Before the badminton world championships will be held in Japan for the first time from the 22nd of this month, the Japanese national team has an interview, and Kento Momota, a men's singles player aiming for the third gold medal, says, "I'm going to grab the title desperately." said enthusiastically.
The badminton world championships, which will be held for the first time in Japan, will open on August 22nd at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.
On the 6th, 13 members of the Japanese national team, including two-time gold medalist Momota in the men's singles and Akane Yamaguchi in the women's singles who won the previous tournament, held a press conference in Tokyo. He talked about his enthusiasm for the competition.
Of these, the men's singles player Momota, who missed the previous tournament last year due to a worsening back pain, said, "Recently, the matches have been unsatisfying, but it's been a long time since I've been able to play in front of Japanese fans. So I want to go desperately to grab the title,” he said enthusiastically.
Yamaguchi, the women's singles player who won the gold medal for the first time at the previous tournament, said, "Of course, I want to win the second consecutive victory, and I want to make it a tournament where I can make new discoveries through various plays."
Japan's badminton team finished with one bronze medal at last year's Tokyo Olympics, when they were expected to win multiple medals. The results leave an impression of demodulation.