Catch Up: 2018 All Japan National Championships (Final Results Updated)


From 15 January to 21 January, over 1000 Japanese athletes will be competing for the All Japan National Championships titles on offer in both junior and open categories.

The All Japan National Championship comprised 7 events: Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles, Mixed Doubles, Junior Boys' Singles and Junior Girls' Singles. Meanwhile the men's singles champion and women's singles champion of this tournament will earn the tickets to the 2018 World Team Championships staged in Halmstad, Sweden between 29 April to 6 May, joining Jun Mizutani (top ranked Japanese players in 2017 December), Koki Niwa (defeated a world ranked top 3 Chinese player once in major meets, i.e. Xu Xin in 2017 Asian Championships) and Harimoto Tomokazu (winner of the final Japanese Trials for 2018 WTTC), Kasumi Ishikawa (top ranked Japanese players in 2017 December), Miu Hirano (defeated a world ranked top 3 Chinese player once in major meets, i.e. Ding Ning in 2017 Asian Championships) and Ito Mima (winner of the final Japanese Trials for 2018 WTTC) who have already met the selection criteria of the 2018 World Championships.

All eyes will be on Jun Mizutani and Miu Hirano, the defending singles champion as well as established players from the Japanese team and up-and-coming promising young stars. 
The following promotional video of the championships has shown you all the athletes that you should keep an eye on.



The good news is that there will be live streams for the competition (Yeah!). 
Click the links for the schedule, draws (MS, WS, MD, WD, XD, JBS, JGS) and results (click the code of the match to find the detailed results).

Brief Results

Men's Singles
Champion: Harimoto Tomokazu
1st Runner-up: Jun Mizutani
2nd Runner-up: Kenta Matsudaira & Masataka Morizono

Women's Singles
Champion: Ito Mima
1st Runner-up: Miu Hirano
2nd Runner-up: Kasumi Ishikawa & Nagao Takako

Men's Doubles
Champion: Jun Mizutani / Yuya Oshima
1st Runner-up: Ueda Jin / Yoshida Masaki
2nd Runner-up: Uda Yukiya / Harimoto Tomokazu & Yoshimura Kazuhiro / Fujimura Tomoya

Women's Doubles
Champion: Hina Hayata / Ito Mima
1st Runner-up: Umemura Yuka / Shiomi Maki 
2nd Runner-up: Tashiro Saki / Maeda Miyu & Sato Hitomi / Hashimoto Honoka


Mixed Doubles
Champion: Masataka Morizono / Ito Mima
1st Runner-up: Karube Ryusuke / Matsumoto Yuki 
2nd Runner-up: Maharu Yoshimura / Kasumi Ishikawa & Yuya Oshima / Hina Hayata

Junior Boys' Singles
Champion: Harimoto Tomokazu
1st Runner-up: Yuda Yukiya
2nd Runner-up: Kanamitsu Koyo & Togami Shunsuke

Junior Girls' Singles
Champion: Nagasaki Miyu
1st Runner-up: Shiomi Maki
2nd Runner-up: Odo Satsuki & Kihara Miyuu


Schedule (GMT+9)

January 15 (15:00-20:00)
Mixed Doubles Round of 256
Junior Boys' Round of 256
Junior Girls' Round of 256

January 16 (09:30-19:30)
Men's Doubles Round of 128 & 256
Women's DoubleRound of 128 & 256
Mixed Doubles Round of 64 & 128
Junior Boys' Round of 64, 128 & 256
Junior Girls' Round of 64 & 128

January 17 (09:30-19:30)
Men's Singles Round of 128, 256 & 512
Women's Singles Round of of 128, 256 & 512
Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals & Round of 32
Junior Boys' Round of 16 & 32
Junior Girls' Round of 16 & 32

January 18 (10:00-13:00; 14:00-20:00)
Men's Singles Round of 64
Women's Singles Round of 64
Men's Doubles Round of 32 & 64
Women's DoubleRound of 32 & 64
Mixed Doubles Semifinals & Finals
Junior Boys' Quarterfinals, Semifinals & Finals
Junior Girls' Quarterfinals, Semifinals & Finals

January 19 (10:00-14:30; 15:00-18:30)
Men's Singles Round of 16 & 32
Women's Singles Round of 16 & 32
Men's Doubles Round of 16 & Quarterfinals
Women's DoubleRound of 16 & Quarterfinals

January 20 (10:00-17:00)
Men's Singles Quarterfinals
Women's Singles Quarterfinals
Men's Doubles Semifinals & Finals
Women's Doubles Semifinals & Finals

January 21(10:00-17:00)
Men's Singles Semifinals & Finals
Women's Singles Semifinals & Finals


It is often the case that we find someone came out of nowhere and did something big in international competitions. There are actually ways to keep up with the whole story. Follow the domestic competitions! As you may have noticed this article falls into our new series "Catch Up". The series will cover information and brief results of the domestic competitions. Since there may not be always live streams or video of these competitions available out there (meaning that I may not be able to follow the entire tournament), articles in this series will not include all the details and analysis of the tournament but concise articles with the links directed to the official results is what you can expect from this series. I hope you enjoy the series and do check our 2018 Table Tennis Calendar which has listed some major international and domestic competitions in 2018,

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