Former world No. 1 men’s singles shuttler and world champion Kento Momota has announced his retirement from international badminton at the age of 29.
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00:00 Former world number one men's singles shuttler Kento Momota has announced his retirement
00:08 from international badminton at the age of 29.
00:12 Momota told a press conference in Tokyo on Thursday that the Thomas Cup finals to be
00:16 held in Chengdu, China from April 28 to May 5 will be his last outing with the Japanese
00:22 national team.
00:26 Momota won the World Championships and Asian Championships back-to-back in 2018 and 2019.
00:34 He also won a total of 16 World Tour titles, 13 of which in 2018 and 2019.
00:41 He held the Guinness World Record for winning the most badminton men's singles titles in
00:46 a season, with 11 titles in 2019.
00:50 He last played competitively at the Badminton Asia Team Championship in Shah Alam in February
00:55 this year.
00:56 He won all his four matches in the team event, which saw Japan finishing in the third and
01:01 fourth placing.
01:03 Momota was involved in a road accident on his way to the airport after winning the Malaysia
01:07 Masters in 2020.
01:10 Following his return to Japan, he underwent surgery to repair his fractured eye socket,
01:15 but he never fully bounced back or recaptured his form since.
01:19 Momota served a one-year ban by the Japanese Badminton Association and missed the Rio Olympic
01:25 Games in 2016 for gambling.
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