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#3 Kento Momota
For the 25-year-old Japanese ace shuttler, success comes easy. In 2019, fortune has favoured Kento Momota greatly. He became the lone Japanese player to feature on a list of Chinese shuttlers to have won back-to-back World Championship titles. Collecting a total of 11 BWF titles in a span of 12 months, Momota had it really going for him as he delivered top-class performances and maintained a delicate consistency unmatched by any other male player on the tour.
The reigning World No. 1 created history when he won the All England Open against Viktor Axelsen and became the first Japanese player to do so. Momota was in sharp form and executed quality badminton en route to claiming the Singapore and Japan Open titles, the World Championship, the China and Korea Open and also the Denmark and Fuzhou China Open, which was all topped off with a World Tour Finals victory too, cementing his position as the year-ending World No. 1. Ready to fire into the next season, Momota will ride on the success wave of his 2019 and enter the next year.
