Miu Hirano

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Miu Hirano
Table tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Medal Ceremonies Women 076.jpg
Hirano at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
Born (2000-04-14) 14 April 2000 (age 21)
Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Playing styleRight-handed, Shakehand grip, Counter Driver
Equipment(s)Butterfly Viscaria FL (blade), Butterfly Tenergy 05 Hard (FH, black), Butterfly Tenergy 05 (BH, red)
Highest ranking5 (July 2017)[1]
Current ranking11 (January 2020)[2]
Club
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)[3]
Weight45 kg (99 lb)[3]
Medal record

Miu Hirano (平野 美宇, Hirano Miu) (born 14 April 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player.[4] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's team, winning a silver medal.[5]

She won the women's singles at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships, sweeping away three top Chinese players - Olympic champion and world number one Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling and in the finals, Chen Meng - to clinch the championship. She also won the 2016 Women's World Cup — the youngest ever winner.

Career[]

2014[]

In March 2014, she and Mima Ito won their first doubles title at ITTF World Tour German Open. They became the youngest ever winners of the doubles competition in the ITTF World Tour.[6][7] She was part of the Japanese team in 2014 Asian Games, but lost to China in the final.

In April 2014 she won her second doubles title with Mima Ito at the ITTF World Tour Spanish open.[8]

In December 2014, she won the doubles title with Mima Ito at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Bangkok. The pair defeated Singapore pair of Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu in the semi-finals and Poland pair of Katarzyna Grzybowska and Natalia Partyka in the final.[9]

2015[]

On 5 July 2015, Miu Hirano and Mima Ito won the Women's Doubles title at the ITTF World Tour Korean Open.[10] This was their third doubles title since 2014.

2016[]

In April 2016, she won her first women's singles title in ITTF World Tour Polish Open by defeating Yu Mengyu in the Final.[11]

On 9 October 2016, with the absence of Chinese players, she seized the opportunity to win the Women's World Cup in Philadelphia, USA after defeating Mima Ito in the quarterfinals, Feng Tianwei in the semi-final and Cheng I-ching in the final. This marks the youngest women's World Cup Champion and the first non-Chinese player to win the title.[12]

Hirano celebrating the moment she won the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships.

2017[]

On 22 January 2017, she won All Japan Championships by defeating Kasumi Ishikawa 4–2 in the final at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.[13] On 14 April 2017, she defeated the world ranked No.1 player Ding Ning at the 2017 ITTF Asian Table Tennis Championships.[14] The following day of the tournament, she defeated the world ranked No.2 player Zhu Yuling in the Semifinals [15] and Chen Meng world ranked No.5 in the Finals, where she set a new record for the youngest winner of the Asian Championships in the Singles Event. She became the third non-Chinese player ever and the first non-Chinese player since Chire Koyama in 1996 to win the Singles title.[16]

In the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships in Düsseldorf, Hirano progressed to the singles semi-finals but lost to Ding Ning of China. She obtained a joint bronze medal with Liu Shiwen of China. This ended a long medal drought for Japan in women's singles at the world championships since Toshiko Kowada achieved the gold medal in 1969 World Championships.[17]

2021[]

Hirano represented Japan at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in the team event. However, she will not play in the singles event.[18] In March, Hirano played in WTT Doha, but suffered disappointing upsets in both the WTT Contender and WTT Star Contender event, including a loss to Shin Yubin in a potential Olympic Team preview.[19]

Hirano won silver in the team event at the Tokyo Olympics.[20]

Career records[]

Statistics correct as of 7 May 2017[21]

Singles[]

Doubles[]

  • World Championships: : round of 32 (2015)
  • World Tour
    • Winner: German, Spanish Open (2014); Korea Open (2015)
    • Runner-up: Korea Open (2014); Spanish Open (2015)
  • World Tour Grand Finals
    • Winner : Bangkok Open (2014)
    • Runner-up : Lisbon Open (2015)
  • Asian Championships: Runner-up (2015)
  • World Junior Championships: Runner-up (2014)

Mixed doubles[]

Team[]

  • Asian Games: Runner-up (2014)
  • Asian Championships: Runner-up (2015,2017)
  • World Junior Championships
    • Winner (2016)
    • Runner-up (2014,2015)

Finals[]

Singles[]

Titles 3、runner-ups 2

Result Year.Month Tournament Score Opponent
runner-ups 2014.04 ITTF World Tour Spanish Open 1-4 SwedenLi Fen
Winner 2016.04 ITTF World Tour Polish Open 4-0 SingaporeYu Mengyu
runner-ups 2016.05 ITTF World Tour Croatia Open 1-4 JapanHitomi Sato (table tennis)
Winner 2016.10 World Cup 4-0 Chinese TaipeiCheng I-ching
Winner 2017.04 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships 3-0 ChinaChen Meng

Doubles[]

Titles 4、runner-ups 4

Result Year.Month Tournament Partner Score Opponent
Winner 2014.03 ITTF World Tour German Open JapanMima Ito 3-0 PolandKatarzyna Grzybowska/PolandNatalia Partyka
Winner 2014.04 ITTF World Tour Spanish Open JapanMima Ito 3-2 AustriaLiu Jia/Czech RepublicIveta Vacenovská
runner-ups 2014.06 ITTF World Tour Korea Open JapanMima Ito 0-3 China [zh]/ChinaWang Manyu
Winner 2014.12 World Tour Grand Finals JapanMima Ito 4-0 PolandKatarzyna Grzybowska/PolandNatalia Partyka
runner-ups 2015.03 ITTF World Tour Spanish Open JapanMima Ito 2-3 JapanAi Fukuhara/Japan [ja]
Winner 2015.07 ITTF World Tour Korea Open JapanMima Ito 3-2 JapanHina Hayata/JapanHitomi Sato (table tennis)
runner-ups 2015.10 2015 Asian Table Tennis Championships JapanMima Ito 0-4 North Korea/North KoreaRi Mi-gyong
runner-ups 2015.12 World Tour Grand Finals JapanMima Ito 0-4 ChinaDing Ning/ChinaZhu Yuling

Performance timelines[]

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G F-S SF-B NMS P NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

S=Singles,D=Doubles,T=Team

Current through the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships.

Year World Championships World Cup World Tour Grand Finals Asian Games Asian Championship Asian Cup
S D T S T S D T S D T S
2014 W F
2015 3R 2R F 4R F F
2016 W B 5P
2017 B 3R 4P 1R W F 4P
2018 F F 5P

ITTF World ranking[]

Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec.
2010 841 826 813 826
2011 822 823 822 810 802 810 769 550 498 402 405 388
2012 389 396 394 408 313 281 253 255 279 283 276 281
2013 283 283 182 181 179 180 147 154 103 110 110 78
2014 69 69 53 49 33 34 33 33 45 44 48 42
2015 37 37 51 36 29 19 18 20 17 18 16 16
2016 18 21 19 19 11 11 14 14 16 17 9 11
2017 9 9 9 11 8 7 5 5 6 6 5 6
2018 6 7 6 6 6 7

Awards[]

  • 2016: ITTF Breakthrough Star of the Year[22]

Records[]

  • World Cup Women's singles the youngest Champion
  • Asian Championship Women's singles the youngest Champion

In popular culture[]

Hirano made her acting debut in the 2018 Fuji TV drama .[23]

References[]

  1. ^ "ITTF World Ranking Profile Hirano Miu". ITTF. Archived from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Current WR - Women". ITTF.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Athlete's Profile". 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee. Archived from the original on 2 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Miu Hirano – one of the worlds' most promising young girls signs with STIGA!". Stiga Table Tennis. 2013-04-02. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  5. ^ "Table Tennis HIRANO Miu - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  6. ^ "Table Tennis Japanese 13-year-olds make history at German Open". Sport Asia. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  7. ^ "13 Year Old Japanese Duo Create History on the ITTF World Tour". Around The Rings. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  8. ^ "Maturity Beyond Years, Miu Hirano and Mima Ito Repeat Magdeburg Success". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  9. ^ "At A Glance: Japanese Teenagers Create History in Bangkok". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  10. ^ "Gold for Miu Hirano and Mima Ito, Youngest Final Ever". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  11. ^ "Result of Previous Month Reversed, Miu Hirano Wins in Poland". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2016-04-24. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  12. ^ "Miu Hirano responds to occasion, writes history, wins Seamaster Women's World Cup". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  13. ^ "Hirano wins All Japan Championships". 2017-01-22.
  14. ^ "Hurricane Hirano shocks Olympic and World Champion Ding Ning out of Asian Championships". 2017-04-14.
  15. ^ "Hurricane Hirano gale force, blows away Zhu Yuling". 2017-04-15.
  16. ^ "Marvellous Miu and her magical ways". 2017-04-15.
  17. ^ "Hirano ends long medal drought for Japan women". Archived from the original on 2017-06-13. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  18. ^ "WTT Doha 2021 Preview Part 3: Women's Singles seeds 5 To 8". edgesandnets.com. 2021-02-14. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  19. ^ "A Deep Dive Into How Shin Yubin Upset Miu Hirano 3-1". edgesandnets.com. 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  20. ^ "Chinese Women Cruise To Olympic Gold - Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  21. ^ "HIRANO Miu（JPN）ID：117820". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  22. ^ "Table Tennis: Hirano wins ITTF Breakthrough Star award". Mainichi Shimbun. 2016-12-10. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  23. ^ "卓球・平野美宇選手がドラマ初出演!!". Fuji TV (in Japanese). 28 May 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

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