KENTO MOMOTA
Kento Momota was born 1 September 1994 is a Ja-
panese badminton player. He is known to have a skillful
and relentless play style on court. He has won several
major badminton tournaments including two World
Championships titles, two Asian Championships titles,
and one All England title. Momota entered into Guin-
ness Book of World Records for "The most badminton
men's singles titles in a season", for his achievements
by winning 11 titles in the 2019 season.
Kento Momota started his badminton career
f-rom junior level with quite perfect results.
Momota's badminton talent has been seen
since he was a child. The player born
in Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, on 1 Septem-
ber 1994, started to wrestle with feathers
since he was in the second grade of elemen-
tary school. He won the first title in a fairly
prestigious tournament in Japan, the All
Japan Elementary School Championships.
Kala's Momota, who was in grade 6, came
out as a champion in the men's singles
number. After elementary school, Momota
continued his studies in Junior High School
in Fukushima Prefecture. In his third year, he
again won a similar tournament but at the ju-
nior level, the All Japan Junior High School
Championships. Graduating from junior high
school, Momota studied at Tomioka High
School in Fukushima prefecture to hone his
skills in badminton.
2011 and 2012
Momota's presence was increasingly visible as he took part in a bigger race, the 2011 World Junior
Championships held in Taipei, Taiwan. Even though Momota did not make it as a champion, it was
a valuable lesson when he lost in the semifinal to the Malaysian Zulfadli Zulkiffli who came out as
the 2011 World Junior Champion. Towards the end of 2011, Momota began to compete with his
seniors in the All Japan Badminton Championship or 2011 Japan National Championship. Momota
lost to Kenichi Tago in the final. Even so, his performance was noticed by the Nippon Badminton
Association (NBA). Momota began to join the Japanese national team and was expected to be-
come a future star.
Young Momota continued to learn from his defeats. Momota participated in the 2012 Asian Junior
Championships held in Gimcheon, South Korea. Learning from his mistakes in 2011, he avenged
his defeat in 2011 by becoming 2012 Asia Junior Champion after defeating Malaysian representa-
tives, Soong Joo Ven in two straight games, 21–13, 22–20. In the same year, Momota also won
the World Junior Championships held in Chiba, Japan. Appearing at home, Momota managed to
donate gold in public. In the final round, he beat the mainstay of China, Xue Song through a very
tight rubber game match. Momota won 21–17, 19–21, 21–19.
BWF World Championships( Men’s single)
Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2015 Istora Chen 9–21, 15–21
Senayan, Ja Long Bronze
karta, In-
donesia
2018 Nanjing Shi Yuqi 21–11, 21– Gold
Youth 13
Olympic
Sports
Park, Nanji
ng, China
2019 St. Jakob- Anders 21–9, 21–3 Gold
shalle, Basel Antonsen
, Switzer-
land
Asian Championships Men’s Singles
Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2018 Wuhan Sports Chen 21–17, 21–13 Gold
Cent-re Gym- Long
nasium ,Wuha
n, China
2019 Wuhan Sports Shi Yuqi 12–21, 21– Gold
Cent-re Gym- 18, 21–8
nasium ,Wuha
n , China
Asian Junior Championships
Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2011 Babu Banarasi Zulfadli 18–21, 19–21 Bronze
Das Indoor ulkiffli
Stadium, Luckno
w, India
2012 Gimcheon Indoor Soong Joo 21–13, 22–20 Gold
Stadium, Gimche Ven
on, S-outh Korea
Zulfadli Soong Joo Ven
Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2011 Taoyuan Zulfadli 18–21, 18–21 Bronze
Arena, Taoyuan Zulkiffli
City, Taipei,
Taiwan
2012 Chiba Port Xue Song 21–17, 19–21, 21–19 Gold
Arena, Chiba,
Japan
Xue Song Zulfadli
BWF Super Series
The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in
2007,w-as a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World
Federation . BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season
of Superserie-s consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced
since 2011.S-uccessful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at
the end of each year.
Hu Yun Viktor Axelsen
Jan Ø. Jørgensen
BWF Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of
badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation and played between
20-07 and 2017.
Ihsan Maulana
Mustofa
Yu Igarashi
Kanta Tsuneyama
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