is a

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 from Japan. She competed in

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in women's doubles with partner

Seiko Yamada is a Japanese badminton player. Together with Shizuka Yamamoto, she won the women's doubles national champion in 2000 and 2003. Yamada competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Shizuka Yamamoto. They we ...

. They were defeated by

Chin Eei Hui Chin Eei Hui (; Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chhìn Ngì-fui; born 18 June 1982) is a former badminton player from Malaysia who plays in both women's and mixed doubles. She worked as a coach for Malaysia's national women's doubles players until her c ...

and

Wong Pei Tty Wong Pei Tty (, born 11 November 1981) is a Malaysian former doubles badminton player. Wong is currently the Head Coach of the Badminton Academy in Singapore Sport School. Her previous stint included being coach for Malaysia women's doubles n ...

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in the round of 32. Yamamoto also competed in mixed doubles with partner

Tadashi Ohtsuka Tadashi (Kanji: 正, 禎, 忠, 荘, 匡史, 理 Hiragana: ただし), Japanese masculine name, may refer to : *, the first aikido master to live and teach in the west *, Japanese manga story writer, novelist and screenwriter *, Japanese basketball ...

. They were defeated in the round of 32 by Robert Blair and Natalie Munt of

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