Koki Watanabe


Koki Watanabe is a Japanese badminton player. He graduated from the Saitama Sakae high school, and was part of the Unysis team since 2017. He won his first international title at the 2018 Yonex / K&D Graphics International tournament.

Career

Watanabe started his badminton career when he was four years old, entered the badminton club under the influence of his sister. He later concentrate his badminton career in the kindergarten, and when he was in the elementary school, he won the Saitama school championships in third consecutive years. Watanabe entered the Saitamasakaechugakko Koto school, and won the singles title at the national junior championships, also placed third in the doubles event. He was part of the national junior team that competed at the 2015 and 2016 Asia and World Junior Championships, brought the World boy's singles bronze medal in 2015, also helped the national team won the 2015, 2016 Asian, also 2016 World Junior bronze medals.
In 2018, Watanabe became the runner-up at the BWF Super 100 tournament Russian Open.

Achievements

BWF World Junior Championships

Boys' singles
YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2015Centro de Alto Rendimiento de la Videna, Lima, Peru Lu Chia-hung18–21, 12–21 Bronze

BWF World Tour

The BWF World Tour, announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. The BWF World Tour are divided into six levels, namely World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Men's singles
YearTournamentLevelOpponentScoreResult
2019Orléans MastersSuper 100 Thomas Rouxel18–21, 21–12, 21–19 Winner
2018Russian OpenSuper 100 Sourabh Verma21–18, 12–21, 17–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series

Men's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2019Osaka International Takuma Obayashi19–21, 21–17, 21–7 Winner
2018Yonex / K&D Graphics International Kodai Naraoka21–14, 14–21, 21–15 Winner