Yūya shima

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Yuya Oshima Table tennis player
Nation: JapanJapan Japan
Date of birth: March 5, 1994
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand (attack)
Current world rankings : 36
Best world ranking : 17 (August 2017)

Yūya Ōshima ( Japanese 大 島 祐 哉 , Ōshima Yūya ; * March 5, 1994 ) is a Japanese table tennis player . With Masataka Morizono he became vice world champion in doubles in 2017 .

Career

Ōshima's first World Tour tournament was the Polish Open 2012, where he competed in the U21 category, and in December he rose to number 203 in the world rankings . At the Korea Open 2014, he made it to the quarter-finals, jumping 65 places to 137th in July. Together with his doubles partner Masataka Morizono, he won the Czech Open and with it his first World Tour medal, in September 2014 he was in the top 100 for the first time. At the 2015 World Cup , Ōshima and Morizono made it to the quarter-finals in doubles, where they later won Winners Xu Xin and Zhang Jike lost in the decisive set. Ōshima won bronze in doubles and mixed at the Asian Championships, and his first individual medal at the Philippines Open with gold. In September 2015, he jumped from 60th to 22nd in the world rankings, and he also qualified in singles, doubles and U21s for the Grand Finals , where he won gold in doubles and U21s, and then a new one with 18th place in the world personal record reached. In 2016 he won the silver medal at the Team World Cup in Malaysia , further successes in doubles - including silver at the Grand Finals - and in singles shima's victory at the Swedish Open. At the 2017 World Cup , he and Morizono won the silver medal in doubles, and gold at the Grand Finals at the end of the year. At the 2018 World Cup , he was part of the Japanese team that started as the reigning runner-up, but surprisingly lost to England in the group stage and South Korea in the quarter-finals and was eliminated without a medal. In doubles with Morizono, Ōshima won the Austrian Open 2018 and qualified for the fourth time in a row for the Grand Finals, in which they were eliminated in the semifinals against Ho Kwan Kit / Wong Chun Ting .

Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team U-21
JPN Asian Championship 2017 Wuxi CHN last 16 Quarter finals Semifinals
JPN Asian Championship 2015 Pattaya THA last 32 Semifinals Semifinals
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 Semifinals silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Hong Kong HKG last 32 silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2018 Doha QAT last 32 silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2017 Tokyo JPN last 32 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2017 Doha QAT last 32 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2017 New Delhi IND Quarter finals gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Stockholm SWE gold Quarter finals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Cheng you CHN last 32 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Warsaw POLE last 64 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Doha QAT Agony Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2016 Berlin GER Agony gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Stockholm SWE last 32 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Olomouc CZE last 32 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Kobe JPN Agony Semifinals gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Zagreb HRV last 32 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2015 Subic Bay PHI gold silver
JPN ITTF World Tour 2014 Ekaterinburg RUS last 64 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour 2014 Olomouc CZE last 16 gold Quarter finals
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2018 Incheon COR last 16 Semifinals
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2017 Astana KAZ last 16 gold
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2016 Doha QAT last 16 silver
JPN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2015 Lisbon POR Quarter finals gold gold
JPN World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN last 32
JPN World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE Quarter finals
JPN World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER silver
JPN World Championship 2016 Kuala Lumpur MAS silver
JPN World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN Quarter finals

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
  2. Press Release: China Defends Men's Doubles Crown at ITTF World Championships. ittf.com, June 4, 2017, accessed June 10, 2017 .