Ippei Kojima (born 1944) is a former Japanese badminton player who won Japanese national titles and major international titles from the mid 1960's to the mid 1970's. Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles or two opposing pairs (doubles who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court The Japanese National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best Badminton players in Japan. His game was marked by exceptional foot speed, great tenacity, and power surprising for a man who stood no more, and perhaps less, than five feet (1. 524 meters) tall. Kojima is the only Japanese player to have won men's singles at the prestigious Danish Open (1970). The Denmark Open, or formerly known as Danish Open, is an annual Badminton tournament held in Denmark and organized by Danmarks Badminton Forbund He also shared the Danish Open men's doubles title, with different partners, in 1968 and 1969[1]. Perhaps the most notable matches of his career were a series of close but losing singles efforts against the iconic Rudy Hartono in Thomas Cup, the All-Englands, and other major venues in 1970 and 1971[2][3]. Rudy Hartono Kurniawan (born August 18, 1949) was an Indonesian Badminton player of Han Chinese descent who won the World Championship The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, is an international Badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the The All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious Badminton tournaments
References
- ^ Herbert Scheele, The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd. , 1971) 152, 153.
- ^ Herbert Scheele, The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd. , 1971) 45.
- ^ "Danish National Championships", Badminton USA, May 1971, 23.
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