After the end of the 2023 season of the BWF Year-end Finals, on December 30, 2023 Beijing time. The Badminton All Day Championship has come to an end. Among the five individual competitions, the derby from Japan was also in full swing.
In the men's singles, the two sides will face Japan's former No. 1 seed Kento Momota against Koki Watanabe, who is currently ranked No. 4 in Japan's men's singles rankings. As a result, Momota Kento finally narrowly defeated his opponent with a score of 2:1, and finally won the men's singles championship of the All-Japan Championship for the sixth time in his career, and Momota Kento also announced his return as the king. Kento Momota has won two titles this season, and has recovered strongly after almost missing most of the season at the Korea Masters, and at the end of the season, he has beaten the world's top players in a row to make his performance shine, although he is gradually moving away from next year's Paris Olympics, and now in the Paris Olympics, it is difficult to catch up with Japan's top two men's singles players, Nara Mitsuki, Gongdai and Nishimoto Kenta. However, Momota Kento, who is gradually recovering, is also looking forward to catching the last train to the Paris Olympics. He is also looking forward to continuing to shine in next year's competitions. This title means a lot to Momota and he has completed his domestic title defense.
In the semifinals, there was originally a close matchup with Kodai Naraoka, but unfortunately the opponent's retirement also fulfilled Kento Momota. If there is a real encounter in the semi-finals, then Momota will most likely not be able to advance to the final. And the young player Naraoka Kodai after zero is also very good at being a man and a god assist, so that the monstrous, dangerous fight finally won the championship, and in the women's singles, the player who was originally the most likely to win the championship is, Aoyuan hopes that the result, in the competition with the opponent, 1:1 situation, in the end, due to his leg injury, he had to withdraw, the battle for the decisive battle. In the end, Nozomi Okuhara won the runner-up in this all-day championship. This season's games continue to struggle with injuries.
In the absence of many famous players in the men's doubles, Koga Teru and Saito Taichi also seized the great opportunity of this tournament and finally easily won the men's doubles championship. These two players have also performed very well in the men's doubles this season. Reina Miyaura and Tatsuko Sakuramoto won the women's doubles title at the All-Day Championships. Yamashita Miyahei and Yutani Naryu won the mixed doubles championship in this competition. In this way, after the tournament is over, the Japanese team will have a week off from the upcoming tournament to prepare for the Malaysia Open, the opening tournament of 2024.