Sho Sasaki

Personal information

Country

Japan

Born

June 30, 1982
Hokkaido, Japan

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Handedness

Left

Coach

Keita Masuda

Men's singles

Highest ranking

6 (November 3, 2011)

Current ranking

17 (May 22, 2014^[1])

Medal record

Men's badminton
Competitor for Japan
Thomas Cup
	2014 New Delhi	Team

BWF profile

Updated on 01:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC).

In this Japanese name, the family name is Sasaki.

Sho Sasaki (佐々木翔, Sasaki Shō, born June 30, 1982 in Hokkaido) is a male badminton player from Japan. He competed in four Asian Games from 2002 to 2014.^[2]

Career

In 2007 he won the Japanese National Championships in men's singles, and 7 international tournaments: the Bahrain Satellite Badminton Tournament, the Banuinvest International Championships, the Osaka International Challenge, the Israel International, the Mauritius International, the Victorian International and the Italian International. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals of the men's singles, losing to Lin Dan.^[3]

Achievements

International Tournament wins

2011—Australian Open, U.S. Open
2010—Yonex Dutch Open, Osaka International Challenge
2007—Japanese National Championships

References

↑ BWF World Ranking
↑ "Profile". Incheon 2014 official website. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
↑ http://www.olympic.org/olympic-results/london-2012/badminton/singles-m

World rankings: Top ten badminton players as of January 28, 2016

Men's singles

Chen L () Lee C W (3) J Ø Jørgensen (1) K Momota (1) Lin D (1) V Axelsen () Chou T-c () Tian HW () S Kidambi () T Sugiarto (1)

Women's singles

C Marín () S Nehwal () Li XR () Wang YH () R Intanon () Wang SX () Sung J-h (1) N Okuhara (1) Tai T-y () A Yamaguchi ()

Men's doubles

Lee Y-d / Yoo Y-s () M Ahsan / H Setiawan () Fu HF / Zhang N () M Boe / C Mogensen () Chai B / Hong W () H Endo / K Hayakawa () Kim G-j / Kim S-r () M Conrad-Petersen / M Pieler Kolding () Ko S-h / Shin B-ci () A Pratama / R K Suwardi ()

Women's doubles

Luo Ying / Luo Yu () N K Maheswari / G Polii (1) M Matsutomo / A Takahashi (1) K Rytter Juhl / C Pedersen (2) Chang Y-n / Lee S-h () Jung K-e / Shin S-c () Ma J / Tang YT () E Muskens / S Piek (1) N Fukuman / K Yonao (1) Tian Q / Zhao YL ()

Mixed doubles

Zhang N / Zhao YL () T Ahmad / L Natsir () Liu C / Bao YX () Ko S-h / Kim H-n (1) J Fischer Nielsen / C Pedersen (1) Xu C / Ma J () C Adcock / G Adcock () P Jordan / D Susanto () Lu K / Huang YQ () Reginald Lee C H / Chau H W ()

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