Oh yes, and Minatsu managed to get into the reserves list for the German Open . It's such a big advantage to be in the national team, getting to play in all the big tournaments. But I think she needs to play in the smaller ones to push up her rankings. I'm sure she'll be doing very well this year. BWF has got her family name mixed up. It's Mitani .
German Open, All England & Swiss Open participants Here is the list of players from the Japan team. The German Open list is same as the All England list. Tago Kenichi Sasaki Sho Yamada Kazushi Ueda Takuma Sonoda Keigo Sakai Masayuki Hirata Noriyasu Hashimoto Hirokatsu Hayakawa Kenichi Endo Hiroyuki Sato Shoki Kawamae Naoki Hirobe Yoshiteru Kazuno Kenta Hirose Eriko Goto Ai Sato Sayaka Kurihara Ayane Imabeppu Kaori Mitani Minatsu Maeda Miyuki Suetsuna Satoko Matsutomo Misaki Takahashi Ayaka Matsuo Shizuka Naito Mami Fujii Mizuki Kakiiwa Reika Shiota Reiko Ikeda Shintaro Not full squad will be going to Swiss Open, only certain players will be going to Swiss Open: MS Yamada Kazushi Sasaki Sho Sonoda Keigo WS Hirose Eriko Goto Ai Mitani Minatsu Sato Sayaka Imabeppu Kaori Sekiya Mayu WD Naito Mami/Matsuo Shizuka Matsutomo Misaki/Takahashi Ayaka Wakita Yu/Eto Rie MD Sato Shoji/Kawamae Naoki Hayakawa Kenichi/Endo Hiroyuki Kazuno Kenta/Yoshiteru Hirobe XD Ikeda Shintaro/Shiota Reiko Hayakawa Kenichi/Matsutomo Misaki Sato Shoji/Matsuo Shizuka Kazuno Kenta/Takahashi Ayaka
Japanese national team 2011 list: Eriko Hirose Osaka Sanyo Kaori Imabeppu Osaka Sanyo Sayaka Sato Kanagawa Student Ai Goto Tokyo NTT East Ayane Kurihara Tokyo Nihon Unisys Minatsu Mitani Tokyo NTT East Satoko Suetsuna Kumamoto Renesas Semiconductor Miyuki Maeda Kumamoto Renesas Semiconductor Shizuka Matsuo Osaka Sanyo Mami Naito Osaka Sanyo Mizuki Fujii Kumamoto Renesas Semiconductor Reika Kakiiwa Kumamoto Renesas Semiconductor Ayaka Takahashi Tokyo Nihon Unisys Misaki Matsutomo Tokyo Nihon Unisys Reiko Shiota Tokyo Nihon Unisys I'm still working on the males. Maybe suetyan, you can do the honours .
they are in blue because they are not playing in the German Open and also the All England, they will join the team only in Swiss Open.
Yes, I suspected that they may be adding to the list. I can't read Japanese. But the list looks quite full already. I notice that Yu Hirayama isn't in the list anymore .
Austrian International Challenge 2011 Date: 23 Feb to 26 Feb 2011 Hayasaki Shuhei Hiroyuki Saeki Taohata Ryota Zeniya Sho Kamura Takeshi Saeki Koichi Wada Shu Sato Rei Watanabe Tatsuya Hoshino Shohei Kobayashi Akiya Takeuchi Hiroki Okoshi Izumi Momota Kento Sekiya Mayu Fukuman Naoko Koharu Yonemoto Miki Yuriko Taruno Megumi Uchida Shizuka Nojirino Masayo Oka Hitomi Takahashi Sayaka Okuhara Nozumi Ichimaru Miri Tanaka Shiho Yonao Kurumi
Japan team 2011 phil-mm, I got the 2011 name list already. A team Men's team Tago Kenichi Sasaki Sho Yamada Kazushi Ueda Takuma Sonoda Keigo Sakai Masayuki Hirata Noriyasu Hashimoto Hirokatsu Hayakawa Kenichi Endo Hiroyuki Sato Shoki Kawamae Naoki Hirobe Yoshiteru Kazuno Kenta Ikeda Shintaro Women's team Hirose Eriko Imabeppu Kaori Sato Sayaka Goto Ai Kurihara Ayane Mitani Minatsu Maeda Miyuki Suetsuna Satoko Matsutomo Misaki Takahashi Ayaka Matsuo Shizuka Naito Mami Fujii Mizuki Kakiiwa Reika Shiota Reiko B team Men's team Hayasaki Shuhei Saeki Hiroyuki Taohata Ryota Zeniya Sho Kamura Takeshi Saeki Koichi Wada Shu Sato Rei Watanabe Tatsuya Hoshino Shohei Kobayashi Akiya Takeuchi Hiroki Okoshi Izumi Momota Kento Women's team Sekiya Mayu Fukuman Naoko Koharu Yonemoto Miki Yuriko Taruno Megumi Uchida Shizuka Nojirino Masayo Oka Hitomi Itagaki Yuki Tamura Chiaki Takahashi Sayaka Okuhara Nozumi Ichimaru Miri Tanaka Shiho Yonao Kurumi Here is the source: http://www.badminton.or.jp/national/20101222national.htm
You're right. Need to go check again. I could have sworn I had seen Naoko Fukuman's name in the list earlier.
Oh, cool. They have a B team too. Good thing Nozumi managed to make it. Next year she will be in the A team, ha ha.
There is quite a good balance between the different companies in the women's A team. 4 from Nihon Unisys, 4 from Sanyo, 4 from Renesas Electronics and 2 from NTT East. And one student . Sayaka is still so young. But very good .
I mean Nozomi. Nozomi Okuhara. Sayaka Takahashi. Two players from the B team to look out for in the future.
I think the result of Austrian Open tells you why Taruno is still in the B team. She lost to Egelstaff Susan in the first round, 14-21, 17-21