Yūto Muramatsu

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Yūto Muramatsu Table tennis player
Nation: JapanJapan Japan
Date of birth: October 14, 1996
Playing hand: right
How to play: Defender
Current world rankings : 106
Best world ranking : 21 (January 2017)

Yūto Muramatsu ( Japanese 村 松 雄 斗 , Muramatsu Yūto ; born October 14, 1996 in Aomori Prefecture ) is a Japanese table tennis player .

Career

Muramatsu began playing table tennis at the age of six, on the recommendation of his family as a defensive player. He is right-handed and uses the shakehand racket pose. In January 2010 he was listed for the first time at 561 in the world rankings , improved in the two years after that by 200 places and in October 2012, when he was under 16 years of age, he made it into the top 100 in the world rankings. In November he secured the U-21 title at the Polish Open with a final victory over Patrick Franziska .

WRL positions of the best 4 table tennis defenders

From 2011 to 2014 he took part in four youth world championships, winning four silver medals with the team, one bronze medal in doubles with Asuka Sakai and 2014 silver in singles. In 2014 he also won silver both individually and in a team with Miyu Katō at the Youth Olympic Games . He also played successfully on the World Tour this year - including reaching the semi-finals at the Japan Open - so that he could qualify for the Grand Finals , where he was eliminated in the first game against Dimitrij Ovtcharov . He was also part of the Japanese team that won bronze at the 2014 Asian Games .

In his first World Cup participation in 2015 he was among the last 64. At this point in time he was 23rd in the world rankings, a personal record, and 3rd in the U-21 world rankings. He was also in April In 2015 he was the third best defender in the world, but at 18 years of age he was significantly younger than the South Korean Joo Se-hyuk , who he called his favorite player, and the Greek Panagiotis Gionis , each 35 years old.

At the German Open and Czech Open 2016 he won gold in the U-21 competition, at the Czech Open he also won gold in the men's singles. At the end of the year he reached the quarter-finals at the Grand Finals by defeating Vladimir Samsonov and won silver in the U21 competition. For the 2016/17 season he moved to the Bundesliga to TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen , for which he also played in the Champions League . During this time he trained at the Liebherr Masters College . In January 2017 he reached his best position with world number 21, at the world championship he was among the last 32. After the Czech Open in August, however, he did not participate in any international tournaments, from 2018 he played in the Japanese T.League.

societies

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team U-21
JPN Asian Championship 2015 Pattaya THA last 32
JPN Asian Games 2014 Incheon COR Semifinals
JPN Asian Cup 2013 Hong Kong HKG 11-15 space
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2016 Linz AUT Semifinals
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2016 Cheng you CHN last 16 silver
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2016 Olomouc CZE gold gold
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2016 Tokyo JPN last 32 Semifinals
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2016 Berlin GER last 32 gold
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2014 Yokohama JPN Semifinals last 16
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2014 Zagreb CRO Semifinals
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2014 Almeria ESP Semifinals
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2012 Olomouc CZE Semifinals
JPN ITTF Pro Tour 2012 Kobe JPN last 32 Semifinals
JPN Pro Tour Grand Finals 2016 Doha QAT Quarter finals silver
JPN Pro Tour Grand Finals 2014 Bangkok THA last 16
JPN World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER last 32
JPN World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN last 64
JPN Youth World Championship 2014 Shanghai CHN silver silver
JPN Youth World Championship 2013 Rabat MAR Quarter finals last 32 silver
JPN Youth World Championship 2012 Hyderabad IND Quarter finals Semifinals silver
JPN Youth World Championship 2011 Manama BRN last 16 silver
JPN Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing JPN silver silver
JPN World Junior Circuit 2013 Szombathely HUN gold
JPN World Junior Circuit 2012 Örebro SWE Semifinals
JPN World Junior Circuit 2011 Dinklage GER silver
JPN World Junior Circuit 2011 Hong Kong HKG silver
JPN World Junior Circuit 2011 Platja d'Aro ESP gold
JPN World Junior Circuit 2011 Örebro SWE Semifinals

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c TTBL: Interview with Yuto Muramatsu. tt-news.de, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ New in the TTBL: Yuto Muramatsu. ttbl.de, August 13, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ World ranking Record for MURAMATSU Yuto. (No longer available online.) Ittf.com, archived from the original on November 1, 2016 ; accessed on October 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Ochsenhausen signs Yuto Muramatsu. ttbl.de, April 21, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ New Japanese league "T.League" in the starting blocks. ttbl.de, September 26, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Yūto Muramatsu results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 29, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Muramatsu, Yūto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 村 松 雄 斗 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1996