Giulia Takahashi

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Giulia Takahashi
Born (2005-04-02) 2 April 2005 (age 20)
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Highest ranking73 (10 Jun 2025) [1]
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Pan American Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Santiago Doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 Santiago Team
Pan American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Santiago Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 San Salvador Doubles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 San Salvador Mixed doubles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Havana Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 HavanaDoubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2024 San SalvadorSingles

Giulia Yuri Takahashi (born 2 April 2005) is a Brazilian table tennis player. [2] [3] [4] She represented Brazil at the Summer Olympics in 2024. Her sister Bruna Takahashi also plays table tennis. [5] [6]

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Career

At the age of 16, she participated as a reserve for the Brazilian women's table tennis team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [7]

In August 2023, Giulia achieved a great result at the WTT Contender in Rio de Janeiro. Playing mixed doubles together with Guilherme Teodoro, they reached the semifinals of the competition, winning the bronze medal. [8]

In September 2023, Giulia participated in the 2023 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, held in Havana, Cuba. Giulia and her sister Bruna won bronze in doubles. In addition, the Brazilian team won the silver medal, as well as qualifying for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. [9] [10] [11]

At the 2023 Pan American Games, held in October and November in Santiago, Chile, Giulia Takahashi participated in the doubles event, along with her sister, where they reached the final, losing 4 sets to 3 and winning the silver medal. This was Brazil's best result at the Pan American Games in the women's doubles table tennis event. Giulia also won a bronze medal for the Brazilian team. [12] [13]

In November 2023, Giulia entered the world's top 100 in singles for the first time. [14]

In February 2024, she reached the world's No. 77 in singles. [15] [16]

At the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships, the Brazilian team reached the round of 16 of the tournament for the first time, where they were eliminated by South Korea by 3 games to 1. [17]

In March 2024, Giulia participated in the Singapore Smash, playing doubles with her sister Bruna, where they were eliminated in the 1st round. [18]

At the 2024 WTT Contender in Rio de Janeiro, she reached the doubles semifinals, with her sister Bruna Takahashi. [19]

At the 2024 Olympic Games, she participated in the singles bracket, facing world champion and Olympic runner-up Sun Yingsha in the 1st round, being eliminated in straight sets. [20]

Giulia, playing with Henrique Noguti, was the mixed doubles champion at the WTT Contender in Lima, in August 2024. [21]

At the 2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, she was the bronze medalist in singles, and won gold in doubles and mixed doubles. [22] [23]

Giulia and Guilherme Teodoro reached the semifinals at the WTT Contender in Tunis, Tunisia. In May 2025, they became the 14th best mixed doubles team in the world in the ITTF rankings. [24] [25]

At the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, she achieved her first World Championship victory against Nigerian Hope Udoaka. In the second round, she would face the best player in Africa at the moment, Egyptian Hana Goda, number 25 in the world, where she started the game by winning the first set, but was later eliminated 4-1. [26] [27] In the mixed doubles bracket, she and Guilherme Teodoro defeated the Argentine duo Francisco Sanchi and Ana Codina in the 1st round by 3 sets to 1, and in the 2nd round the duo formed by the Spaniard Daniel Barboza and the Ukrainian Veronika Matiunina by 3 sets to 2, reaching the round of 16, where they would face the tournament's 3rd seed, Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem, from Taipei. [28] [29]

Titles

2023 Pan American Games - Bronze medal (team)

Wtt Contender Lima 2024 - Winner (Mixed Doubles with Henrique Noguti)

2024 Pan American Games - Bronze medal (Singles)

2024 Pan American Games - Gold medal (Mixed Doubles with Guilherme Teodoro)

2024 Pan American Games - Gold medal (Doubles with Laura Watanabe)

References

  1. "Women's Singles 2025 Week #24" . Retrieved 11 June 2025.
  2. "Giulia TAKAHASHI".
  3. "Takahashi Giulia: video, ranking". tabletennis.guide. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  4. "Giulia TAKAHASHI". Cornilleau, more than table tennis. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  5. "Bruna TAKAHASHI".
  6. "Bruna Takahashi results, fixtures, Edem Offiong v Takahashi Bruna live | Flashscore.com / Table tennis". www.flashscore.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  7. Aos 16 anos, Giulia Takahashi coroa dedicação desde muito nova com participação como reserva da Seleção em Tóquio
  8. No Top 4! Nas semifinais, Guilherme Teodoro e Giulia Takahashi se despedem do WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro após revés contra dupla oito do mundo
  9. Tênis de mesa: equipes masculina e feminina do Brasil garantem classificação aos Jogos Olímpicos
  10. Tênis de mesa: equipes masculina e feminina garantem vaga em Paris|data=2023-09-18
  11. Calderano é tetracampeão do Pan de Tênis de Mesa, Bruna Takahashi leva duas pratas e um bronze
  12. Irmãs Takahashi faturam prata histórica no tênis de mesa
  13. Primeira atleta paralímpica nos Jogos Pan-Americanos é bronze no tênis de mesa
  14. Feito inédito! Giulia Takahashi sobe dez posições e se junta a Bruna Takahashi no Top 100 do ranking mundial feminino
  15. Ranking de simples de Giulia Takahashi
  16. Giulia e Jouti são elimnados no Smash de Singapura
  17. Brasil cai para a Coreia e encerra campanha histórica no Mundial
  18. Hugo Calderano é superado no Smash de Singapura e dá adeus ao torneio; Bruna e Giulia Takahashi também caem
  19. Brasil coloca duas duplas nas semifinais do WTT Contender Rio
  20. Olimpíadas: Giulia Takahashi sucumbe à número 1 do mundo no tênis de mesa feminino
  21. Giulia Takahashi and Henrique Noguti win the mixed doubles title at the WTT Contender Lima
  22. Bruna Takahashi loses to Adriana Diaz and wins silver at the Pan American Table Tennis Championships; Giulia Takahashi and Laura Watanabe win in the women's doubles
  23. Giulia Takahashi and Guilherme Teodoro win a 'family' final against Bruna Takahashi and Hugo Calderano at the 2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championships
  24. Giulia Takahashi and Guilherme Teodoro take bronze at WTT Contender Tunis
  25. ITTF TABLE TENNIS WORLD RANKING Mixed Doubles Pairs 2025 Week 20 May 13th
  26. Brazilian athletes win three victories on the first day of games at the Table Tennis World Championship, in Qatar
  27. Giulia Takahashi and Guilherme Teodoro put Brazil in the round of 16 of the mixed doubles at the World Table Tennis Championship
  28. Brazilian athletes win three victories on the first day of games at the Table Tennis World Championships in Qatar
  29. Hugo Calderano and Bruna Takahashi fall, but Gui Teodoro and Giulia Takahashi advance in the mixed at the 2025 Table Tennis World Championships