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On August 22, at the 2024 Japan Badminton Open, Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino won 21-11, 21-15 against Taipei’s Yeh Hong-wei and Chien Yu-chin, advancing to the quarterfinals and coming closer to their goal of winning the championship.
This week’s Japan Open marks the “Final Dance” for Watanabe and Higashino. The pair recently announced that they will part ways after this tournament. Following the Japan Open, Watanabe will form a new mixed doubles pair with 18-year-old Taguchi Masaki, while Higashino will shift to women’s doubles, teaming up with 29-year-old Sakuramoto Ayako.
今天夺冠后，渡边表示：“日本公开赛是我们一起参加的最后一场比赛。观众人数一天天在增加，欢呼声也越来越大。有了大家的支持，我会变得更强。”
The pair hope to end their partnership with a gold medal. Yuta Watanabe expressed that, although he is physically exhausted, he wants to persevere until the end and win the final match.
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