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Kenichi Hayakawa
Kenichi Hayakawa at the 2013 French Super Series.
Personal information
Country	Japan
Born	(1986-04-05) 5 April 1986 (age 38) Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Retired	31 March 2017
Handedness	Right
Men's & mixed doubles
Career record	MD, 256 wins, 151 losses (62.90%) XD, 90 wins, 96 losses (48.39%)
Highest ranking	2 (MD with Hiroyuki Endo, 19 June 2014) 12 (XD with Misaki Matsutomo, 19 June 2014)
Medal record Men's badminton Representing  Japan World Championships 2015 Jakarta Men's doubles Sudirman Cup 2015 Dongguan Mixed team Thomas Cup 2014 New Delhi Men's team 2010 Kuala Lumpur Men's team 2012 Wuhan Men's team Asian Championships 2012 Qingdao Men's doubles 2013 Taipei Men's doubles 2015 Wuhan Mixed doubles Asia Team Championships 2016 Hyderabad Men's team East Asian Games 2009 Hong Kong Men's team
BWF profile

Kenichi Hayakawa (早川 賢一, Hayakawa Ken'ichi, born 5 April 1986) is a retired Japanese badminton player. He has been a runner-up of the All England three times (2013, 2014 and 2016) along with his partner, Hiroyuki Endo. He competed at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.

Career

Hayakawa won the first point in the 2014 Thomas Cup finals with Hiroyuki Endo beating 2004 World Junior Champions Hoon Thien How and Tan Boon Heong and lead the momentum for the Japanese team to claim the Thomas Cup for the first time, being the fourth nation to win Thomas cup after Indonesia, China and Malaysia.

On 31 March 2017, Hayakawa retired as a badminton player. He was appointed as the Japan national badminton team coach in 2017. Hayakawa stepped down as the national team coach in 2023 and became the men's team manager for BIPROGY.

Achievements

BWF World Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia	Hiroyuki Endo	Liu Xiaolong Qiu Zihan	16–21, 23–21, 20–22	Bronze

Asian Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	Qingdao Sports Centre Conson Stadium, Qingdao, China	Hiroyuki Endo	Kim Gi-jung Kim Sa-rang	12–21, 16–21	Silver
2013	Taipei Arena, Taipei, Taiwan	Hiroyuki Endo	Kim Gi-jung Kim Sa-rang	21–19, 13–21, 14–21	Bronze

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium, Wuhan, China	Misaki Matsutomo	Lee Chun Hei Chau Hoi Wah	17–21, 19–21	Bronze

BWF Superseries (7 runners-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	China Masters	Hiroyuki Endo	Chai Biao Zhang Nan	18–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2012	World Superseries Finals	Hiroyuki Endo	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	17–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2013	All England Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Liu Xiaolong Qiu Zihan	11–21, 9–21	Runner-up
2013	China Masters	Hiroyuki Endo	Ko Sung-hyun Lee Yong-dae	23–25, 19–21	Runner-up
2014	All England Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	19–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2014	French Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	21–18, 9–21, 7–21	Runner-up
2016	All England Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov	23–21, 18–21, 16–21	Runner-up

  BWF Superseries Finals tournament

  BWF Superseries Premier tournament

  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (3 titles, 5 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	German Open	Kenta Kazuno	Lee Yong-dae Shin Baek-cheol	13–21, 16–21	Runner-up
2010	Australian Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Kang Woo-kyum Park Tae-sang	21–15, 21–16	Winner
2011	Australian Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Naoki Kawamae Shoji Sato	21–17, 21–18	Winner
2011	Russian Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Naoki Kawamae Shoji Sato	18–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2011	Indonesia Grand Prix Gold	Hiroyuki Endo	Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano	13–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2012	U.S. Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Yoshiteru Hirobe Kenta Kazuno	21–15, 21–10	Winner
2014	German Open	Hiroyuki Endo	Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	19–21, 21–14, 14–21	Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	U.S. Open	Misaki Matsutomo	Tony Gunawan Vita Marissa	13–21, 10–21	Runner-up

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles)

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Banuinvest International	Kenta Kazuno	Julian Hristov Konstantin Dobrev	21–10, 21–13	Winner
2007	Victorian International	Kenta Kazuno	Chad Whitehead Mark Prior	21–7, 21–15	Winner

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2010	Osaka International	Shizuka Matsuo	Hirokatsu Hashimoto Mizuki Fujii	21–14, 21–11	Winner

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

References

1. ^ "Announcement of the retirement of players Kenichi Hayakawa and Ryota Taohata" (in Japanese). BIPROGY. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
2. "Profile: Hayakawa Kenichi". Incheon 2014 official website. Archived from the original on 3 October 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
3. "代表選手 2017年" (in Japanese). Nippon Badminton Association. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
4. "Team/Staff Profile: Kenichi Hayakawa" (in Japanese). BIPROGY. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
5. "BWF Launches Super Series". Badminton Australia. 15 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007.
6. "Yonex All England Elevated To BWF Premier Super Series Event". IBadmintonstore. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.

External links

• Kenichi Hayakawa at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com
• Kenichi Hayakawa at BWFBadminton.com
• Kenichi Hayakawa at Olympics.com
• Kenichi Hayakawa at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

• 1986 births
• Living people
• Sportspeople from Shiga Prefecture
• Japanese male badminton players
• Badminton players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic badminton players for Japan
• Badminton players at the 2010 Asian Games
• Badminton players at the 2014 Asian Games
• Asian Games competitors for Japan
• Badminton coaches
• 21st-century Japanese sportsmen