Miu Hirano

Miu Hirano (平野 美宇, Hirano Miu) (born 14 April 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player.[4] 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.

Miu Hirano
Personal information
Born (2000-04-14) 14 April 2000
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]
ClubNissay Red Elf
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)[3]
Weight45 kg (99 lb)[3]

Hirano has been named to the 2020/21 Olympic team.

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.[5][6] 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.[7]

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.[8]

2015

On 5 July 2015, Miu Hirano and Mima Ito won the Women's Doubles title at the ITTF World Tour Korean Open.[9] 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.[10]

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.[11]

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.[12] On 14 April 2017, she defeated the world ranked No.1 player Ding Ning at the 2017 ITTF Asian Table Tennis Championships.[13] The following day of the tournament, she defeated the world ranked No.2 player Zhu Yuling in the Semifinals [14] 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.[15]

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.[16]

Career records

Statistics correct as of 7 May 2017[17]

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

ResultYear.MonthTournamentScoreOpponent
runner-ups2014.04ITTF World Tour Spanish Open 1-4Li Fen
Winner2016.04ITTF World Tour Polish Open 4-0Yu Mengyu
runner-ups2016.05ITTF World Tour Croatia Open 1-4Hitomi Sato (table tennis)
Winner2016.10World Cup 4-0Cheng I-ching
Winner2017.042017 Asian Table Tennis Championships 3-0Chen Meng

Doubles

Titles 4、runner-ups 4

ResultYear.MonthTournamentPartnerScoreOpponent
Winner2014.03ITTF World Tour German Open Mima Ito3-0Katarzyna Grzybowska/Natalia Partyka
Winner2014.04ITTF World Tour Spanish Open Mima Ito3-2Liu Jia/Iveta Vacenovská
runner-ups2014.06ITTF World Tour Korea Open Mima Ito0-3CHEN Ke/Wang Manyu
Winner2014.12World Tour Grand Finals Mima Ito4-0Katarzyna Grzybowska/Natalia Partyka
runner-ups2015.03ITTF World Tour Spanish Open Mima Ito2-3Ai Fukuhara/WAKAMIYA Misako
Winner2015.07ITTF World Tour Korea Open Mima Ito3-2Hina Hayata/Hitomi Sato (table tennis)
runner-ups2015.102015 Asian Table Tennis Championships Mima Ito0-4KIM Hye Sung/Ri Mi-gyong
runner-ups2015.12World Tour Grand Finals Mima Ito0-4Ding Ning/Zhu Yuling

Performance timelines
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A P Z# PO G F-S SF-B NMS NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (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.

YearWorld ChampionshipsWorld CupWorld Tour Grand FinalsAsian GamesAsian ChampionshipAsian Cup
SDTSTSDTSDTS
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 841826813826
2011 822823822810802810769550498402405388
2012 389396394408313281253255279283276281
2013 28328318218117918014715410311011078
2014 696953493334333345444842
2015 373751362919182017181616
2016 18211919111114141617911
2017 9991187556656
2018 676667

Awards
  • 2016: ITTF Breakthrough Star of the Year[18]

Records

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. "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 Japanese 13-year-olds make history at German Open". Sport Asia. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  6. "13 Year Old Japanese Duo Create History on the ITTF World Tour". Around The Rings. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  7. "Maturity Beyond Years, Miu Hirano and Mima Ito Repeat Magdeburg Success". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  8. "At A Glance: Japanese Teenagers Create History in Bangkok". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  9. "Gold for Miu Hirano and Mima Ito, Youngest Final Ever". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  10. "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.
  11. "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.
  12. "Hirano wins All Japan Championships". 2017-01-22.
  13. "Hurricane Hirano shocks Olympic and World Champion Ding Ning out of Asian Championships". 2017-04-14.
  14. "Hurricane Hirano gale force, blows away Zhu Yuling". 2017-04-15.
  15. "Marvellous Miu and her magical ways". 2017-04-15.
  16. "Hirano ends long medal drought for Japan women". Archived from the original on 2017-06-13. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  17. "HIRANO Miu（JPN）ID：117820". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  18. "Table Tennis: Hirano wins ITTF Breakthrough Star award". Mainichi Shimbun. 2016-12-10. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
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