Yukiko Takahata
Takahata inTaipei, Taiwan in October 2018
Personal information
Country	Japan
Born	(1998-03-18)18 March 1998 (age 27) Hokkaido, Japan
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Handedness	Right
Women's doubles
Highest ranking	9 (withAyako Sakuramoto 5 February 2019)
Medal record Women'sbadminton Representing Japan Asia Mixed Team Championships 2019 Hong Kong Mixed team
BWF profile

Yukiko Takahata (高畑 祐紀子,Takahata Yukiko; born 18 March 1998) is a Japanesebadminton player from the Yonex team.^[1][2] In 2017, she became the women's doubles runner-up at theOsaka International tournament partnered withAyako Sakuramoto.^[3] She won her first senior international title at theSpanish International tournament with Sakuramoto.^[4]

Takahata started to represent the national team in the2015 World Junior Championships held inLima, Peru, and helped the team reach the semifinals. At theBWF Grand Prix events, her best result was a runner-up at the2017 New Zealand Open.

Teamed-up with Sakuramoto, Takahata won seven of eight finals of the 2018 BWF World Tour, with a title of Super 500 tournament fromSingapore Open, three titles of Super 300 tournament fromSwiss,New Zealand, andAustralia Open; and three titles of Super 100 tournament. She participated at the2019 Asia Mixed Team Championships, and won the silver medal after the team lost to the Chinese in the final.

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,^[5] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by theBadminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.^[6]

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2018	Swiss Open	Super 300	Ayako Sakuramoto	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	19–21, 21–15, 21–18	Winner
2018	New Zealand Open	Super 300	Ayako Sakuramoto	Cao Tongwei Zheng Yu	21–9, 21–19	Winner
2018	Australian Open	Super 300	Ayako Sakuramoto	Baek Ha-na Lee Yu-rim	23–21, 21–18	Winner	[7]
2018	Canada Open	Super 100	Ayako Sakuramoto	Isabel Herttrich Carla Nelte	21–13, 21–15	Winner
2018	Singapore Open	Super 500	Ayako Sakuramoto	Nami Matsuyama Chiharu Shida	16–21, 24–22, 21–13	Winner
2018	Akita Masters	Super 100	Ayako Sakuramoto	Nami Matsuyama Chiharu Shida	23–21, 21–11	Winner
2018	Spain Masters	Super 300	Ayako Sakuramoto	Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara	17–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2018	Indonesia Masters	Super 100	Ayako Sakuramoto	Nami Matsuyama Chiharu Shida	11–21, 21–19, 22–20	Winner
2019	Akita Masters	Super 100	Ayako Sakuramoto	Nita Violina Marwah Putri Syaikah	21–17, 14–21, 21–15	Winner

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, theGrand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by theBadminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	New Zealand Open	Ayako Sakuramoto	Vivian Hoo Woon Khe Wei	21–18, 16–21, 19–21	Runner-up

 BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Osaka International	Ayako Sakuramoto	Kim So-yeong Yoo Hae-won	21–16, 17–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2017	Spanish International	Ayako Sakuramoto	Misato Aratama Akane Watanabe	21–10, 21–15	Winner
2018	Osaka International	Ayako Sakuramoto	Naoko Fukuman Kurumi Yonao	21–17, 19–21, 16–21	Runner-up

 BWF International Challenge tournament

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