Miu Hirano
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Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture | April 14, 2000||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 45 kg (99 lb; 7.1 st)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing style | Right-handed, Shakehand grip, Counter Driver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment(s) | Stiga Clipper Wood, Butterfly Tenergy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 9 (November 2016)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 11 (December 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Miu Hirano (平野 美宇, Hirano Miu) (born April 14, 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player.[5]
Career
2014
On March 2014, she and Mima Ito won their first doubles title at ITTF World Tour German Open. They became the youngest ever winners of the doubles competition in the ITTF World Tour.[3][6] She was part of the Japanese team in 2014 Asian Games, but lost to China in Final.
On April 2014 she won her second doubles title with Mima Ito at the ITTF World Tour Spanish open.[7]
On December 2014, she won the doubles title with Mima Ito at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Bangkok. The pair defeated Singapore pair of Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu in semi-finals and Poland pair of Katarzyna Grzybowska and Natalia Partyka in final. [8]
2015
On 5 July 2015, Miu Hirano and Mima Ito won the Women’s Doubles title at ITTF World Tour Korean Open. [9] This is their third double titles since year 2014.
2016
On April 2016, she won her first women´s singles title in ITTF World Tour Polish Open by defeating Yu Mengyu in the Final.[10]
On 9 October 2016, with the absence of Chinese players, she seizes the opportunity to win the Women's World Cup in Philadelphia, USA after defeating Mima Ito in the quarterfinals, Feng Tianwei in the semi-final and Cheng I-ching in the final. This marks the youngest women's World Cup Champion and the first non-Chinese player to win the title.[11]
2017
On 22 January 2017, she won All Japan Championships by defeating Kasumi Ishikawa 4-2 in the final at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.[12] On 14 April 2017, she defeated the world ranked No.1 player Ding Ning at the 2017 ITTF Asian Table Tennis Championships. [13] The following day of the tournament, she defeated the world ranked No.2 player Zhu Yuling in the Semifinals [14] and Chen Meng world ranked No.5 in the Finals, where she set a new record for the youngest winner of the Asian Championships in the Singles Event. She became the third non-Chinese player ever and the first non-Chinese player since Chire Koyama in 1996 to win the Singles title.[15]
Awards
References
- ^ a b "Athlete's Profile". 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "World Ranking - HIRANO Miu". ITTF. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Table Tennis Japanese 13-year-olds make history at German Open". Sport Asia. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Miyu Kato Completes Doubles, Cadet Title Added to Earlier Junior Success". ITTF. 2013-05-26. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
- ^ "Miu Hirano – one of the worlds' most promising young girls signs with STIGA!". Stiga Table Tennis. 2013-04-02. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "13 Year Old Japanese Duo Create History on the ITTF World Tour". Around The Rings. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Maturity Beyond Years, Miu Hirano and Mima Ito Repeat Magdeburg Success". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ^ "At A Glance: Japanese Teenagers Create History in Bangkok". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ^ "Gold for Miu Hirano and Mima Ito, Youngest Final Ever". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ^ "Result of Previous Month Reversed, Miu Hirano Wins in Poland". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ^ "Miu Hirano responds to occasion, writes history, wins Seamaster Women's World Cup". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
- ^ http://www.ittf.com/2017/01/22/breaking-news-hirano-wins-japan-championships/
- ^ http://www.ittf.com/2017/04/14/hurricane-hirano-shocks-olympic-world-champion-ding-ning-asian-championships/
- ^ http://www.ittf.com/2017/04/15/hurricane-hirano-gale-force-blows-away-zhu-yuling/
- ^ http://www.ittf.com/2017/04/15/marvelous-miu-magical-ways/
- ^ "Table Tennis: Hirano wins ITTF Breakthrough Star award". Mainichi Shimbun. 2016-12-10. Retrieved 2016-12-11.