Hiroe Yuki

, is a retired female badminton player of Japan who won numerous major international titles from the late 1960's to the late 1970's. She was perhaps the most notable of a cadre of fine Japanese players who helped Japan to win all but one of the six Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions held between 1966 and 1981 [Pat Davis, The "Guinness Book of Badminton" (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlative Ltd., 1983) 133-136.] . With the possible exception of Etsuko Toganoo she is Japan's most successful ever player at the prestigious All-England Championships winning four singles titles (1969, 1974, 1975, 1977) and one doubles title (1971) there [Pat Davis, The "Guinness Book of Badminton" (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1983) 106, 108.] . Yuki overcame an Achilles tendon rupture early in her career to compile her impressive record [ Herbert Scheele ed., The "International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971" (Canterbury, Kent< England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 220] . She won the bronze medal at the 1977 IBF World Championships in women's singles. In 2002 she was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame.

References