Nozomi Okuhara

Nozomi Okuhara
Okuhara at the 2025 Kaohsiung Masters
Personal information
Born (1995-03-13) 13 March 1995
Ōmachi, Nagano, Japan[1]
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)[2]
Weight52 kg (115 lb)[2]
Sport
CountryJapan
SportBadminton
HandednessRight[2]
Coached byTakako Ida
Shōji Satō
Women's singles
Career record402 wins, 153 losses
Highest ranking1 (29 October 2019)
Current ranking30 (25 November 2025)
BWF profile
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Women's singles
World Championships
2017 Glasgow Women's singles
2019 Basel Women's singles
Sudirman Cup
2015 Dongguan Mixed team
2019 Nanning Mixed team
2017 Gold Coast Mixed team
Uber Cup
2018 Bangkok Women's team
2016 Kunshan Women's team
2022 Bangkok Women's team
2024 Chengdu Women's team
Asian Games
2018 Jakarta–Palembang Women's team
Asia Team Championships
2018 Alor Setar Women's team
2016 Hyderabad Women's team
2024 Selangor Women's team
World Junior Championships
2012 Chiba Girls' singles
2012 Chiba Mixed team
2011 Taipei Girls' singles
Asian Junior Championships
2012 Gimcheon Mixed team
2012 Gimcheon Girls' singles

Nozomi Okuhara (奥原 希望, Okuhara Nozomi; born 13 March 1995) is a Japanese badminton player. A former World's number 1 in the BWF rankings for the women's singles, she is well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[3] and gold medal at the 2017 World Championships.[4]

Career

Okuhara started playing badminton in 2002. Eight years later, in 2010, she joined the Japanese national team. The 2010 Osaka International Challenge became her international debut.

2010–2012

In 2010, Okuhara reached the final of Lao International which she lost to Nitchaon Jindapol.[5] The 16-year-old Okuhara became the youngest women's singles champion ever at the Japanese National Championships in 2011.[6] Additionally, she won the Austrian title by defeating her teammate Mayu Sekiya and a bronze medal at World Junior Championships.[7][8]

Okuhara was a runner-up at the Asian Junior Championships,[9] and helped her team in winning the mixed team title. She later clinched the gold medal at the World Junior Championships,[10] having won bronze one year earlier at the 2011 BWF World Junior Championships. In July, she won her first Grand Prix title at the Canada Open.[11]

2013–2014

In 2013, while competing in her quarterfinal match against Saina Nehwal at Malaysia Open, she suffered a severe knee injury in the 3rd game and remained out of International circuit for almost a year.[12] On her way to returning to elite competition, she participated in her first tournament in November since her last in January 2013 at the China Premier event.

In 2014, she won the New Zealand Open beating Kana Ito in final.[13] She also won the Vietnam Open[14] and Korean Grand Prix titles.[15] She reached her first Superseries final at the Hong Kong Open in year end. On her way to the final, she defeated Reigning World Champion Carolina Marín in the semifinal in 2 very one-sided games. However, she finished second to Tai Tzu-ying in the finals.[16]

2015

Okuhara won two Grand Prix Gold titles at Malaysia[17] and United States.[18] In both occasions, she got the better of her compatriots Sayaka Takahashi and Sayaka Sato respectively. She also won China International event.[19] At the Malaysian Superseries event, she played the longest ever Women's singles match against Wang Shixian in quarterfinal which lasted for whopping 111 minutes.[20] Okuhara lost that match and was cramping heavily at the end. Scorecard was 21–19, 15–21, 20–22 in favour of Shixian. She won her first Superseries title at Japan Open in the final defeating her colleague Akane Yamaguchi with score of 21–18, 21–12.[21] At the World Championships in Jakarta seeded 9th, she failed to get past Thai Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in 1st round having lost to her twice before.[22] Just like previous season, Okuhara again reached the final of Hong Kong Open. She lost a very difficult encounter to Carolina Marín there, a contest of 3 games with very tight scoreline.[23] At the end of the 2015 BWF season, she won the Dubai World Superseries final. On her path through without dropping a single game, she defeated all of her opponents namely Saina Nehwal, Tai Tzu-ying and top seed Carolina Marín. She defeated Marín twice, first in the preliminary round and again in semifinals with very one-sided scores. In the final she beat Wang Yihan 22–20, 21–18.[24]

2016–2017

In 2016, she won the prestigious All England Open on her Birthday after defeating Wang Shixian in the final with score 21–11, 16–21, 21–19, and thereby became the first Japanese women's singles player to lift this title in 39 years since Hiroe Yuki's triumph back in 1977.[25] She was seeded 6th for Rio Olympic Games. She defeated Akane Yamaguchi in quarterfinal 11–21, 21–17, 21–10 and reached the semis. Her opponent for semifinal was No. 9 seed P. V. Sindhu. Okuhara had no answers to Indian's attacking play and she went down in 2-straight games 19–21, 10–21.[26] In the bronze medal match she was given walkover against Li Xuerui of China as her opponent was injured. In the process, she became Japan's first ever Badminton Women's singles player to win an Olympic medal. In the China Superseries in November, she developed shoulder issues which forced her to withdraw from Hong Kong Open and her chance of defending the Dubai Superseries Finals title was thwarted.[27]

In 2017, Okuhara claimed her first ever Australian Open title with a win over Akane Yamaguchi.[28] Continuing her good form, she participated at the World Championships seeded 7th. After defeating Canada's Rachel Honderich and teammate Aya Ohori, she had an uphill task against Carolina Marín of Spain in the quarterfinals. She beat Marín, the two-time reigning Champion in a gruelling battle of an hour and 33 minutes. She also claimed hard-fought victory over Saina Nehwal in the semifinals, having lost the opening game. For the final, she faced opposition from P. V. Sindhu. She managed to edge a 21–19, 20–22, 22–20 victory over the Indian in one of the classics of Badminton history. Match stretched for 1:50 hours, making it the 2nd longest match in Women's singles badminton ever. Ironically enough, the longest one was also played by Okuhara; in 2015 against Shixian at the Malaysian Superseries, which she lost. With Okuhara's victory, she became the first ever Japanese to win the World title since 1977.[4] After her triumph at the World stage, she also reached the final of Korean Open Premier Superseries, in which P. V. Sindhu managed to beat Okuhara.[29] However afterwards she suffered knee injury and her performance dipped. She opted not to participate at the Dubai Superseries Finals, so as not to aggravate her knee problems.

2018

In May, Okuhara helped Japan to win the Uber Cup again after 37 years. Japan beat Thailand by 3–0 in the final and Okuhara didn't lose any of her matches.[30] She went to World Championships in Nanjing as defending champion but lost to the player she beat in the 2017 final, P. V. Sindhu, in 2 straight games in the quarterfinals.[31] She won her first ever World Tour Title, the Thailand Open Super 500 by defeating P. V. Sindhu 21–15 and 18.[32] In addition, she reached five more finals and won 2 of them in Korea[33] and Hong Kong,[34] both Super 500 events. Her final finishes were in Japan Super 750 (lost to Carolina Marín)[35] Fuzhou Super 750 events (lost to Chen Yufei)[36] and World Tour Finals in Guangzhou to P. V. Sindhu.[37]

2019–20

Okuhara reached the final of Singapore Open, but lost it to Tai Tzu-ying.[38] Also, she reached the final of Australia Open[39] & Japan Open[40] but lost to Chen Yufei and Akane Yamaguchi respectively. In the World Championships, she was seeded 3rd. She defeated He Bingjiao and Ratchanok Intanon; reached the final of this tournament once more and set her encounter with P. V. Sindhu. In a repeat clash of 2017 World Championships final, she was defeated 7–21, 7–21 by the Indian player, henceforth settled for the silver medal.[41] She succeeded in occupying the Ranking 1 of the world shifting Tai Tzu-ying on 29 October 2019.[42] She also contested the Denmark Open final, which she lost to Tai Tzu-ying with 17–21, 14–21 scores.[43] She was the runner-up in 6th straight tournament, after her defeat in the hands of Chen Yufei in Fuzhou China Open with the scores 21–9, 12–21, 18–21.[44] She took part in World Tour Finals in Guangzhou where she had best of starts; defeating all her opponents of group stage. But in semi finals, she was beaten by Tai Tzu-ying whom she has beaten in group stage earlier. Okuhara won 2020 Denmark Open tournament after surpassing 3rd seed Carolina Marín in 2 games with scores 21–19, 21–17. This was the first time in 2 years that she won a World Tour title since her last at Hong Kong Open in 2018.[45]

2021–2022

She won her second England Open title after her last in 2016 by beating Pornpawee Chochuwong from Thailand. She defeated her opponent in two games 21–12, 21–16.[46] Okuhara qualified for another Olympics in Tokyo but she lost in quarter finals to He Bingjiao with scoreline of 21–13, 13–21, 14–21.[47] In 2022, Okuhara did not win a single tournament in which her best finishes only in semifinals of Hylo Open where she lost to Zhang Yiman.[48] After her withdrawal from 2021 BWF World Championships in second round the previous year, Okuhara missed the whole tournament again in 2022 due to injury.[49][50]

2023–2025

In 2023, Okuhara mostly knocked out early in majority of it but manage to seal two world tour titles in Syed Modi International and Odisha Masters.[51][52] During Odisha Masters, Okuhara had a terrible experience when she was scammed by the local taxi drivers, stucked four hours in the hotel and had to paid extensive amount of fare in logistics. Thankfully, her cohorts, P.V. Sindhu and H.S. Prannoy came to rescue and safely brought her to the arena.[53][54] Badminton Association of India (BAI) stated that the incident is very unfortunate for Okuhara and promised that it won't happen again in the future.[55] In the next year, her luck dissipated as she made only one final in Indonesia Masters where she lost to Wang Zhiyi in the final.[56]

In 2025, Her performance does not improve much in early season as she bounced out early in All England Open against Sindhu.[57] As the season progress, she became more consistent and reached three quarterfinals in Canada Open, Macau Open and the first Indonesia Masters Super 100.[58][59][60] In October, Okuhara had a great streak of winning 3 straight titles in S100 - Kaohsiung Masters, Malaysia Super 100 and the second Indonesia Masters Super 100.[61][62][63]

Achievements

Olympic Games

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2016 Riocentro – Pavilion 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Li Xuerui Walkover Bronze [3]

BWF World Championships

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2017 Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland P. V. Sindhu 21–19, 20–22, 22–20 Gold [4]
2019 St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland P. V. Sindhu 7–21, 7–21 Silver [41]

BWF World Junior Championships

Girls' singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2011 Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan, Taiwan Ratchanok Intanon 16–21, 16–21 Bronze [8]
2012 Chiba Port Arena, Chiba, Japan Akane Yamaguchi 21–12, 21–9 Gold [10]

Asian Junior Championships

Girls' singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2012 Gimcheon Indoor Stadium, Gimcheon, South Korea P. V. Sindhu 21–18, 17–21, 20–22 Silver [9]

BWF World Tour (10 titles, 9 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[64] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.[65]

Women's singles

Year Tournament Level Opponent Score Result Ref
2018 Thailand Open Super 500 P. V. Sindhu 21–15, 21–18 Winner [32]
2018 Japan Open Super 750 Carolina Marín 19–21, 21–17, 11–21 Runner-up [35]
2018 Korea Open Super 500 Beiwen Zhang 21–10, 17–21, 21–16 Winner [33]
2018 Fuzhou China Open Super 750 Chen Yufei 10–21, 16–21 Runner-up [36]
2018 Hong Kong Open Super 500 Ratchanok Intanon 21–19, 24–22 Winner [34]
2018 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals P. V. Sindhu 19–21, 17–21 Runner-up [37]
2019 Singapore Open Super 500 Tai Tzu-ying 19–21, 15–21 Runner-up [38]
2019 Australian Open Super 300 Chen Yufei 15–21, 3–21 Runner-up [39]
2019 Japan Open Super 750 Akane Yamaguchi 13–21, 15–21 Runner-up [40]
2019 Denmark Open Super 750 Tai Tzu-ying 17–21, 14–21 Runner-up [43]
2019 Fuzhou China Open Super 750 Chen Yufei 21–9, 12–21, 18–21 Runner-up [44]
2020 Denmark Open Super 750 Carolina Marín 21–19, 21–17 Winner [45]
2021 All England Open Super 1000 Pornpawee Chochuwong 21–12, 21–16 Winner [46]
2023 Syed Modi International Super 300 Line Kjærsfeldt 21–19, 21–16 Winner [51]
2023 Odisha Masters Super 100 Lo Sin Yan 21–7, 21–23, 22–20 Winner [52]
2024 Indonesia Masters Super 500 Wang Zhiyi 14–21, 13–21 Runner-up [56]
2025 Kaohsiung Masters Super 100 Hina Akechi 21–16, 21–17 Winner [61]
2025 Malaysia Super 100 Super 100 Wong Ling Ching 21–18, 21–11 Winner [62]
2025 (II) Indonesia Masters Super 100 Devika Sihag 21–11, 21–9 Winner [63]

BWF Superseries (4 titles, 3 runners-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,[66] was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011.[67] Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result Ref
2014 Hong Kong Open Tai Tzu-ying 19–21, 11–21 Runner-up [16]
2015 Japan Open Akane Yamaguchi 21–18, 21–12 Winner [21]
2015 Hong Kong Open Carolina Marín 17–21, 21–18, 20–22 Runner-up [23]
2015 Dubai World Superseries Finals Wang Yihan 22–20, 21–18 Winner [24]
2016 All England Open Wang Shixian 21–11, 16–21, 21–19 Winner [25]
2017 Australian Open Akane Yamaguchi 21–12, 21–23, 21–17 Winner [28]
2017 Korea Open P. V. Sindhu 20–22, 21–11, 18–21 Runner-up [29]
  BWF Superseries Finals tournament
  BWF Superseries Premier tournament
  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (6 titles)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) which was held from 2007 to 2017.

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result Ref
2012 Canada Open Sayaka Takahashi 21–8, 21–16 Winner [11]
2014 New Zealand Open Kana Ito 21–15, 21–3 Winner [13]
2014 Vietnam Open Aya Ohori 21–15, 21–11 Winner [14]
2014 Korea Grand Prix Sayaka Sato 21–17, 21–13 Winner [15]
2015 Malaysia Masters Sayaka Takahashi 21–13, 21–17 Winner [17]
2015 U.S. Open Sayaka Sato 21–16, 21–14 Winner [18]
  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result Ref
2010 Lao International Nitchaon Jindapol 16–21, 17–21 Runner-up [5]
2011 Austrian International Mayu Sekiya 21–6, 21–16 Winner [7]
2015 China International Chen Yufei 21–19, 21–16 Winner [19]
  BWF International Challenge tournament

Performance timeline

Key
W F SF QF #R RR Q# A G S B NH N/A DNQ
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Career overview

National team

Junior level

Events 2011 2012
Asian Junior Championships QF G
World Junior Championships 5th S

Senior level

Team events 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Asia Team Championships NH S NH G NH A NH A NH B
Asian Games NH G NH A NH
Uber Cup NH B NH G NH A NH B NH B
Sudirman Cup S NH B NH S NH A NH A NH

Individual competitions

Junior level

Girls' singles

Events 2011 2012
Asian Junior Championships 2R S
World Junior Championships B G

Girls' doubles

Events 2011
Asian Junior Championships 2R
World Junior Championships 2R

Senior level

Women's singles
Events 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Ref
Asian Championships 1R A 3R QF 1R 1R QF NH 1R A 1R A
Asian Games NH A NH QF NH A NH
World Championships NH DNQ 2R NH G QF S NH w/d w/d QF NH DNQ [4][41]
Olympic Games DNQ NH B NH QF NH DNQ NH [3]
Tournament BWF Superseries / Grand Prix BWF World Tour Best Ref
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Malaysia Open A QF A QF 2R SF 2R SF NH QF 1R A 1R Q SF ('17, '19) [12][20]
India Open A QF w/d QF A NH A 1R QF 1R Q QF ('15, '17, '24)
Indonesia Masters A 2R 2R A NH QF 1R 2R A 1R F 2R F ('24) [56]
Thailand Masters NH A NH A QF A QF ('24)
German Open A SF SF A SF SF NH w/d w/d A SF ('15, '16, '18, '19)
All England Open A 1R W 1R QF SF SF W QF 1R 1R 1R W ('16, '21) [25][46]
Swiss Open A NH A 2R SF A SF ('24)
Taipei Open A 1R QF A NH A 2R QF ('15)
Thailand Open A 1R QF A NH A W w/d w/d NH 2R A W ('18) [32]
w/d
Malaysia Masters A QF A SF W A w/d QF QF NH QF A 2R W ('15) [17]
Singapore Open A QF 2R 1R A F NH A QF A F ('19) [38]
Indonesia Open A 1R QF 2R 2R QF NH A QF 1R 1R 1R QF ('16, '19, '22)
U.S. Open A W A NH A 1R W ('15) [18]
Canada Open A SF W A NH A w/d SF QF W ('12) [11]
Japan Open A 2R 2R A W QF SF F F NH w/d 1R 2R A W ('15) [21][40]
China Open A 1R 1R A QF 1R 1R SF 1R NH A SF ('18)
Macau Open A NH A QF QF ('25)
Baoji China Masters NH A 2R 2R ('25)
Vietnam Open A 2R A W A NH A W ('14) [14]
Hong Kong Open A Q2 F F w/d A W QF NH 1R w/d A W ('18) [34]
China Masters A 2R A F F NH QF A F ('18, '19) [36][44]
Indonesia Masters Super 100 NH A NH A QF A QF W ('25 I) [60]
A W [63]
Kaohsiung Masters NH 2R A W W ('25) [61]
Korea Open A QF w/d F W QF NH A w/d A W ('18) [33]
Arctic Open A NH A NH 1R A 1R ('23)
Denmark Open A 2R QF w/d QF F W A 2R 1R A W ('20) [43][45]
Malaysia Super 100 N/A A W W ('25) [62]
French Open A QF w/d A 2R 2R NH A 2R 1R 1R A QF ('15)
Hylo Open Q3 A QF A SF A SF ('22) [48]
Korea Masters 1R A W A NH A 2R W ('14) [15]
Japan Masters NH 1R A SF SF ('25)
Australian Open A 1R 1R W A F NH QF A W ('17) [39]
Syed Modi International A SF NH A NH A W A 2R W ('23) [51]
Odisha Masters NH A W A W ('23) [52]
Super Series / Tour Finals DNQ W DNQ w/d F SF DNQ W ('15) [24]
New Zealand Open NH A NH A W A NH W ('14) [13]
Russian Open A SF A NH SF ('14)
Year-end ranking 198 83 31 180 25 7 11 7 2 4 4 5 13 26 20 1 [42]
Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Best Ref
Mixed doubles
Tournament BWF Superseries / Grand Prix Best
2011
Japan Open Q1 Q1 ('11)
Canada Open 2R 2R ('11)
Year-end ranking 273 261

Record against selected opponents

Record against Year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 9 July 2024.

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