Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOKYO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - World number one badminton player Kento Momota was discharged from hospital on Friday, his sponsor ...

Badminton world number one Kento Momota (pictured competing in the singles semi-final on December 26, 2020) won the All-Japan championships nearly a year after suffering serious injuries in a car ...

Japan's Momota was once badminton's undisputed king, winning 11 titles in 2019 and losing just six of the 73 matches he played that year. But in January 2020 the vehicle taking him to Kuala Lumpur ...

(Reuters) - Kento Momota feared he would be unable to play badminton again after a road accident in Malaysia left him with serious injuries last year, but having returned to full fitness the world ...

April 18 (Reuters) - Japan's two-time world champion Kento Momota said on Thursday he is retiring from badminton, after the former world number one failed to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Momota won ...

Kento Momota will retire from badminton after the Thomas and Uber Cup this year Two-time world champion Kento Momota has announced that his international career will end with the 2024 Thomas & Uber ...

Kento Momota crashed out in the first round of badminton’s Indonesia Masters today, just the latest early exit for the two-time world champion. Unseeded Momota, whose career has been in freefall since ...

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Yoo Hyo-jeo, a South Korean marketing specialist based in Tokyo, wept with joy when she watched her countryman Heo Kwang-hee knock the world's number one men's singles player ...

Two-time world champion Kento Momota said on Thursday he is retiring from international badminton aged 29, admitting he had never been the same since a serious car crash four years ago. Japan’s Momota ...

The Japanese is the top seed in the men's singles event at the Indonesia Open, which begins tomorrow and concludes on Sunday (November 28). Momota will compete at the BWF Super 1000-level tournament ...