Hiroe Yuki

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Hiroe Yuki (湯木 博恵, Yuki Hiroe^?), now Hiroe Niinuma (新沼 博恵, Niinuma Hiroe^?), is a retired female badminton player of Japan who won numerous major international titles from the late 1960's to the late 1970's. She was perhaps the most notable of a cadre of fine Japanese players who helped Japan to win all but one of the six Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions held between 1966 and 1981^[1]. With the possible exception of Etsuko Toganoo she is Japan's most successful ever player at the prestigious All-England Championships winning four singles titles (1969, 1974, 1975, 1977) and one doubles title (1971) there^[2]. Yuki overcame an Achilles tendon rupture early in her career to compile her impressive record^[3]. She won the bronze medal at the 1977 IBF World Championships in women's singles. In 2002 she was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame.

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