No. 1 Kento Momota defends Fuzhou crown for 10th title of 2019
Kento Momota won the 10th title of his remarkable year as the world No. 1 defeated Chou Tien-chen to retain his Fuzhou China Open crown on Sunday. China's Chen Yufei successfully defended the women's title with a gritty victory over Nozomi Okuhara. Reigning two-time world ...
Kento Momota, Wakana Nagahara and Mayu Matsumoto become Japan's first repeat world badminton champs
Kento Momota, Wakana Nagahara and Mayu Matsumoto became the first Japanese to repeat as badminton world champions on Sunday. On the final day of the world championships, Nagahara and Matsumoto made history by defending the women's doubles title they won last year in China. The ...
No. 1 Yamaguchi upset by No. 32 Yeo during world championships
World No. 1 Akane Yamaguchi suffered an upset defeat to 32nd-ranked Yeo Jia-min of Singapore 2-0 in the second round of the women's singles at the badminton world championships on Tuesday. Playing in her opening match, Yamaguchi, who is recovering from a lower back injury, ...
Kento Momota and Akane Yamaguchi capture titles at badminton's Japan Open
World champion and world No. 1 Kento Momota defended his men's singles title with a straight-sets win, while Akane Yamaguchi beat Nozomi Okuhara in an all-Japanese women's singles final at the Japan Open on Sunday. Playing in front of a cheering home crowd, Momota won ...
Lee Chong Wei's retirement ends legendary rivalry with Lin Dan
Lee Chong Wei's tearful retirement was not just a sad conclusion to one of badminton's great careers, it also ended his remarkable rivalry with China's Lin Dan. The duo reigned over the sport for more than a decade and have only relinquished that hold in ...
Shi Yuqi stunned world champion Kento Momota as hosts China whitewashed Japan for an 11th Sudirman Cup title on Sunday. Japan has never won the badminton world mixed-team championship and its search will go on after it was well-beaten 3-0 in the Chinese city of ...
Nozomi Okuhara rescues Japan from early exit at mixed-team world championships
Japan gambled by resting top-ranked Kento Momota and nearly paid the price, suffering a huge scare before battling back to beat Russia 3-2 in their Sudirman Cup opener on Monday. The top seeds are bidding to win the mixed-team world championships for the first time, ...
Japan's world No. 1 Kento Momota roared back from a game down to defeat Shi Yuqi of China and retain his Badminton Asia Championships title on Sunday. On a red-letter day for Japan in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Akane Yamaguchi became the first Japanese ...
Kento Momota withstood a barrage of smashes from Anthony Sinisuka Ginting to rally for a thrilling 10-21, 21-19, 21-13 victory Sunday in the Singapore Open final. The world champion struggled to contain his powerful Indonesian opponent, who was finding both corners of the court in ...
World No. 1 Kento Momota on Sunday became the first Japanese man to win the All England Open badminton championships when he beat Denmark's Viktor Axelsen 2-1 in the men's singles final. Momota, the reigning world champion and Asian champion, was stretched to three games ...
No. 1 Kento Momota to face Viktor Axelsen in All England Open final
World No. 1 Kento Momota set up an All England Open final showdown with Viktor Axelsen after beating Hong Kong's Ng Ka Long Angus in the semifinals on Saturday. Momota was in dominant form as the reigning world champion cruised to a 21-19, 21-11 victory, ...
World champion Kento Momota makes short work of Sameer Verma
World badminton champion Kento Momota made a lightning start at the BWF World Tour Finals in China on Wednesday, rampaging past India's overwhelmed Sameer Verma in just 36 minutes. The Japanese star is looking to put the seal on a breakthrough year in which he ...
