Giulia Takahashi
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| Born | 2 April 2005 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 73 (10 Jun 2025)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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
- ^ "Women's Singles 2025 Week #24". Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ^ "Giulia TAKAHASHI".
- ^ "Takahashi Giulia: video, ranking". tabletennis.guide. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Giulia TAKAHASHI". Cornilleau, more than table tennis. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Bruna TAKAHASHI".
- ^ "Bruna Takahashi results, fixtures, Edem Offiong v Takahashi Bruna live | Flashscore.com / Table tennis". www.flashscore.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ Aos 16 anos, Giulia Takahashi coroa dedicação desde muito nova com participação como reserva da Seleção em Tóquio
- ^ 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
- ^ Tênis de mesa: equipes masculina e feminina do Brasil garantem classificação aos Jogos Olímpicos
- ^ Tênis de mesa: equipes masculina e feminina garantem vaga em Paris|data=2023-09-18
- ^ Calderano é tetracampeão do Pan de Tênis de Mesa, Bruna Takahashi leva duas pratas e um bronze
- ^ Irmãs Takahashi faturam prata histórica no tênis de mesa
- ^ Primeira atleta paralímpica nos Jogos Pan-Americanos é bronze no tênis de mesa
- ^ Feito inédito! Giulia Takahashi sobe dez posições e se junta a Bruna Takahashi no Top 100 do ranking mundial feminino
- ^ Ranking de simples de Giulia Takahashi
- ^ Giulia e Jouti são elimnados no Smash de Singapura
- ^ Brasil cai para a Coreia e encerra campanha histórica no Mundial
- ^ Hugo Calderano é superado no Smash de Singapura e dá adeus ao torneio; Bruna e Giulia Takahashi também caem
- ^ Brasil coloca duas duplas nas semifinais do WTT Contender Rio
- ^ Olimpíadas: Giulia Takahashi sucumbe à número 1 do mundo no tênis de mesa feminino
- ^ Giulia Takahashi and Henrique Noguti win the mixed doubles title at the WTT Contender Lima
- ^ 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
- ^ Giulia Takahashi and Guilherme Teodoro win a 'family' final against Bruna Takahashi and Hugo Calderano at the 2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championships
- ^ Giulia Takahashi and Guilherme Teodoro take bronze at WTT Contender Tunis
- ^ ITTF TABLE TENNIS WORLD RANKING Mixed Doubles Pairs 2025 Week 20 May 13th
- ^ Brazilian athletes win three victories on the first day of games at the Table Tennis World Championship, in Qatar
- ^ Giulia Takahashi and Guilherme Teodoro put Brazil in the round of 16 of the mixed doubles at the World Table Tennis Championship
- ^ Brazilian athletes win three victories on the first day of games at the Table Tennis World Championships in Qatar
- ^ Hugo Calderano and Bruna Takahashi fall, but Gui Teodoro and Giulia Takahashi advance in the mixed at the 2025 Table Tennis World Championships