It was revealed that Keigo Sonoda and Takeshi Kamura, who participated in the Tokyo Olympics badminton men's doubles, and Hiroyuki Endo intend to retire from Japan at the end of this month.
According to the Nippon Badminton Association, 34-year-old Endo, who is ranked 5th in the world ranking in the men's doubles, and 6th in the world, both 31-year-old Sonoda and Kamura, will be on the 10th. By the time, the representative's notice of decline has been submitted and accepted.
With this, the three will be removed from the Japanese national team at the end of this month, effectively retiring from the national team.
According to the people concerned, all three explained the reason, "I want to break the Tokyo tournament that has advanced to the quarterfinals."
On the other hand, the teams I belong to in Japan will continue to be active as active players.
The representatives of Japan will be the "Sudirman Cup", which will decide the best in the world in the team competition by country and region, which will be held in Finland in Northern Europe from the 26th of this month, and the "Thomas Cup", which will be a team competition by gender in Denmark next month. We are planning to participate in the "Uber Cup", but the challenge is how to rebuild our strength after the two top pairs of men's doubles have declined to represent.