Vitor Ishiy (born 22 September 1995) is a Brazilian

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player. He competed in the

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and

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for

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. He is currently sponsored by JOOLA.

Career

2016–20

At the

2016 Latin American Table Tennis Championships The 2016 Latin American Table Tennis Championships were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from February 1 to February 7, 2016. Medal summary Events Medal table Results Men's singles Finals Top Draw Bottom Draw Women's singles Finals Top ...

, Ishiy won two gold medals in mixed doubles and team, and two bronzes in singles under-21 and doubles. At the

2017 World Table Tennis Championships The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 29 May to 5 June 2017. The decision to host the event in Düsseldorf was announced by the ITTF in April 2015. They were the 54th edition of the competition, and the ...

, participating in the mixed doubles together with Kumahara, Ishiy won the 1st round, but were eliminated in the 2nd round. At the 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Ishiy won three gold medals in doubles, mixed doubles and team. At the

2018 South American Games The 2018 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was the 11th edition of the ODESUR South American Games. A total of 373 sporting events are scheduled to be contested across a variety of sports. ...

, he won three gold medals in singles, mixed doubles and men's team, and a bronze medal in men's doubles. At the 2018 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Ishiy won two gold medals in doubles and team. Ishiy's biggest individual title was gold at the 2019 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, held in Asunción, Paraguay. At 23 years old, and being 121st in the world rankings, he was not among the big favorites and overcame several traditional opponents from South America. Ishiy beat home player Marcelo Aguirre (54th in the world) in the round of 16, and Colombian Alberto Mino (75th in the world) in the quarterfinals. In the semi-final, he faced his compatriot

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, 28th in the world, where Ishiy ended up losing by two sets to zero, tied the match, lost the fifth set and again managed to draw. The decisive set was very disputed and decided in the end, in favor of Ishiy: 4 to 3 on the scoreboard (6/11, 10/12, 11/6, 11/7, 10/12, 11/3 and 11/9). Just over 70 minutes after the end of the semi-final, he faced Argentine

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, another experienced athlete from the World Tour, defeating him by 4 sets to 1, with splits of (9–11, 11–3, 14–12, 11–4 and 11–7) to win the gold medal. In this competition, he also won a gold together with the Brazilian team. At the

2019 World Table Tennis Championships The 2019 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 21 to 28 April 2019. It was the 55th edition of the championships, and the fourth time that they were held in Budapest. Schedule Five events were contested, with qualif ...

, Ishiy participated in the singles draw, being eliminated in the 1st round. In the men's doubles, Thiago Monteiro and Ishiy won the 1st round and played an even match in the 2nd round, but lost the crucial points and the game to the pair Yun-Ju Lin and Tai-Wei Wang, from China Taipei, by 4 sets to 1 (11/5, 9/11, 9/11, 8/11 and 9/11).

2020 Olympic Games

Ishiy was at the

2020 Olympic Games The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

in Tokyo, where he participated in the Brazilian team made up of himself,

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and

. In the round of 16, they beat Serbia 3–2, but in the quarter-finals they were eliminated by South Korea 3–0. 8th position was the best in the country's history, in this modality.

2021–24

At the

2021 Pan American Table Tennis Championships The 2021 Pan American Table Tennis Championships were held in Lima, Peru from 13 to 19 November 2021. Medal summary Events Medal table References {{reflist Pan American Table Tennis Championships Pan American Table Tennis Championships Pa ...

, Ishiy, 63rd in the world, reached the semifinals where he faced the best table tennis player in the Americas of all time,

, number 5 in the world at the moment, and ended up being eliminated by 4 sets to 0, however, ending with the individual bronze medal. In the same competition, he won gold in mixed doubles, on the Brazilian team, and a bronze in doubles. At the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, Ishiy participated in the singles draw, being eliminated in the 2nd round by

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, who reached the quarter-finals of the competition. He also participated in the men's doubles and mixed doubles, being eliminated in the 1st round of both. At the

2022 Pan American Table Tennis Championships The 2022 Pan American Table Tennis Championships were held in Santiago, Chile, from 31 October to 6 November 2022. Medal summary Events Medal table References {{reflist Pan American Table Tennis Championships Pan American Table Tennis C ...

, Ishiy won two gold medals in mixed doubles and team, and a bronze in doubles. At the

2023 World Table Tennis Championships The 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was the 57th edition of World Table Tennis Championships and held in Durban, South Africa. It was the first such event set to be held in Africa since 1939 Championship held in Egypt. Bid South Africa w ...

, Ishiy and Takahashi participated as No.11 seeds in the mixed doubles competition, where they were eliminated in the 2nd round by the Singaporean pair. Ishiy also participated in the men's doubles together with Eric Jouti, also being eliminated in the 2nd round. At the

2023 Pan American Table Tennis Championships The 2023 Pan American Table Tennis Championships is a table tennis tournament held in Havana, Cuba, from 10 to 17 September 2023. Medalists Medal table References {{reflist Pan American Table Tennis Championships Pan American Table Tennis Ch ...

in Havana, the Brazilian team made up of Ishiy, Hugo Calderano, Eric Jouti and Guilherme Teodoro won gold. With this, Ishiy, Hugo Calderano and Eric Jouti won the place to defend the Brazilian team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In this competition, Ishiy also obtained a silver in the mixed doubles together with Bruna Takahashi. In singles, Ishiy beat Puerto Rican Oscar Birriel 4 sets to 3 in the first round, but later lost to Chilean Nicolas Burgos, 4 sets to 2. At the

2023 Pan American Games The 2023 Pan American Games (), officially the XIX Pan American Games () and commonly known as Santiago 2023, were an international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, held in Santiago, Chile from 20 October to 5 Novem ...

in Santiago, Ishiy won gold for the Brazilian team, and silver in

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. With this, he obtained a place for the

in table tennis mixed doubles. Ishiy and Takahashi were ranked 11th in the mixed doubles world rankings at this time. He also won silver in doubles. In

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, Ishiy reached the second round, but was eliminated by Chilean Nicolás Burgos, second-ranked player in the Americas, number 54 in the world at the moment. In 2024, Ishiy formed a permanent duo with Guilherme Teodoro. They reached the round of 16 of the Singapore Smash and the Saudi Smash. At the WTT Contender in Rio de Janeiro, they reached the semifinals together, obtaining the bronze medal. At the WTT Contender in Mendoza, Argentina, they reached the final, obtaining the silver medal, and reaching the position of 16th best pair in the world.

2024 Olympic Games

At the

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, he and

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were eliminated in the mixed doubles opener by 4 sets to 2. In the singles bracket, he won his first match in the Olympics, defeating Australian world number 38 Nicholas Lum by 4 sets to 0. In the second round, he faced

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, two-time Olympic bronze medalist, where he still won a set against the German, but ended up being eliminated by 4 sets to 1. He also participated in the team competition, where Brazil equaled its best ever placing in the Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals.Brasil é eliminado pela França nas quartas do torneio de equipes do tênis de mesa
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2024-2028

At the

2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championships The 2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championships is a table tennis tournament currently being held in San Salvador, El Salvador, from 13 to 20 October 2024. Medalists Medal table References {{reflist Pan American Table Tennis Championships ...

, Ishiy was runner-up, losing only to

in the final. After winning silver at this competition, Ishiy reached world number 46 in the ITTF rankings in January 2025, the best ranking he achieved in his career.

Best results by type of tournament

Singles

Ishiy's best ranking was no.45 in the world in 2025. *

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: Champion (

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

) *

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: Round of 16 (

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) *WTT Contender: Round of 16 (Tunis 2021, Rio 2023, Mendoza 2024) *WTT Star Contender: First round (Doha 2022, Bangkok 2023) *

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: Second round (

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

) *Olympic Games: Second round ( Paris 2024)

Doubles

Ishiy and Guilherme Teodoro reached the position of 12th best duo in the world in January 2025. *

: Champion (

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) *

: Runner-up (

) *WTT Contender: Runner-up (Mendoza 2024) *WTT Star Contender: Round of 16 (Doha 2024) *Smash: Round of 16 (Singapore 2024, Saudi 2024) *

: Second round (

)

Mixed doubles

Ishiy usually plays mixed doubles with

, and both have already reached number 11 in the world in this modality in 2023. *

: Champion (

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) *

: Runner-up (

) *WTT Contender: Bronze medal (Tunis 2022) *WTT Star Contender: Quarterfinals (Doha 2021) *Grand Smash: Round of 16 (Singapore 2024) *

: Second round ( Düsseldorf 2017, Durban 2023) *

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: Round of 16 (Paris 2024)

Team

From April 2021 to June 2023, the Brazil team was the 6th best in the world. *

: Champion (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) *

: Champion (2023) *

Table Tennis World Cup The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had only been men's singles until the start of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The competitions are sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation. ...

: Quarterfinals ( Tokyo 2019) *

: Round of 16 ( Chengdu 2022) *

: Quarterfinals (

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, Paris 2024)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ishiy, Vitor 1995 births Living people Brazilian male table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Brazil Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen Table tennis players at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists in table tennis Pan American Games silver medalists in table tennis Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics