Etsuko Toganoo

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Etsuko Toganoo (栂野尾 悦子 Toganoo Etsuko?) (formerly Etsuko Takenaka) is a retired female badminton player of Japan noted for her consistency and impassive demeanor. Along with her contemporaries Hiroe Yuki (Niinuma) and Noriko Nakayama (Takagi), she is one of three Japanese women to have won both singles (1970) and doubles (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977) at the prestigious All-England Championships[1]. These three helped Japan to dominate Uber Cup (women's world team) competition from the mid 1960's to the early 1980's [2]. In 1977 Mrs. Toganoo won women's doubles with Emiko Ueno at the first IBF World Championships[3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 106, 108.
  2. ^ Davis, 133-136.
  3. ^ Davis, 109.
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