Kaho Osawa

Kaho Osawa
Personal information
Native name
大澤 佳歩
Born (2001-09-28) 28 September 2001
Asaka, Saitama, Japan
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportBadminton
HandednessRight
Coached byTomoko Maruoka
Women's doubles
Highest ranking16 (with Mai Tanabe, 19 May 2026)
Current ranking21 (with Mai Tanabe, 21 July 2026)
BWF profile
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  Japan
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place2019 KazanGirls' doubles
Bronze medal – third place2019 KazanMixed team

Kaho Osawa (大澤 佳歩, Ōsawa Kaho; born 28 September 2001) is a Japanese badminton player who specializes in women's doubles.[1] She is affiliated with the San-in Godo Bank badminton team.[2] She was a bronze medalist at the 2019 World Junior Championships, winning medals in girls' doubles with Hinata Suzuki and in mixed team event. Osawa has won five BWF International Challenge/Series titles. Partnering with Mai Tanabe, she finished as runner-up at three Super 300 tournaments in 2025: the Canada Open, the Macau Open, and the Syed Modi International. She reached a career-high world ranking of No. 16.

Career

2019: Junior career

In 2019, Osawa represented Japan at the World Junior Championships in Kazan, Russia. Partnering with Hinata Suzuki, she won a bronze medal in the girls' doubles and contributed to Japan's bronze medal in the mixed team event.[3] Later that year, the duo captured the India Junior International, a BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament.[4]

2022–2023: First senior international title

Osawa contested her first senior finals in 2022, finishing as runner-up at the India International (I) with Miho Kayama and the Maldives International with Kaoru Sugiyama.[5][6] She claimed her maiden senior international title at the 2023 Vietnam International, partnering with Asuka Sugiyama.[7]

2024–2025: Three Super 300 runners-up, world top 30

In 2024, Osawa formed a women's doubles partnership with Mai Tanabe. The pair won four BWF International Challenge/Series titles between 2024 and early 2025: the 2024 Kazakhstan International, 2024 Réunion Open, 2024 Mauritius International, and the 2025 Mexican International.[8][9][10][11]

On the 2025 BWF World Tour, Osawa and Tanabe were runners-up at three Super 300 tournaments: the Canada Open, the Macau Open, and the Syed Modi International.[12][13][14][15] The pair also made their Super 750 debut at the Japan Open, where they were eliminated in the second round by the former world No. 1 pair of Baek Ha-na and Lee So-hee.[16] Osawa reached a career-high ranking of world No. 27 on 2 December 2025.

2026

Osawa and Tanabe began the 2026 season by making their Super 1000 debut at the Malaysia Open. The pair reached the quarterfinals after defeating the third-seeded Korean duo, Kim Hye-jeong and Kong Hee-yong.[17][18] The pair later advanced to the semifinals of the Thailand Masters and the U.S. Open. In July, they reached their fourth Super 300 final at the Canada Open, finishing as runners-up to compatriots Hinata Suzuki and Nao Yamakita.[19]

In August 2026, Osawa and Tanabe qualified to compete in the World Championships in India. This marked the first time since the club's founding in 1993 that the San-in Godo Bank ("Gogin") Badminton Team was represented at the tournament.[20]

Achievements

World Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2019 Kazan Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia Japan Hinata Suzuki China Lin Fangling
China Zhou Xinru		 7–21, 21–16, 17–21 Gold Bronze [3]

BWF World Tour (4 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[21] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.[22]

Women's doubles

Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2025 Canada Open Super 300 Japan Mai Tanabe Thailand Benyapa Aimsaard
Thailand Nuntakarn Aimsaard		 12–21, 18–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [12][13]
2025 Macau Open Super 300 Japan Mai Tanabe Chinese Taipei Hsieh Pei-shan
Chinese Taipei Hung En-tzu		 18–21, 12–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [14]
2025 Syed Modi International Super 300 Japan Mai Tanabe India Gayatri Gopichand
India Treesa Jolly		 21–17, 13–21, 15–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [15]
2026 Canada Open Super 300 Japan Mai Tanabe Japan Hinata Suzuki
Japan Nao Yamakita		 15–21, 16–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [19]

BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 2 runners-up)

Women's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2022 (I) India International Japan Miho Kayama Japan Chisato Hoshi
Japan Miyu Takahashi		 18–21, 21–19, 16–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [5][23]
2022 Maldives International Japan Kaoru Sugiyama Japan Chisato Hoshi
Japan Miyu Takahashi		 16–21, 15–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [24][6]
2023 Vietnam International Japan Asuka Sugiyama Japan Tsukiko Yasaki
Japan Sorano Yoshikawa		 19–21, 21–18, 21–10 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [7]
2024 Kazakhstan International Japan Mai Tanabe Ukraine Polina Buhrova
Ukraine Yevheniia Kantemyr		 Walkover 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [8]
2024 Réunion Open Japan Mai Tanabe Germany Julia Meyer
Germany Leona Michalski		 21–8, 21–8 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [9]
2024 Mauritius International Japan Mai Tanabe Japan Hina Shiwa
Japan Chisa Yamafuji		 21–14, 21–17 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [10]
2025 Mexican International Japan Mai Tanabe Japan Mao Hatasue
Japan Miku Sugiyama		 15–11, 15–8 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [11]
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament

BWF Junior International (1 title)

Girls' doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2019 India Junior International Japan Hinata Suzuki Thailand Pornpicha Choeikeewong
Thailand Pornnicha Suwatnodom		 13–21, 21–15, 21–14 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [4]
  BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament

Performance timeline

Key
W F SF QF #R RR Q# A G S B NH N/A DNQ
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

National team

Junior level

Team events2019Ref
World Junior Championships B [25]

Individual competitions

Junior level

Girls' doubles

Events2019Ref
World Junior Championships B [3]

Senior level

Women's doubles

Events2026Ref
World Championships 2R
Tournament BWF World Tour Best Ref
2024 2025 2026
Malaysia Open A QF QF ('26) [17][18]
Indonesia Masters A 2R 2R ('26)
Thailand Masters A SF SF ('26)
German Open A QF QF ('26)
All England Open A 2R 2R ('26) [26]
Ruichang China Masters A 1R A 1R ('25) [27]
Thailand Open A 1R 1R ('26)
Malaysia Masters A 1R 1R ('26)
Singapore Open A 1R 1R ('26)
Indonesia Open A 1R 1R ('26) [28]
Macau Open A F A F ('25) [14]
U.S. Open A SF SF ('26)
Canada Open A F F F ('25, '26) [12][13][19]
Japan Open A 2R 1R 2R ('25) [16]
China Open A 1R 1R ('26)
China Masters A 1R Q 1R ('25) [29]
Arctic Open A 2R A 2R ('25) [30]
Denmark Open A 1R 1R ('25) [31]
French Open A 1R 1R ('25) [32]
Japan Masters 2R 1R 2R ('24) [33]
Syed Modi International A F F ('25) [15]
Year-end ranking 101 28 28
Tournament 2024 2025 2026 Best Ref

Wins over top-10 ranked pairs

Wins over pairs who were ranked in the world's top 10 at the time the match was played.

# Partner Opponent Rk Tournament Rd Score Rk Ref.
1 Japan Mai Tanabe South Korea Kim Hye-jeong
South Korea Kong Hee-yong		 3 2026 Malaysia Open 2R 23–21, 17–21, 21–19 28 [18]

Record against selected opponents

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 23 August 2026.[34]

Mai Tanabe

Players M W L Diff.
China Chen Qingchen & Jia Yifan 101–1
India Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand 101–1
Japan Yuki Fukushima & Mayu Matsumoto 202–2
South Korea Baek Ha-na & Lee So-hee 202–2
Thailand Benyapa Aimsaard & Nuntakarn Aimsaard 101–1

References

  1. ↑ "Kaho OSAWA | Profile". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "Member introduction". San-in Godo (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 July 2025.
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  33. ↑ "Badminton Kumamoto Masters 2025: Live Updates, Japanese Team Results, and Summary". International Olympic Committee (in Japanese). 16 November 2025. Archived from the original on 24 November 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
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