Former number one Momota retires from international badminton at 29

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Tokyo: Two-time world champion Kento Momota said Thursday he is retiring from international badminton aged 29, ending a top-level career that never re...

: Two-time world champion Kento Momota said Thursday he is retiring from international badminton aged 29, ending a top-level career that never recovered from a car crash four years ago.

The former world number one will only feature in domestic competitions in Japan after that and not on badminton’s World Tour. Momota was once badminton’s undisputed king, winning 11 titles in 2019 and losing just six of the 73 matches he played that year. He lost in the opening round at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and fell at the first hurdle in four of the first five tournaments he entered the following year.

 

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