Miu Hirano
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| Miu Hirano (German Open 2017) | |
| Other spellings: | 平野 美 宇 |
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| Date of birth: | April 14, 2000 |
| Playing hand: | right |
| How to play: | Shakehand (attack) |
| Current world rankings : | 7th |
| Best world ranking : | 5 (July 2017) |
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Miu Hirano ( Japanese 平野 美 宇 , Hirano Miu ; born April 14, 2000 in Numazu ) is a Japanese table tennis player . In 2016 she won the World Cup at the age of 16 . In 2017 she became the Asian champion.
Career
At the age of 12, Miu Hirano first appeared internationally in the adult division when she took part in the Japan Open in doubles with the then 11-year-old Mima Itō . Further appearances followed in 2013, when the two set a new record at the Qatar Open and made it to a semi-final as the youngest player in the history of the World Tour . At the end of the year, Miu Hirano moved up to 78th place in the world rankings , making it into the top 100 for the first time. The following year, Miu Hirano and Mima Itō won the double competition of the German Open at the age of 13, making them one of the youngest World Tour Title winners, which earned them an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . They also took part in the Grand Finals of the World Tour , where they also won the double competition. The first World Cup participation followed in 2015 , in which Miu Hirano reached the round of 32 in both singles and doubles. As a result, she improved to 19th place in the world rankings in June, her first placement in the top 20th. At the end of the year she won silver in doubles at the Grand Finals and was eliminated in singles in the second round.
As the fourth-best Japanese woman behind Ai Fukuhara , Kasumi Ishikawa and Mima Itō, she still did not take part in the 2016 World Cup (in contrast to Misako Wakamiya , who was placed behind her ), but won the individual competition at the Polish Open in April and thus her first individual title at the World Tour. She was also unable to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , so she qualified for the World Cup in October. Favored by the cancellations of the Chinese participants, she defeated, among others, the players Mima Itō, Feng Tianwei and Cheng I-Ching , who were seeded in position 1, 2 and 3, and thus won as the first non-Chinese player and the youngest player in the history of the World Cup the title. As a result, she also made it into the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time.
From October she played for ten match days in the Chinese Super League in Ordos and achieved a score of 3: 7 in the individual. With her final victory over Kasumi Ishikawa at the Japanese championship in 2016 , she became the youngest winner to date and thus secured a single starting place at the individual world championships in 2017 . At the 2017 Asian Championships, during which she turned 17, she defeated number 6 in the world rankings Cheng I-Ching , the reigning world and Olympic champion Ding Ning (No. 1 in the WRL) and Zhu Yuling (No. 2) and Chen Meng (No. 5), making her the youngest Asian champion in history. At the 2017 World Championships , she won bronze in singles and shortly thereafter reached fifth place in the world rankings, a new personal record, making her the best Japanese player for the first time. She could not defend her World Cup title, after losing to Liu Shiwen and Cheng I-Ching, she finished fourth in 2017 . In 2018 she took part in the Team World Cup for the first time , the team from Japan won silver. On the World Tour this year Hirano only got medals in doubles, at the Grand Finals at the end of the year she was eliminated in singles in the first round.
In 2019, she only competed individually at the World Cup and made it to the quarterfinals, in which she was defeated by Ding Ning. At the Czech Open , for the first time since 2016, she reached the World Tour finals in singles, and she also won several medals in doubles with Kasumi Ishikawa and Saki Shibata . With the latter, she also qualified for the Grand Finals , in which, however, as in the individual, she was eliminated in the first round.
Double partners
Listed only for at least three joint tournaments a year.
- 2013–2015: Mima Itō
- 2017: Kasumi Ishikawa
- 2019: Saki Shibata
- 2019–2020: Kasumi Ishikawa
Results from the ITTF database (selection)
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| JPN | Asian Championship | 2019 | Yogyakarta | IDN | Quarter finals | Semifinals | silver | |
| JPN | Asian Championship | 2017 | Wuxi | CHN | gold | silver | ||
| JPN | Asian Cup | 2019 | Yokohama | JPN | 6th place | |||
| JPN | Asian Cup | 2018 | Yokohama | JPN | 5th place | |||
| JPN | Asian Cup | 2017 | Ahmedabad | IND | 4th Place | |||
| JPN | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Markham | CAN | silver | |||
| JPN | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Muscat | OMN | Semifinals | |||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Budapest | HUN | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | silver | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Linz | AUT | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Stockholm | SWE | last 16 | silver | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Olomouc | CZE | silver | silver | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Panagyurishte | JPN | last 16 | silver | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Sapporo | JPN | Semifinals | |||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Hong Kong | HKG | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Olomouc | CZE | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Panagyurishte | BUL | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Shenzhen | CHN | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | gold | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Incheon | COR | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Warsaw | POLE | gold | |||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Stockholm | SWE | Semifinals | |||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Incheon City | COR | last 32 | silver | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Almeria | ESP | silver | gold | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Magdeburg | GER | last 64 | gold | ||
| JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| JPN | World Tour Grand Finals | 2019 | Zhengzhou | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| JPN | World Tour Grand Finals | 2018 | Incheon | COR | last 16 | |||
| JPN | World Tour Grand Finals | 2017 | Astana | KAZ | last 16 | |||
| JPN | World Tour Grand Finals | 2016 | Doha | QAT | Semifinals | |||
| JPN | World Tour Grand Finals | 2015 | Lisbon | POR | last 16 | silver | ||
| JPN | World Tour Grand Finals | 2014 | Bangkok | THA | gold | |||
| JPN | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | Quarter finals | |||
| JPN | World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad | SWE | silver | |||
| JPN | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf | GER | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| JPN | World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou | CHN | last 32 | last 32 | ||
| JPN | World cup | 2019 | Cheng you | CHN | last 16 | |||
| JPN | World cup | 2018 | Cheng you | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| JPN | World cup | 2017 | Markham | CAN | 4th Place | |||
| JPN | World cup | 2016 | Philadelphia | United States | gold | |||
| JPN | World Team Cup | 2019 | Tokyo | JPN | silver | |||
| JPN | Youth World Championship | 2016 | Cape Town | RSA | Quarter finals | last 32 | Quarter finals | gold |
| JPN | World Junior Circuit | 2013 | Władysławowo | POLE | Semifinals | |||
| JPN | World Junior Circuit | 2012 | Metz | FRA | Semifinals |
Web links
- Miu Hirano Article about Miu Hirano on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
- World rankings
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ ittf.com - Watching in Disbelief, Japanese Duo Beat Kuwait Record, Semi-Final Place in Qatar (accessed on October 14, 2016)
- ↑ Japan's table tennis child prodigies in the Guinness Book of Records. tt-news.de, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ ittf.com - Result of Previous Month Reversed, Miu Hirano Wins in Poland (accessed October 14, 2016)
- ↑ World Cup: Young Japanese Hirano makes history. mytischtennis.de, October 10, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Miu Hirano disappointed in Chinese Super League opener. ittf.com, October 19, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Series winners and youngsters are Japanese champions. mytischtennis.de, January 23, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Hurricane Hirano shocks Olympic and World Champion Ding Ning out of Asian Championships. ittf.com, April 17, 2017, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ^ Hurricane Hirano gale force, blows away Zhu Yuling. ittf.com, April 15, 2017, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Marvelous Miu and her Magical ways. ittf.com, April 15, 2017, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Philadelphia defeat avenged, Cheng I-Ching beats Miu Hirano to secure third place. ittf.com, October 30, 2017, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ 5 Things we learned from Day Five in Budapest. ittf.com, April 25, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Zhengzhou review: Olympic champion falls, Olympic places reserved. ittf.com, December 12, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Miu Hirano results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 14, 2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hirano, Miu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 平野 美 宇 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 2000 |