Badminton

On April 10, the Japan Badminton Association officially announced that women’s doubles player Sakuramoto Ayako voluntarily quit the national team’s women’s doubles position.

This week, Japanese badminton star Shida Chiharu, who is currently in Ningbo, Zhejiang, participating in the 2025 Badminton Asia Championships, posted on social media that she has been harassed by a stalker every time she competes in China for the past year and a half, and called for some extreme fans to immediately stop stalking and similar behaviors.