Ayato Endo

is a Japanese badminton player who specializes in men's doubles. He is a member of the NTT East badminton team and has a long-standing partnership with Yuta Takei. With Takei, Endo won his first BWF World Tour title at the 2022 Canada Open. In 2022 while still a university student, the pair also secured three titles on the BWF International Challenge/Series circuit. Endo and Takei achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 25 on 16 May 2023.

Career Junior career Ayato Endo began playing badminton in the second grade of elementary school, joining a local junior team in Tokyo. He attended Saitama Sakae Junior and Senior High School, having begun his partnership with Yuta Takei in the fourth grade of elementary school. During their junior career, Endo and Takei won the national title at the Junior High School Badminton Tournament. In 2018, they were the runners-up in doubles at both the National High School Championships (Inter-High) and the National High School Selection tournament. At the 2021 All Japan Championships, he and Takei earned a third-place finish in men's doubles.

In 2022, while still a university student, Endo was selected for the Japanese B national team and began competing more widely on the international circuit. That year, Endo and Takei secured four international titles: their first BWF World Tour title at the Super 100 Canada Open, and three BWF International Challenge/Series tournaments at the Santo Domingo Open, Mongolia International, and Irish Open. In their first year as professionals, Endo and Takei competed regularly on the World Tour, participating in top-tier events including three Super 1000 tournaments: the Indonesia Open, China Open, and Japan Open. That year, they also made their Asian Championships debut, reaching the second round.

Achievements BWF World Tour (1 title) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.

Men's doubles Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2022 Canada Open Super 100 Yuta Takei Takuto Inoue Kenya Mitsuhashi 21–15, 21–8 Winner

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 1 runner-up) Men's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2022 Santo Domingo Open Yuta Takei Osleni Guerrero Leodannis Martínez 21–13, 21–9 Winner 2022 Mongolia International Yuta Takei Takuto Inoue Kenya Mitsuhashi 21–14, 12–21, 21–19 Winner 2022 Norwegian International Yuta Takei Chen Zhi-ray Lu Chen 19–21, 19–21 Runner-up 2022 Irish Open Yuta Takei Rasmus Kjær Frederik Søgaard 21–18, 21–12 Winner

BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament

Record against selected opponents Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 23 August 2026.

Yuta Takei

Players Liang Weikeng & Wang Chang 2 0 2 –2 Lee Yang & Wang Chi-lin 1 0 1 –1 Aaron Chia & Soh Wooi Yik 1 1 0 +1

Players Goh Sze Fei & Nur Izzuddin 1 0 1 –1 Ong Yew Sin & Teo Ee Yi 2 1 1 0 Kang Min-hyuk & Seo Seung-jae 1 1 0 +1