Miyu Takahashi

is a Japanese badminton player who specializes in women's doubles. A member of the Japanese national team, she plays for the BIPROGY badminton team and has reached a career-high women's doubles world ranking of No. 22. Partnering with Mizuki Otake, Takahashi won her first BWF World Tour title at the 2024 Vietnam Open, followed by a Super 300 title at the 2025 German Open. In 2026, Takahashi formed a new partnership with Sumire Nakade, winning four World Tour titles at the Orléans Masters, Baoji China Masters, U.S. Open, and the Taipei Open.

Early life Takahashi was born on 15 May 2002 in Inami, Kako District, Hyōgo Prefecture. Raised in a family heavily involved in badminton, she began playing the sport at age four. Her father, Kōji Takahashi, is a teacher and badminton coach at Yashiro High School, while her mother, Mika Takahashi, coaches at the Volano club and HOPE Junior. Her younger sister, Nana Takahashi, also competed professionally for Toyota Motor corporate team before retiring in 2025. For her secondary education, she relocated to Aomori Prefecture, where she graduated from Aomori Yamada Junior and Senior High School. In late 2018, she formed a partnership with Mizuki Otake. During her third year at Aomori Yamada High School, Takahashi won the girls' doubles event and placed third in singles at the Singapore Youth International. In 2019, she claimed the singles title at the All Japan Junior Championships and, alongside Otake, won the National High School Championships (Inter-High).

2021–2023: International Challenge titles Following her high school graduation, Takahashi joined the BIPROGY (then Nihon Unisys) badminton team in April 2021. In 2022, partnering with Chisato Hoshi in women's doubles, she claimed three international titles: India International (I), India International (II), and Maldives International. They made their World Tour debut at the Vietnam Open, exiting in the first round, and reached the quarterfinals at the Kaohsiung Masters to conclude the year.

2024: First World Tour title Takahashi and Otake claimed their first title of the year at the Northern Marianas Open in July . In September, they made their Super 300-level debut at the Taipei Open, reaching the quarterfinals, and subsequently secured their maiden BWF World Tour title at the Super 100 Vietnam Open. They later made their Super 500 debut at the Japan Masters, losing in the first round to the sixth-seeded pair, Jia Yifan and Zhang Shuxian. By November, the pair reached a new career-high world ranking of No. 58. The pair ended the year as semifinalists at the All Japan Championships, falling to eventual champions Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida.

2025: Super 300 title and world top 30 ranking Takahashi and Otake on the podium as the runners-up at the 2025 Taipei Open. Selected for the 2025 Japan National Team, Takahashi and Otake coached by Mizuki Fujii. They captured their first Super 300 title at the German Open, defeating the first seed Gabriela and Stefani Stoeva. The pair also reached the final of the Super 300 Taipei Open in May. Competing in higher-tier events, they advanced to the second round at both the Japan Open (Super 750) and the China Open (Super 1000) in July, which elevated their world ranking to a career-high No. 22.

2026: Four titles in five finals Takahashi opened the 2026 season partnering with Arisa Igarashi at the Super 500 Indonesia Masters, where they finished as runners-up following a walkover in the final. Takahashi and Nakade then secured two more consecutive titles. They won the Super 100 Baoji China Masters against the Malaysian pair Low Zi Yu and Noraqilah Maisarah, and followed it with a victory at the Super 300 U.S. Open, once again defeating Lin and Yang in the final.

Achievements BWF World Tour (6 titles, 3 runners-up) 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 Tours are 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.

Women's doubles Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result 2024 (I) Indonesia Masters Super 100 Mizuki Otake Jesita Putri Miantoro Febi Setianingrum 15–21, 13–21 Runner-up 2026 Orléans Masters Super 300 Sumire Nakade Lin Chih-chun Yang Chu-yun 22–20, 12–21, 21–18 Winner 2026 Taipei Open Super 300 Sumire Nakade Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan 21–16, 21–18 Winner 2022 (II) India International Chisato Hoshi Pooja Dandu Arathi Sara Sunil 12–21, 21–12, 21–7 Winner 2022 Maldives International Chisato Hoshi Kaho Osawa Kaoru Sugiyama 21–16, 21–15 Winner 2023 Osaka International Mizuki Otake Lee Yu-lim Shin Seung-chan 23–21, 21–13 Runner-up 2024 Northern Marianas Open Mizuki Otake Miki Kanehiro Rui Kiyama 21–4, 21–10 Winner BWF International Challenge tournament

Performance timeline

National team Junior level Team events 2018 World Junior Championships B

Individual competitions Junior level Events 2018 World Junior Championships 2R

Senior level Event 2025 2026 Asian Championships 1R DNQ World Championships DNQ

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

Mizuki Otake Players Gabriela Stoeva & Stefani Stoeva 1 1 0 +1 Li Yijing & Luo Xumin 2 1 1 0

Sumire Nakade Players Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand 1 1 0 +1 Pearly Tan & Thinaah Muralitharan 1 1 0 +1