Kenta Matsudaira
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 2013 World Table Tennis Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |
 Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
April 11, 1991[1] Nanao-shi, Ishikawa, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing style | Right-handed, shakehand grip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equipment(s) | Timo Boll ALC, Tenergy 05 FH, Tenergy 05 BH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 15 (December 2013)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb; 9.6 st)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kenta Matsudaira (松平 健太 Matsudaira Kenta) (born 11 April 1991) is a Japanese table tennis player. Winner of 2006 World Junior Championships in boys' singles.[4] He was ranked as the world number one junior player in 2008.[5] Kenta has supposedly one of the world's best serves. He serves either a regular tomahawk service or a backhand tomahawk service.[6]
Kenta became well known after a near upset vs Olympic champion Ma Lin in the 2009 World Table Tennis Championships using his virtually unseen before, advanced tomahawk serves, compact speed technique, and dynamic backhand control. Kenta won two straight games from a 1-3 deficit and held the lead at 4-1 in the seventh. (Kenta lost the set 11-9.)[7]
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- ↑ "ITTF players' profiles". ITTF. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ↑ "ITTF world ranking". International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Athlete's Profile". 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "ITTF statistics". ITTF. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ↑ "ITTF under 18 world ranking". ITTF. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ↑ Marshall, Ian. "Gaining The Plaudits". ITTF. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ↑ Marshall, Ian (2 May 2009). "Olympic Champion Stretched to the Limit as Japanese Heroes Bid Farewell". ITTF. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
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