Minatsu Mitani ( 三谷美菜津 )

[Wingu]

From personal experience, knees gets a battering during long training sessions. My knees will be super sore after training. Any tough games following that and the knees get very painful and inflamed.

We are seeing too many injuries to the ladies recently. Maybe they are pushing themselves too hard.

I think it is pretty common with injuries among professional athletes. Of course you can strengthen muscles among other parts in order to prepare your body better against the stress, but the chances of avoiding injuries completely would seem impossible to me, even for amateur players.

But like Gillian Clark frequently brings up during games, women's singels have become a lot more like men's singels and I have to agree with that. Women's singels are a lot more interesting to me now than before, thanks to the speed of the game has gone up. Not that it was boring, but it just wasn't as appealing as men's. And in order to increase the speed of the game they would have to also up their exercise, which would mean more stress put on their bodies.

But I agree though, we never want to see athletes get injured. I hope Mitani will recover soon.

[rogerv2]

I think it is pretty common with injuries among professional athletes. Of course you can strengthen muscles among other parts in order to prepare your body better against the stress, but the chances of avoiding injuries completely would seem impossible to me, even for amateur players.

But like Gillian Clark frequently brings up during games, women's singels have become a lot more like men's singels and I have to agree with that. Women's singels are a lot more interesting to me now than before, thanks to the speed of the game has gone up. Not that it was boring, but it just wasn't as appealing as men's. And in order to increase the speed of the game they would have to also up their exercise, which would mean more stress put on their bodies.

But I agree though, we never want to see athletes get injured. I hope Mitani will recover soon.

Injury is just part of the problem. Even after recovery, the thought of re-injuring will be another mental block for some time. Very hard to shake off this feeling.

[limsy]

world number 13!
her current career high!
hehe

[chris-ccc]

world number 13!
her current career high!
hehe

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Let's hope that Minatsu Mitani can make it into the Top 10 during 2013.

For the World Ranking of other WS players, here is the link:
http://bwfbadminton.org/page.aspx?id=14955
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[chicharito]

hi im new here.
do you guys know whether minatsu will be here in malaysia this week or not?

[Blurry D]

hi im new here.
do you guys know whether minatsu will be here in malaysia this week or not?

Please see the draw the next time.. The answers is yes she is.

[SolsticeOfLight]

She looked exhausted in her semi-final at the Korea Open ... I hope she'll be recovered next week.

[chicharito]

thanks.sorry for asking this question.i searched and found the list of players myself.not hard thanks to mr.google. im rooting for you minatsu!!

[chris-ccc]

Please see the draw the next time.. The answers is yes she is.

thanks.sorry for asking this question.i searched and found the list of players myself.not hard thanks to mr.google. im rooting for you minatsu!!

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What links Blurry D was referring to, are these links;

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sp...FA51CFD051F5#M

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sp...FD051F5&draw=2

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sp...1F5&player=237

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/pr...D-38E23B4CED8A
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[Pakito]

Hey guys, did anyone of you watch the match between Minatsu and Belaetrix? What happened? From the scoreline it looks like a one sided affair. Injured?

[chris-ccc]

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Minatsu Mitani is participating in the 2013 India Open SS tournament playing this week.

Let's follow her.

Schedule and results can be found in this link :
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sp...6793E7E&draw=4

BTW, keep an eye on Yui Hashimoto too; who is also playing there (in her first SS tournament).
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