is a Japanese badminton player who specializes in women's doubles. She is affiliated with the San-in Godo Bank badminton team. 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. Later that year, the duo captured the India Junior International, a BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament.
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. She claimed her maiden senior international title at the 2023 Vietnam International, partnering with Asuka Sugiyama.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
Achievements World Junior Championships Girls' doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2019 Kazan Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia Hinata Suzuki Lin Fangling Zhou Xinru 7–21, 21–16, 17–21 Bronze
BWF World Tour (4 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, 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.
Women's doubles Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2025 Canada Open Super 300 Mai Tanabe Benyapa Aimsaard Nuntakarn Aimsaard 12–21, 18–21 Runner-up 2025 Macau Open Super 300 Mai Tanabe Hsieh Pei-shan Hung En-tzu 18–21, 12–21 Runner-up 2025 Syed Modi International Super 300 Mai Tanabe Gayatri Gopichand Treesa Jolly 21–17, 13–21, 15–21 Runner-up 2026 Canada Open Super 300 Mai Tanabe Hinata Suzuki Nao Yamakita 15–21, 16–21 Runner-up
BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 2 runners-up) Women's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref 2022 (I) India International Miho Kayama Chisato Hoshi Miyu Takahashi 18–21, 21–19, 16–21 Runner-up 2022 Maldives International Kaoru Sugiyama Chisato Hoshi Miyu Takahashi 16–21, 15–21 Runner-up 2023 Vietnam International Asuka Sugiyama Tsukiko Yasaki Sorano Yoshikawa 19–21, 21–18, 21–10 Winner 2024 Kazakhstan International Mai Tanabe Polina Buhrova Yevheniia Kantemyr Walkover Winner 2024 Réunion Open Mai Tanabe Julia Meyer Leona Michalski 21–8, 21–8 Winner 2024 Mauritius International Mai Tanabe Hina Shiwa Chisa Yamafuji 21–14, 21–17 Winner 2025 Mexican International Mai Tanabe Mao Hatasue Miku Sugiyama 15–11, 15–8 Winner 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 Hinata Suzuki Pornpicha Choeikeewong Pornnicha Suwatnodom 13–21, 21–15, 21–14 Winner
BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
Performance timeline
National team Junior level Team events 2019 Ref World Junior Championships B
Individual competitions Junior level Girls' doubles Events 2019 Ref World Junior Championships B
Senior level Women's doubles Events 2026 Ref World Championships 2R
Tournament BWF World Tour Best Ref 2024 2025 2026 Malaysia Open A QF QF ('26) 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) Ruichang China Masters A 1R A 1R ('25) Thailand Open A 1R 1R ('26) Malaysia Masters A 1R 1R ('26) Singapore Open A 1R 1R ('26) Indonesia Open A 1R 1R ('26) Macau Open A F A F ('25) U.S. Open A SF SF ('26) Canada Open A F F F ('25, '26) Japan Open A 2R 1R 2R ('25) China Open A 1R 1R ('26) China Masters A 1R 1R 1R ('25, '26) Arctic Open A 2R A 2R ('25) Denmark Open A 1R A 1R ('25) French Open A 1R A 1R ('25) Japan Masters 2R 1R A 2R ('24) Syed Modi International A F F ('25) 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 Tournament Score 1 Mai Tanabe Kim Hye-jeong Kong Hee-yong 3 2026 Malaysia Open 2R 23–21, 17–21, 21–19 28
Record against selected opponents Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 2 September 2026.
Mai Tanabe Players Chen Qingchen & Jia Yifan 1 0 1 –1 Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand 1 0 1 –1 Yuki Fukushima & Mayu Matsumoto 2 0 2 –2 Baek Ha-na & Lee So-hee 2 0 2 –2 Benyapa Aimsaard & Nuntakarn Aimsaard 2 0 2 –2
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