18-year-old Japanese rising star Yuka Miyazaki defeated Chinese Taipei women's player Chen Suyu 21:15, 21:10 in the top 16 of the Super 300 Series 2025 Chinese Taipei Open Badminton Championships on the 8th, advancing to the top 8 of the women's singles, continuing to move towards the goal of winning the first championship in Taipei in her career.
Yuka Miyazaki has a lot of dolls on her ball bag
After winning the 2022 World Junior Championships, Miyazaki broke out of the cocoon on tour last year, finishing runner-up at the Super 1000 Series China Open, and this year reaching the semi-finals at the Super 750 Series India Open, and is currently ranked 8th in the world, this time as the top seed in Taipei.
It is worth mentioning that Yuka Miyazaki, ranked 8th in the world, currently has a minimum score of 4,900 points in the 10 races of the year, and if she can win the Taipei Championship in one fell swoop, the world ranking is expected to rise to 6th, once again rewriting her personal best.
Japan's Yuka Miyazaki (pictured) defeated Chinese Taipei's Chen Suyu
The most special thing about Yuka Miyazaki is that there are a lot of dolls on the ball bag, she revealed that these dolls have different meanings for herself, some are for her family, and some are dolls with good friends, hoping to bring everyone's blessings to strive for good results in international competitions.
Yuka Miyazaki has a lot of dolls on her ball bag.
Yuka Miyazaki, who came to Taiwan for the first time, likes Taiwanese bean curd and nougat the most, and hopes to taste delicious food in Taiwan if she has time. Miyazaki Yuka once mentioned in an interview that her idol is the former Chinese Taipei first sister Tai Tzu Ying, she said that she has watched Xiao Dai play since elementary school, "Although we play in different styles, I have always admired her style of play, and I hope to become a handsome player like her in the future." However, Miyazaki Yuka did not compete with Dai Tzuying, and she has not yet spoken to her idol.