| Yukiko Takahata | |||||||||||||||
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_(cropped).jpg) Takahata in Taipei, Taiwan in October 2018 | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 March 1998 Hokkaido, Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||
| Women's doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 9 (with Ayako Sakuramoto 5 February 2019) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yukiko Takahata (高畑 祐紀子, Takahata Yukiko, born 18 March 1998) is a Japanese badminton player from the Yonex team.[1][2] In 2017, she became the women's doubles runner-up at the Osaka International tournament partnered with Ayako Sakuramoto.[3] She won her first senior international title at the Spanish International tournament with Sakuramoto.[4]
Takahata started to represent the national team in the 2015 World Junior Championships held in Lima, Peru, and helped the team reach the semifinals. At the BWF Grand Prix events, her best result was a runner-up at the 2017 New Zealand Open.
Teamed-up with Sakuramoto, Takahata won seven of eight finals of the 2018 BWF World Tour, with a title of Super 500 tournament from Singapore Open, three titles of Super 300 tournament from Swiss, New Zealand, and Australia Open; and three titles of Super 100 tournament. She participated at the 2019 Asia Mixed Team Championships, and won the silver medal after the team lost to the Chinese in the final.
- ^ "Players: Yukiko Takahata". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ "ヨネックス バドミントンチーム 選手紹介" (in Japanese). Yonex. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ "ヨネックス大阪インターナショナルチャレンジ2017" (in Japanese). Yonex. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ "バドミントンスペインインターナショナル2017" (in Japanese). Nippon Badminton Association. Retrieved 20 June 2017.