On January 29th, Beijing time, the Japanese badminton women's doubles team Mimoto Koharu/Tanaka Shiho held a press conference and announced their official retirement.
Mimoto Koharu, who just celebrated his 30th birthday last month, is 1.67 meters tall and is a female badminton doubles player from Japan. She partnered with Shiho Tanaka, who is 2 years younger than herself, and won the women's doubles third place in the 2018 World Championships, the 2019 Thailand Open champion and many other honors, and the world ranking once came to the TOP4 position. In addition, Mi Yuan Xiaochun also won the 2018 Uber Cup with the Japanese team, the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games women's team gold medal, and won the world championship title for the first time at the age of 28.
Unfortunately, Mi Yuan Xiaochun was accidentally injured in the quarter-finals of the 2019 Badminton World Championships and was later diagnosed with Achilles tendon rupture. After a long period of treatment and recovery, Yonemoto Koharu returned to the game and played with his old partner Shiho Tanaka in the All Japan Championship held not long ago, and finally broke into the semi-finals and lost to Fukushima Yuki/Hirota Ayaka. However, despite breaking into the semi-finals, Yonemoto Koharu and Tanaka Shiho failed to be selected for the new Japanese badminton team, which surprised the fans. It is still unknown whether they missed the Japanese national badminton team because they had already made a plan to retire before the game, or they retired disappointedly because of their accidental defeat in the Japanese national badminton team.
Regarding the retirement of the two famous badminton players, Mimoto Koharu and Tanaka Shiho, netizens expressed their reluctance in leaving messages: "Japanese female feather golden generation veterans have gradually faded out of the field", "Takahashi Reika, Mi Yuan Xiaochun, Tanaka Shiho, and the "old man" of the Japanese Yu Women's Doubles have gradually retired", "It's a bit suddenly, I wish all the best in the future."
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