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Bruna Takahashi

Brazilian table tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bruna Takahashi
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Bruna Yumi Takahashi (born 19 July 2000) is a Brazilian table tennis player.[1] She represented Brazil at the Summer Olympics three times since 2016. Ranked No. 19, she is currently the second non-Asian player in the ITTF/WTT singles world ranking, after Romania's Bernadette Szőcs and the best from the Americas. She has a sister, Giulia, who also plays table tennis at professional level.

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2013–2016

In October 2013, she won the U13 Latin American Championship title in singles.[5]

On November 1, 2015, she became a cadet World Champion, when she won the World Challenge title in the cadet category, in Sharm El-Shwikh, Egypt.[6]

Bruna Takahashi won bronze in singles and gold in team at the 2016 Latin American Table Tennis Championships.[7]

2016 Summer Olympics

At 15 years old, Takahashi was the youngest athlete on Team Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics. As part of the Brazilian team, her only match was with the then current Olympic champion, Chinese Li Xiaoxia.[8][2]

2017–2020

She participated in the adult World Championships for the first time in 2017, in singles and doubles.[9]

At the 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, she obtained four medals: bronze in singles and doubles, and gold in mixed doubles and team. [10]

In March 2018 she won her biggest individual title when she became champion of the Latin American Table Tennis Championships.[11]

At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, in Buenos Aires, she reached the quarterfinals of the individual tournament, losing only to China's Sun Yingsha, who finished with the gold medal. Thus, Takahashi finished in the top 8.[12]

At the end of 2018, she reached the semifinals of the 2018 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, where she was eliminated by Adriana Diaz, obtaining bronze in singles.She also won gold in the team event.[13]

At the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Takahashi was seeded N° 5 in women's singles.[14] She won four medals at the 2019 Pan American Games: bronze in singles and doubles, and silver in mixed doubles and for the Team.[15]

2020 Summer Olympics

She participated at the 2020 Summer Olympics, both in the individual and team events.[16][17]

2021–present

In May 2022, Takahashi entered the top 20 of the ITTF world rankings in women's singles, making her the first Brazilian to achieve this feat.[18]

In July 2022, she reached the quarter-finals of the WTT Star Contender in Budapest, being the only non-Asian to reach the quarter-finals of the tournament.[19]

Bruna Takahashi was twice runner-up at the Pan American Table Tennis Championships in singles, in 2021 and 2023.[20]

She won the bronze medal three times at the WTT Contender in Lima 2022, Tunis 2023 and Rio de Janeiro 2023, reaching the semi-finals of the tournaments. In Tunisia, she was the only non-Asian to reach the semi-final.[21][22]

At the 2023 Pan American Games, Takahashi reached the final, and against her biggest rival in the Americas, Puerto Rican Adriana Diaz, she opened 3 sets to 2, but ended up taking silver with a score of 3 to 4. She also obtained the silver in doubles, mixed doubles and a bronze in Team.[23][24][25][26][27]

She reached the round of 16 of the WTT Champions of Xinxiang 2023 and Incheon 2024.[28][29]

In January 2024, Takahashi obtained one of her greatest individual titles when she won the Pan American Table Tennis Cup. With this, she also guaranteed a place in the Table Tennis World Cup, held in Macau, China, in April.[30]

At the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships, the Brazilian team reached the round of 16 of the tournament for the first time. Although Brazil was eliminated by South Korea in the round of 16, in this match Takahashi defeated Shin Yu-bin, the world number 8, by 3 sets to 2, obtaining one of the biggest victories of her career.[31]

At the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup, held in Macau, China, Takahashi was drawn to play against Joo Cheonhui (world no. 17) and Sarah Hanffou (world no. 86) in group 15.[32] Takahashi beat Sarah Hanffou by 3 sets to 1 and competed to qualify for the round of 16 with Joo Cheonhui, where she needed to win to advance to the stage. The Korean managed to impose her game and came out ahead by 2 sets to 0, qualifying for the round of 16. Takahashi still tied the game at 2-2, however, being eliminated in the group stage, in her first participation in the World Cup.[33]

At the 2024 WTT Contender in Rio de Janeiro, she managed to repeat her 2023 result, reaching the semifinals of a tournament of this size for the 4th time.[34] She also reached the doubles semifinals, with her sister Giulia Takahashi.[35]

2024 Summer Olympics

At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she and Vitor Ishiy were eliminated in the mixed doubles debut by 4 sets to 2. In the singles draw, she won her first match at the Olympics, but was eliminated in the second round by Lily Zhang by 4 sets to 2.[36][37]

2024–2028

At the 2024 China Grand Smash in Beijing, Takahashi became the first Brazilian to reach the round of 16 of this type of tournament.[38][39]

At the 2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, she was runner-up in singles and mixed doubles.[40][41]

At the 2025 Table Tennis World Cup, held in Macau, China, she won 2 matches in the group stage, reaching the round of 16 of this tournament for the first time in her career, where she played against world number 14, Bernadette Szőcs, from Romania. Takahashi won the match 4 sets to 0, becoming the first Brazilian woman to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup, where she faced world number 4 Chen Xingtong of China, losing 4 sets to 1, in a disputed match (8-11, 11-6, 11-13, 7-11, 7-11). Takahashi was the only non-Asian to reach the quarter-finals of this tournament. [42][43][44]

Shortly after the World Cup, Takahashi reached the world number 16, the best ranking of her career, also becoming the best table tennis player in the Americas at that time. [45][46]

At the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, in the singles bracket, she won 3 matches and became the first Brazilian woman in history to reach the round of 16 of the World Championship, where she faced Chen Xingtong, repeating the confrontation that occurred the previous month at the World Cup.[47] Takahashi won the first set, and, as in the previous match against the Chinese, she offered great resistance, but was eliminated again by 4 to 1, now with partial scores of 12-10, 7-11, 8-11, 7-11, 8-11.[48] She and Calderano also participated in the mixed doubles, where they were eliminated in the 2nd round by the world's No. 1 pair.[49]

At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana, playing in mixed doubles alongside Calderano, they defeated the world's No. 3 duo, Chun Ting Wong and Hoi Kem Doo, from Hong Kong, and later the German duo Verdonschot/Schreiner and the Hong Kong duo Ng/Yiu to reach the final of the tournament, where they faced the South Korean duo No. 5 in the world and No. 1 seed of the tournament, composed of Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin. The Brazilian duo was defeated by 3 sets to 0, thus finishing in 2nd place, with the silver medal.[50][51][52][53] In singles, she was eliminated in the round of 16 by former world No. 1 Zhu Yuling by a score of 3 sets to 1, after having beaten Chinese Fan Shuhan in the second round by 3 sets to 0.[54]

At the WTT Contender in Buenos Aires, she didn't do well in singles, losing 3-2 in her debut. However, in mixed doubles, she reached the final of a WTT Contender for the first time in her career, and won her first title alongside Hugo Calderano.[55][56]

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Best results by type of tournament

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Singles

Her best ranking in singles was No. 16 in the world, obtained on April 22, 2025.[57]

Doubles

Mixed doubles

In August 2025, the Takahashi/Calderano duo was ranked 10th in the world, this being the best ranking obtained by Takahashi in this modality, despite having already made partnerships with other players.[62]

Takahashi's best individual results in this modality:

Team

The Brazilian team was the 10th best in the world in March 2024, when it entered the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time.[71][72]

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