Japan's Olympic badminton champion Ayaka Takahashi will not defend her doubles crown with Misaki Matsutomo at next year's Tokyo Games after announcing she will retire at the end of the month. Ayaka ...

Ayaka Takahashi (L) and Misaki Matsutomo of Japan pose with their medals after the women's double's final match against Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong of South Korea at the Indonesia Masters 2019 ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Ayaka Takahashi, who won Japan's first-ever badminton Olympic gold with her doubles partner in Rio 2016, has retired conceding she no longer has the "inner fire" to compete. Takahashi ...

Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi claimed Japan's first-ever Olympic badminton gold medal after beating Denmark's Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl 2-1 in Thursday's women's doubles final ...

Zhao Yunlei (L) and Tian Qing of China return the shuttlecock during their women's doubles finals against Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi of Japan in the Singapore Open badminton tournament in ...

1 Women's Doubles, Group Stage, Group A, Matsutomo/Takahashi v Gutta/Ponnappa 2 (21-15 21-10) 1 Women's Doubles, Group Stage, Group A, Matsutomo/Takahashi v ...

Takahashi and Matsutomo defeated Denmark’s Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl in the Rio Olympics in 2016 to claim the women’s doubles gold medal and secure their nation’s first ever ...

(Reuters) - Japan's Olympic badminton champion Ayaka Takahashi will not defend her doubles crown with Misaki Matsutomo at next year's Tokyo Games after announcing she will retire at the end of the ...

Japan's Olympic badminton champion Ayaka Takahashi will not defend her doubles crown with Misaki Matsutomo at next year's Tokyo Games after announcing she will retire at the end of the month. Aug 20 ...