Yui Hamamoto
Yui Hamamoto 
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| Other spellings: | Hamamoto Yui |
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| Date of birth: | July 28, 1998 |
| Place of birth: | Osaka |
| Size: | 175 cm |
| Weight: | 47 kg |
| Playing hand: | right |
| How to play: | Shakehand (attack) |
| Best world ranking : | 16 (Feb. 2017) |
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Yui Hamamoto ( Japanese 浜 本 由 惟 Hamamoto Yui ; born July 28, 1998 in Osaka ) is an Austrian table tennis player of Japanese origin. With the Japanese team, she won the silver medal at the 2016 World Championships in Kuala Lumpur .
Career
Hamamoto attended a sports boarding school in Japan and was very successful for her country from an early age. She reached the final of the Japanese Youth Championships in 2012 and won silver there. She even won gold at the Junior Korea and Cadet Open. In 2015 she won the U21 Swedish Open and with these successes climbed over 30 places in the world rankings . In the same year Hamamoto was second at the World Tour Grand Finals, where she also competed in the U21 competition.
From 2015 to 2017 she played in the German Bundesliga with ttc berlin eastside .
Her last tournament for Japan was the Thailand Open in May 2018, and since the China Open in May / June 2019 she has competed internationally for Austria.
successes
- 2012 Japanese Championships - second in individual (youth)
- 2013 Korea and Cadet Open - second in singles (youth)
- 2015 Swedish Open - Winner in the U-21 competition
- 2015 World Tour Grand Finals - second in the U21 competition
- 2015 Korea Open - U21 singles winner
- 2016 Japanese Championships - Winner (Youth)
- 2016 Team World Championship - second with the team
- 2016 Pro Tour Grand Final - winner in doubles and third in singles (U21)
Others
Hamamoto is a Butterfly contract player.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | country | place | category | Result | year |
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| JPN | Japanese Championships (youth) | JPN | Tokyo | singles | silver | 2012 |
| JPN | Korea & Cadet Open (Youth) | COR | Incheon | singles | silver | 2013 |
| JPN | Swedish Open (U21) | SWE | Stockholm | singles | gold | 2015 |
| JPN | World Tour Grand Finals (U21) | RUS | Moscow | singles | gold | 2015 |
| JPN | Korea Open (U21) | COR | Incheon | singles | gold | 2015 |
Web links
- Player Profile on butterflyonline.com (Retrieved March 30, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b magazine tischtennis , 2015/9 page 24
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2017/6 page 7
- ↑ Matches. ittf.com, accessed December 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hamamoto, Yui |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 浜 本 由 惟 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1998 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka , Japan |