Yūto Muramatsu
Yūto Muramatsu | |
Nation: | Japan |
Date of birth: | October 14, 1996 |
Playing hand: | right |
How to play: | Defender |
Current world rankings : | 106 |
Best world ranking : | 21 (January 2017) |
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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 .
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
- until 2016: Tokyo Art Table Tennis
- 2016–2018: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
- since 2018: Ryukyu Asteeda
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team | U-21 |
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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
- Yūto Muramatsu Article about Yūto Muramatsu on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
- Yuto Muramatsu's world rankings
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ a b c TTBL: Interview with Yuto Muramatsu. tt-news.de, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
- ↑ New in the TTBL: Yuto Muramatsu. ttbl.de, August 13, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Ochsenhausen signs Yuto Muramatsu. ttbl.de, April 21, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016 .
- ↑ New Japanese league "T.League" in the starting blocks. ttbl.de, September 26, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Yūto Muramatsu results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 29, 2016)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Muramatsu, Yūto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 村 松 雄 斗 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1996 |