Miyuu Kihara

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Miyuu Kihara ( Japanese 木 原 美 悠 Kihara Miyū ; born August 3, 2004 in Akashi , Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese table tennis player . She is considered one of the most promising young talents in her country, as she qualified for the World Tour Grand Finals at the age of 14 and won the title in the women's doubles.

Miyuu Kihara Table tennis player
Nation: JapanJapan Japan
Date of birth: August 3, 2004
Place of birth: Akashi
Size: 155 cm
Weight: 49 kg
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings : 51 Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 51 (January 2020)

She is currently one of the top 100 table tennis players in the world in the ITTF world rankings . She is right-handed and uses the European shakehand style as a handle . The Japanese plays at the Japanese club Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa .

Career

The Japanese made her first international appearances in 2016 when she took part in the World Cadet Challenge. She also won silver in the women's singles at the Hong Kong Junior & Cadet Open .

She had other appearances on the World Tour in 2017, including at the Japan, Croatia and China Open. At the youth world championship she was able to win silver with the team, she was defeated in her singles Wang Manyu .

2019 was by far her most successful year: She qualified for the World Tour Grand Finals and won the doubles competition there together with Miyu Nagasaki . She also won two titles at the Croatia Open, when she was just 14 years and 278 days old, making her the youngest World Tour winner since 1996.

Overview of titles and successes

singles

  • 2nd place at the Asian & Junior Cadet World Championships (2017), 3rd place (2018)

Double

  • Winner of the World Tour Grand Finals (2019)
  • Winner of the Youth World Championships (2019), 2nd place (2018), 3rd place (2017)
  • Winner of the Asian Junior & Cadet Championships (2019), 3rd place (2017)

Mixed

  • Winner of the Youth World Championships (2019)
  • 3rd place at the Asian Junior & Cadet Championships (2019)

team

  • 2nd place at the Youth World Championships (2018, 2019)
  • 2nd place at the Asian Junior & Cadet Championships (2016, 2017), 3rd place (2018, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 木 原 美 悠 - 木 下 ア ビ エ ル 神奈川 - 卓 球 Ｔ リ ー グ （T.LEAGUE）. Retrieved January 23, 2020 (Japanese).
  2. ^ ITTF - World Ranking. Retrieved January 23, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Teen duo Miyu Kihara, Miyu Nagasaki capture table tennis Grand Finals title . In: The Japan Times Online . December 15, 2019, ISSN  0447-5763 (English, japantimes.co.jp [accessed January 23, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Zagreb highlights: Miyuu Kihara, youngest ever. May 18, 2019, accessed January 23, 2020 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Kihara, Miyuu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 木 原 美 悠 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 2004
PLACE OF BIRTH Akashi , Hyogo Prefecture