![On December 3, the Nippon Badminton Association announced the list of members of its national team for 2019. Photo: Yves Lacroix / Badmintonphoto They will divide the members into A […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20181107-1051-WorldJuniorTeamChampionships2018_DSC6765.jpg "Japan announces 2019 National Team")
On December 3, the Nippon Badminton Association announced the list of members of its national team for 2019.
Photo: Yves Lacroix / Badmintonphoto
They will divide the members into A and B teams and announce them on December 11. The B team, or back-up, players are typically not sent to tournaments above the Grand Prix Gold, or Super 300, level. However, in recent years, certain B team members have been compelled by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to compete in the bigger tournaments by virtue of having reached the world’s top 10 (15 for singles) and being counted among the BWF’s Top Committed Player category.
| Men’s singles | Women’s singles |
| Kento Momota | Akane Yamaguchi |
| Kenta Nishimoto | Nozomi Okuhara |
| Kanta Tsuneyama | Sayaka Takahashi |
| Kazumasa Sakai | Aya Ohori |
| Koki Watanabe | Saena Kawakami |
| Hashiru Shimono | Minatsu Mitani |
| Yu Igarashi | Ayumi Mine |
| Takuma Obayashi | Mako Urushizaki |
| Shota Omoto | Asuka Takahashi |
| Minoru Koga | Hirari Mizui |
| Men’s doubles | Women’s doubles |
| Keigo Sonoda / Takeshi Kamura | Yuki Fukushima / Sayaka Hirota |
| Hiroyuki Endo / Yuta Watanabe | Ayaka Takahashi / Misaki Matsutomo |
| Takuto Inoue / Yuki Kaneko | Wakana Nagahara / Mayu Matsumoto |
| Takuro Hoki / Yugo Kobayashi | Koharu Yonemoto / Shiho Tanaka |
| Akira Koga / Taichi Saito | Ayako Sakuramoto / Yukiko Takahata |
| Hiroki Okamura / Masayuki Onodera | Chiharu Shida / Nami Matsuyama |
| Mahiro Kaneko / Yunosuke Kubota | Misato Aratama / Akane Watanabe |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Yuta Watanabe / Arisa Higashino | |
| Kohei Gondo / Ayane Kurihara | |
| Tadayuki Urai / Rena Miyaura | |
| Kyohei Yamashita / Naru Shinoya | |
| Hiroki Midorikawa / Natsu Saito | |
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