Morizono won gold again alongside Sambe. In 2011 he was signed by TTC Frickenhausen , where he initially played in lower-class teams and played in the Bundesliga from the 2014/15 season . In 2015, the club withdrew the team from the first division for financial reasons.

From 2015 Morizono no longer played doubles with Kohei Sambe, but with Yūya Ōshima . That year he took part in his first world championship , in which he reached the quarter-finals in doubles, at the Universiade he won gold in singles. He also played successfully on the World Tour again, so that he moved up to position 21 in the world rankings, participated in the Grand Finals again and even won the gold medal with Yūya Ōshima. They won bronze at the Asian Cup. In the 2015/16 season, Morizono played in the Czech Republic for Club STEN marketing HB Ostrov , for whom he had a score of 5: 4 in the Champions League . With third place in the group stage, the team qualified for the quarter-finals of the ETTU Cup , but was eliminated there against Istres TT . Among other things, by winning the German and Polish Open, Morizono and Ōshima qualified again for the Grand Finals in 2016 , where they won silver. For the 2016/17 season he moved to Bundesliga club ASV Grünwettersbach , for whom he achieved a score of 16: 5 as the best player in the league. At the World Cup in 2017 he won silver in the doubles at the Universiade gold in singles and doubles as well as silver in the team. At the end of the year he won the Grand Finals in doubles for the second time , and in the TTBL he was again the best player with a 16: 4 record.

In 2018 he left Grünwettersbach and joined the Japanese association Okayama Rivets. That year he also appeared in mixed with Mima Itō and was able to reach the semifinals at the Grand Finals both with her and in doubles with Ōshima. However, he was not nominated for the team world championship, but for the individual world championship 2019 , where he reached the quarter-finals with Itō. On the World Tour in 2019 he competed in doubles, mainly with Maharu Yoshimura , but for the first time since 2013 he was unable to qualify for the Grand Finals in any competition.

Double partner

Private

Masataka Morizono's sister Misaki and his brother Mizuki also play table tennis internationally.

Results overview

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team U-21
JPN Asian Championship 2017 Wuxi CHN Quarter finals silver
JPN Asian Championship 2015 Pattaya THA last 32 Semifinals Quarter finals
JPN ITTF Challenge Series 2019 Asunción PAR gold gold
JPN ITTF Challenge Series 2018 Bangkok THA silver Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2019 Linz AUT Agony Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2019 Busan COR Agony Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2019 Doha QAT last 32 Quarter finals silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Linz AUT Agony gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Panagyurishte BUL last 16 silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Geelong OUT last 32 silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Shenzhen HKG Agony Quarter finals silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Hong Kong HKG Agony silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Bremen GER Agony Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2017 Tokyo JPN Agony Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2017 Doha QAT Agony gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2017 New Delhi IND last 16 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Warsaw POLE last 32 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Doha QAT last 32 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Berlin GER last 32 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Stockholm SWE last 16 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Kobe JPN last 16 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Zagreb HRV last 16 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2014 Ekaterinburg RUS last 16 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2014 Olomouc CZE Quarter finals gold last 16
JPN ITTF World Tour 2014 Incheon COR last 64 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2014 Almeria ESP silver Quarter finals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2013 Spała POLE silver
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2018 Incheon COR Semifinals Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2017 Astana KAZ gold
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2016 Doha QAT silver
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2015 Lisbon POR gold
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2014 Bangkok THA last 16 Quarter finals
JPN Universiade 2017 Taipei TPE gold gold silver
JPN Universiade 2015 Gwangju COR gold
JPN World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN last 32 last 32 Quarter finals
JPN World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER silver
JPN World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN Quarter finals
JPN World Junior Circuit 2012 Platja d'Aro ESP gold
JPN World Junior Circuit 2012 Taipei TPE gold
JPN World Junior Circuit 2009 Gold coast OUT Semifinals
JPN World Junior Circuit Finals 2013 Guatemala GUA gold

literature

  • Hartmut Binder: Everybody's Darling , tischtennis magazine , 2017/4, pages 16-18

Web links

Commons : Masataka Morizono  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
  2. ↑ Masataka Morizono. ttbl.de, accessed on November 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Frickenhausen announces his withdrawal from the TTBL. mytischtennis.de, January 14, 2015, accessed November 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Morizono to Grünwettersbach. ttbl.de, February 2, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Table tennis Bundesliga 2016/17 player ranking list (total). click-tt.de, accessed on April 4, 2017 .
  6. ↑ WM: Morizono vice-world champion in doubles. ttbl.de, June 4, 2017, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Universiade: All gold and silver medals go to Asia. mytischtennis.de, August 30, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Table tennis Bundesliga 2017/18 player ranking list (total). click-tt.de, accessed on April 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ TTBL: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran signs in Grünwettersbach. tt-news.de, accessed on April 1, 2018 .
  10. ↑ New Japanese league "T.League" in the starting blocks. mytischtennis.de, September 26, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Mixed triumph after injury drama. tischtennis.de, April 24, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 2019 ITTF World Tour. ittf.com, accessed March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Morizono, Masataka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 森 薗 政 崇 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1995