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Here are the players who earned a ticket to the national tournament!

	Boys A Group Winner Yoshito SATO What is your goal at the Nationals? I want to value every day of training, then show the results of my practice to reach the last 8. Who is your favourite badminton player? Viktor AXELSEN What is your dream? To become a badminton player and get a medal.

	Girls A Group Winner Miyuu ENOMOTO What is your goal at the Nationals? Goal: I want to reach the last 4. Comment: I am looking forward to seeing what the other players are like. Who is your favourite badminton player? Akane YAMAGUCHI, Misaki MATSUTOMO, Aya OHORI, Ayaka TAKAHASHI What is your dream? I want to perform all over the world like players such as OHORI, YAMAGUCHI and OKUHARA.

	Boys B Group Winner Manaki NANBA What is your goal at the Nationals? To reach the last 8. Who is your favourite badminton player? Yuta WATANABE, Yu IGARASHI What is your dream? To become a national A team player.

	Girls B Group Winner Koko TAKAHASHI What is your goal at the Nationals? First of all I want to enter the tournament in my best condition, to give the best possible performance. I will train for the final round so that I can definitely reach the upper tournament. Who is your favourite badminton player? Akane YAMAGUCHI What is your dream? I want to defend my top position in the prefecture, progress to a famous school and become a corporate team player.

Girls B Group Winner

Koko TAKAHASHI

What is your goal at the Nationals?: First of all I want to enter the tournament in my best condition, to give the best possible performance.
I will train for the final round so that I can definitely reach the upper tournament.
Who is your favourite badminton player?: Akane YAMAGUCHI
What is your dream?: I want to defend my top position in the prefecture, progress to a famous school and become a corporate team player.

	Boys C Group Winner Kenshi NAKANO What is your goal at the Nationals? My goal is to reach the last 4. I will practice to become better and win. Who is your favourite badminton player? Kento MOMOTA What is your dream? To become the world’s number 1 player.

	Girls C Group Winner Rua KUROSAWA What is your goal at the Nationals? I want to get through the qualifying round. Who is your favourite badminton player? Akane YAMAGUCHI What is your dream? I want to become a primary school teacher and teach badminton to my students.

Check out the exciting matches between elementary school students!

From the Yamagata Prefecture School Children Badminton Federation

Toshiyuki ABE (Yamagata Prefecture School Children Badminton Federation Chairman)

I really appreciated the support from the employees of Daihatsu. The venue has been improved and I think the hunger of the players was greater than previous years.
The atmosphere at the venue was better as well thanks to signboards and banners for the stage. Great memories were created by writing messages of support and taking photos at the representative player panels.
As this year was our first time, the meetings were difficult in some aspects because we couldn’t imagine the end result, but we should be able to respond without any problems next year by making use of this experience.

We received messages of support to the Japanese national players from the players and spectators!

YAMAGATA DAIHATSU supported the tournament together with locals from the region!

From YAMAGATA DAIHATSU

This was our first time to sponsor this tournament, so we got to be spectators at the badminton matches. The rallies in the final were especially watchable. We were very impressed by this excellent match. Also, we send our thanks to the people from the federation for their extensive assistance, such as helping with the free daily inspections and setting up photo booths inside the match venue during rest periods. To all the representative players, please play some excellent games at the national tournament. All of us at Yamagata Daihatsu will be cheering for you too!!