(formerly Etsuko Takenaka) is a retired Japanese

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player noted for her consistency and impassive demeanor, who won numerous international titles during the 1970s. Along with her contemporaries Hiroe Yuki (Niinuma) and Noriko Takagi (Nakayama), she is one of three Japanese women to have won both singles (1970) and doubles (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977) at the prestigious All-England Championships. These three helped Japan to dominate the

Uber Cup The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Women's Team Championships, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956–1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contes ...

(women's world team) competition from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. In

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Mrs. Toganoo won the women's doubles with Emiko Ueno at the first IBF World Championships.Davis, 109.

Achievements

World Championships

''Women's doubles''

Asian Games

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

Asian Championships

''Mixed doubles ''

International tournament (10 titles, 3 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles''

Invitational tournament

''Women's doubles''

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Japanese female badminton players Badminton players at the 1970 Asian Games Badminton players at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games badminton players for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists in badminton Asian Games bronze medalists in badminton {{Japan-badminton-bio-stub