2017–2020
Takahashi participated in the adult World Championships for the first time in 2017, in singles and doubles. [9]
At the 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, she obtained four medals: bronze in singles and doubles, and gold in mixed doubles and team. [10]
In March 2018 she won her biggest individual title when she became champion of the Latin American Table Tennis Championships. [11]
At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, in Buenos Aires, she reached the quarterfinals of the individual tournament, losing only to China's Sun Yingsha, who finished with the gold medal. Thus, Takahashi finished in the top 8. [12]
At the end of 2018, she reached the semifinals of the 2018 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, where she was eliminated by Adriana Diaz, obtaining bronze in singles.She also won gold in the team event. [13]
At the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Takahashi was seeded N° 5 in women's singles. [14] She won four medals at the 2019 Pan American Games: bronze in singles and doubles, and silver in mixed doubles and for the Team. [15]
2021–present
In May 2022, Takahashi entered the top 20 of the ITTF world rankings in women's singles, making her the first Brazilian to achieve this feat. [18]
In July 2022, she reached the quarter-finals of the WTT Star Contender in Budapest, being the only non-Asian to reach the quarter-finals of the tournament. [19]
Bruna Takahashi was twice runner-up at the Pan American Table Tennis Championships in singles, in 2021 and 2023. [20]
She won the bronze medal three times at the WTT Contender in Lima 2022, Tunis 2023 and Rio de Janeiro 2023, reaching the semi-finals of the tournaments. In Tunisia, she was the only non-Asian to reach the semi-final. [21] [22]
At the 2023 Pan American Games, Takahashi reached the final, and against her biggest rival in the Americas, Puerto Rican Adriana Diaz, she opened 3 sets to 2, but ended up taking silver with a score of 3 to 4. She also obtained the silver in doubles, mixed doubles and a bronze in Team. [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]
She reached the round of 16 of the WTT Champions of Xinxiang 2023 and Incheon 2024. [28] [29]
In January 2024, Takahashi obtained one of her greatest individual titles when she won the Pan American Table Tennis Cup. With this, she also guaranteed a place in the Table Tennis World Cup, held in Macau, China, in April. [30]
At the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships, the Brazilian team reached the round of 16 of the tournament for the first time. Although Brazil was eliminated by South Korea in the round of 16, in this match Takahashi defeated Shin Yu-bin, the world number 8, by 3 sets to 2, obtaining one of the biggest victories of her career. [31]
At the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup, held in Macau, China, Takahashi was drawn to play against Joo Cheonhui (world no. 17) and Sarah Hanffou (world no. 86) in group 15. [32] Takahashi beat Sarah Hanffou by 3 sets to 1 and competed to qualify for the round of 16 with Joo Cheonhui, where she needed to win to advance to the stage. The Korean managed to impose her game and came out ahead by 2 sets to 0, qualifying for the round of 16. Takahashi still tied the game at 2-2, however, being eliminated in the group stage, in her first participation in the World Cup. [33]
At the 2024 WTT Contender in Rio de Janeiro, she managed to repeat her 2023 result, reaching the semifinals of a tournament of this size for the 4th time. [34] She also reached the doubles semifinals, with her sister Giulia Takahashi. [35]
2024–2028
At the 2024 China Grand Smash in Beijing, Takahashi became the first Brazilian to reach the round of 16 of this type of tournament. [38] [39]
At the 2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, she was runner-up in singles and mixed doubles. [40] [41]
At the 2025 Table Tennis World Cup, held in Macau, China, she won 2 matches in the group stage, reaching the round of 16 of this tournament for the first time in her career, where she played against world number 14, Bernadette Szőcs, from Romania. Takahashi won the match 4 sets to 0, becoming the first Brazilian woman to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup, where she faced world number 4 Chen Xingtong of China, losing 4 sets to 1, in a disputed match (8-11, 11-6, 11-13, 7-11, 7-11). Takahashi was the only non-Asian to reach the quarter-finals of this tournament. [42] [43] [44]
Shortly after the World Cup, Takahashi reached the world number 16, the best ranking of her career, also becoming the best table tennis player in the Americas at that time. [45] [46]
At the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, in the singles bracket, she won 3 matches and became the first Brazilian woman in history to reach the round of 16 of the World Championship, where she faced Chen Xingtong, repeating the confrontation that occurred the previous month at the World Cup. [47] Takahashi won the first set, and, as in the previous match against the Chinese, she offered great resistance, but was eliminated again by 4 to 1, now with partial scores of 12-10, 7-11, 8-11, 7-11, 8-11. [48] She and Calderano also participated in the mixed doubles, where they were eliminated in the 2nd round by the world's No. 1 pair. [49]
At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana, playing in mixed doubles alongside Calderano, they defeated the world's No. 3 duo, Chun Ting Wong and Hoi Kem Doo, from Hong Kong, and later the German duo Verdonschot/Schreiner and the Hong Kong duo Ng/Yiu to reach the final of the tournament, where they faced the South Korean duo No. 5 in the world and No. 1 seed of the tournament, composed of Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin. The Brazilian duo was defeated by 3 sets to 0, thus finishing in 2nd place, with the silver medal. [50] [51] [52] [53] In singles, she was eliminated in the round of 16 by former world No. 1 Zhu Yuling by a score of 3 sets to 1, after having beaten Chinese Fan Shuhan in the second round by 3 sets to 0. [54]
At the WTT Contender in Buenos Aires, she didn't do well in singles, losing 3-2 in her debut. However, in mixed doubles, she reached the final of a WTT Contender for the first time in her career, and won her first title alongside Hugo Calderano. [55] [56]
Takahashi participated in the European Grand Smash, one of the 4 tournaments equivalent to a tennis Grand Slam on the table tennis circuit, held in Sweden in August, ranked number 19 in the world and 2nd best non-Asian in the world, behind only the Romanian Bernadette Szőcs. In this tournament, she obtained her best results in Grand Smash both in singles and mixed doubles: in singles, she obtained the biggest victory of her career defeating the Japanese world number 6 Miwa Harimoto in the 2nd round and going to the round of 16 to face the Chinese Chen Yi, 10th best in the world, where she played another great game, taking it to the last set but being eliminated by 3 sets to 2. [57] In mixed doubles, together with Calderano, they reached the quarterfinals of a Smash for the first time, and, when facing the Japanese duo seeded No. 4 in the tournament, Sora Matsushima and Satsuki Odo, they started winning 2 sets to 0, but ended up being eliminated 3 to 2, being one set away from reaching the semifinals and subsequently a medal. [58]
At the WTT Champions Macau, a tournament equivalent to a WTA 1000 in the table tennis circuit, She debuted with a win, and in the 2nd round She faced former world number 1 Zhu Yuling, a home athlete, current world number 7, losing 3-0. [59]
At the China Grand Smash, she reached the second round and, having to face Zhu Yuling for the third time this year, did two even sets but was ultimately eliminated. In the mixed doubles, she and Calderano achieved a historic result by defeating the world No. 5 Spanish duo Robles and Xiao and reaching the semifinals, securing a medal, the best result in Brazil's history in mixed doubles. They were the only non-Chinese duo to reach the semifinals of this tournament. [60]
In October 2025, she became fourth-time Pan American Table Tennis Championships champion in mixed doubles, and for the fifth time she was runner-up in singles. [61] [62] After these results, she became the 6th best in the world in mixed doubles, and also became the best singles player in the world outside of Asia. [63] [64] [65]
At the WTT Champions in Montpellier, she won in the first round, and in the round of 16, facing the world number 5, China's Wang Yidi, she came very close to achieving the biggest victory of her career: she opened up a 2-1 set lead, and in the final set, she was winning 8-5, but ended up being eliminated by a narrow margin, 3 sets to 2. [66]
