Kaho Osawa
is a Japanese badminton player who specializes in women's doubles. She is affiliated with the San-in Godo Bank badminton team. She was a bronze medalist at the 2019 BWF World Junior Championships, 2019 World Junior Championships, earning medals in 2019 BWF World Junior Championships – Girls' doubles, girls' doubles with Hinata Suzuki and in 2019 BWF World Junior Championships – Teams event, mixed team events. Osawa has won five BWF International Challenge/Series titles, including the Réunion Open, 2024 Réunion Open and the Mexican Open (badminton), 2025 Mexican International. Partnering with Mai Tanabe, they were a runner-up at the 2025 Canada Open, a BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament. Career In 2025, Osawa and Tanabe were runners-up at the 2025 Canada Open, Canada Open, a BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament. The pair also made their Super 750 debut at the 2025 Japan Open, Japan Open, where they were eliminated in the second round by the former world No. 1 pair of Baek ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Saitama Prefecture
is a Landlocked country, landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (January 1, 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 Square kilometre, km2 (1,466 Square mile, sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture to the north, Nagano Prefecture to the west, Yamanashi Prefecture to the southwest, Tokyo to the south, Chiba Prefecture to the southeast, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the northeast. Saitama, Saitama, Saitama is the capital and largest city of Saitama Prefecture, with other major cities including Kawaguchi, Saitama, Kawaguchi, Kawagoe, Saitama, Kawagoe, and Tokorozawa, Saitama, Tokorozawa. History of Kujiki According to ''Sendai Kuji Hongi'' (), Chichibu was one of 137 provinces during the reign of Emperor Sujin. Chichibu Province was in western Saitama. The area that would become Saitama Prefecture in the 19th century is part of Musashi Provinc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hinata Suzuki
Hinata is a common Japanese given name, and a Japanese family name. Written forms and meanings The reading of ''Hinata'' can be written using many different combinations of kanji, such as: *日, "sun; day; date" *日向, "in the sun; facing the sun" *日陽, "day sun; sunny yang" *日暖, "sunny warmth and geniality; warmth of the sun" *日菜, "sunny vegetables" *日詩, "sunny poem; poetry of the sun" *日南, "sunny south; the sun's southern side; the south of the sun" *日寿, "sunny longevity" *日当, "daily allowance; per day; sunlit; exposed to the sun" *日當, "sunny undertaking; the sun serves; the sun withstands" *日方, "sunny side; sunny direction; in the direction of the sun" *日宛, "sunny address; just like the sun" *日和, "sunny harmony; sunny japan; japan's harmony" *日奈多, "many sunny what" *日奈太, "large sunny what" *日菜多, "many sunny greens" *日菜太, "large sunny vegetables" *日菜詩, "sunny vegetable poem" *日菜珠, "sunny vegetable p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kaoru Sugiyama
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with BIPROGY team since April 2022. She is a member of the Japan national badminton team (team B). Achievements BWF World Tour (2 titles, 1 runner-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 2 runners-up) ''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ... tournament ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maldives International
The Maldives International is an open international badminton tournament in Maldives organized by the Badminton Association of Maldives and sanctioned by the Badminton Asia Confederation and Badminton World Federation. This tournament has been an International Challenge level before it went into hiatus in 2014. This tournament held at the Malé sports complex, and offered world ranking points with total prize money US$15,000. In 2010, India won two titles from the men's and women's singles event. Anand Pawar won the men's singles title after defeated Dinuka Karunaratne of Sri Lanka with the score 21–14, 21–18, while his compatriot Trupti Murgunde won the women's singles title after Ann Venice Alcala Malvinne of Philippines retired with a hamstring injury at the score 21–10, 11–3. The men's doubles title goes to Pakistani Kashif Ali Sulehri and Rizwan Azam, and the Japanese pair Chinami Okui and Yukie Sumida won the women's doubles title. Kennevic Asuncion and Karyn Vele ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miyu Takahashi
is a Japanese badminton player from Inami, Hyōgo Prefecture, who specializes in women's doubles. She is a current member of the Japanese national team and has represented the BIPROGY badminton team since 1 April 2021. Partnering with Mizuki Otake, Takahashi won her first World Tour title at the Vietnam Open (Super 100) and later secured the German Open (Super 300) title. The pair achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 24 on 3 June 2025. Career Junior career Takahashi began playing in elementary school. In her third year at Aomori Yamada High School, she placed third in the singles and won doubles competition at the Singapore Youth International. She was part of Japan's Bronze Medal winning team at the 2018 BWF World Junior Championships. In 2019, she won the All Japan Junior Badminton Championship as a singles player. She began partnering with Mizuki Otake in fall 2018 and the pair were described as top talents in their generation. They won the National High Sc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chisato Hoshi
is a retired Japanese badminton player who was affiliated with the BIPROGY (formerly Unisys) team. A women's doubles specialist, Hoshi won two BWF World Tour titles. Her first World Tour title was the 2018 Russian Open Super 100, with partner Kie Nakanishi. Her biggest career victory came in 2021 when she partnered with Aoi Matsuda to win the Super 500 title at the Hylo Open. Hoshi also reached the final of the 2017 Canada Open, a BWF Grand Prix tournament, and secured eight titles on the BWF International Challenge/Series circuit. She officially retired from the sport on 31 March 2023. Career Junior career Hoshi represented Japan in junior team competitions, securing a mixed team silver medal at the 2012 BWF World Junior Championships in Chiba. She also earned mixed team bronze medals at the Asian Junior Championships in Gimcheon in 2012 and Kota Kinabalu in 2013. Senior career Hoshi competed in women's singles and women's doubles on the BWF circuit. In her early s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miho Kayama
is a feminine Japanese given name. It can have many different meanings in Japanese depending on the kanji used. Possible Japanese writings Miho can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *実穂, "truth, ear of grain" *美穂, "beauty, ear of grain" *美保, "beauty, care" *未歩, "future (part of the word 未来), step" *美帆, "beauty, sail" *美歩, "beauty, walk" The name can also be written in hiragana "みほ" or katakana "ミホ". People with the name * , Japanese sprint canoeist * , Japanese voice actress * Miho Dukov (, born 1955), former Bulgarian wrestler * , Japanese actress * , Japanese singer * , Japanese football player * , Japanese table tennis player * , Japanese singer and songwriter * , Japanese composer and jazz musician * Miho Iwata (born 1962), Japanese performance artist, scenographer and choreographer * , former Japanese football player * , Japanese actress and J-pop singer * , Japanese J-pop singer * , Japanese former synchronized s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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India International Challenge
The India International Challenge is an international badminton tournament, which is held annually in India. During its first two editions, it was a domestic tournament. Since 2010, it became an international tournament with the grading of International Challenge. Previous winners Performance by nation See also *India Open *Syed Modi International Badminton Championships * Hyderabad Open *Odisha Open The Odisha Masters, formerly known as the Odisha Open, is an annual badminton tournament held in India. It is part of the BWF World Tour tournaments and is leveled in BWF Tour Super 100. The inaugural edition took place in 2022 Odisha Open, 2022 ... References {{Badminton competitions Annual sporting events in India Badminton tournaments in India Recurring sporting events established in 2008 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nuntakarn Aimsaard
Nuntakarn Aimsaard (; born 23 May 1999) is a Thai badminton player. Aimsaard entered the international badminton circuit in 2015. She was part of the Thailand team that won the mixed team bronze medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade. She won her first BWF world tour title at the 2022 India Open in the women's doubles event partnered with her sister Benyapa Aimsaard. Achievements SEA Games ''Women's doubles'' BWF World Tour (5 titles, 4 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member ... (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Benyapa Aimsaard
Benyapa Aimsaard (; born 29 August 2002) is a Thai badminton player. Career Aimsaard educated at the Demonstration School of Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University. She entered the international circuit in 2015, at a very young age of 13. At the Asian U–15 Junior Championships, she finished as mixed doubles runner-up with Setthanan Piyawatcharavijit. At the age of 15, she was able to compete in the senior international tournament, by becoming a finalist in the 2017 Lao International Series. Aimsaard later won the 2018 Asian U–17 Junior Championships in the girls' singles and doubles events. In 2019, she won the Mongolia Junior International in the girls' singles event, India Junior International both in singles and mixed doubles. Aimsaard was part of Thai team that won the first ever mixed team title at the Asian Junior Championships. She also won bronze medal at the Asian Junior Championships in the girls' singles and World Junior Championships in the mixed doubles event ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Canada Open
The Canada Open () in badminton is an international open held in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ... since 1957. In recent years the tournament has been held annually in September. In 1957 the Canadian Badminton Federation decided to open the Canadian National Championships and they were combined with the Canadian Open until 1961. In 1962 they were divided and held as separate tournaments. 2008 and 2009 the championships were held as Canadian International. From 2023 onwards, this will be a Super 500 tournament. On 19 March 2025, the tournament was demoted to a Super 300 level for 2025 and 2026 seasons. Previous winners Canada National Championships and Canada Open together Canadian Open Performances by nation Note References External linksBWF: ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Badminton World Federation
The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations: Canada, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. In 1981, the IBF merged with the World Badminton Federation, and on 24 September 2006, at the Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid, the name of the organization was changed to Badminton World Federation. When the BWF was founded, its head office was located in Cheltenham, UK. It was then relocated to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 1, 2005. Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul of Thailand is the current president. The BWF has 202 member associations around the world, organized into 5 continental confederations. Continental federations The BWF works in co-operation with regional governing bodies to promote and develop the sport of badminton ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |