Sora Matsushima and his amazing journey

Sora Masushima, born on 29th April 2007, Japan is currently one of the best players to watch. You can see this 16 year old is relaxed and happy while playing table tennis. He is able to hit any serve with a devastating backhand and has an equally strong forehand.

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About Sora Matsushima

Japan, Home of talented Takkyu players has produced another prodigy Sora Matsushima. Born on 29th April 2007 in Kyoto, Japan, currently he is already taking part in WTT events and even won a WTT doubles title at the age of 16! This kid is special and so his family. His parents Takashi and Yumiko Matsushima were mixed doubles semi-finalists at the All Japan National Championships in 2001. He is the oldest brother of the family who has turned pro. Scroll down to read about his family. Professionally, he is playing in Nojima T league with Japan Kinoshita Meister, Tokyo.You may have seem below Matsushima family’s video by super talented Adam Bobrow -

Sora Matsushima Equipment

As of August 2023, Sora is using Butterfly Harimoto Tomokazu Innerforce ALC with Butterfly Dignics 05 of Forehand and Dignics 09c on Backhand. Sora is a Butterfly sponsored athlete and there is a possibility that he might get a blade on his name.

Achievements of Sora Matsushima

The talented young Sora has been amazing in tournaments, below are his achievements which are updated till August, 2023.

Games	Type	Result	Year
WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro	Single	Runner Up	2023
WTT Contender Lima	Doubles	Winner	2023
WTT Youth Contender Panagyurishte (U17)	Singles	Winner	2023
WTT Youth Contender Panagyurishte (U19)	Singles	Runner Up	2023
WTT Youth Contender Wladyslawowo (U19)	Singles	Winner	2023
WTT Youth Contender Berlin (U17)	Singles	Winner	2023
WTT Youth Contender Berlin (U19)	Singles	Runner Up	2023
WTT Youth Contender Helsingborg (U17)	Singles	Winner	2023
WTT Youth Contender Helsingborg (U19)	Singles	Winner	2023
WTT Youth Contender Platja D’Aro (U17)	Singles	Winner	2022
WTT Youth Contender Berlin (U17)	Singles	Winner	2022
WTT Youth Contender Berlin (U19)	Singles	Runner Up	2022
WTT Youth Contender Linz (U15)	Singles	Winner	2022
All Japan Championships	Singles	Runner Up	2020
East Asian Hopes Championships	Singles	Winner	2019
All Japan Championships (U13)	Singles	Winner	2018
All Japan Championships (U12)	Singles	Winner	2018

Sora Matsushima. the table tennis family

In 2018, Iam Marshal, ITTF Publications Manager wrote an interesting article by Sora Matsushima, In the Blood. Here is an excerpt from the same article -

Simply table tennis is in the blood; parents Takashi and Yumiko were Mixed Doubles semi-finalists at the All Japan National Championships in 2001; at the time they were university students.

However, more pertinently, he is the grand-nephew of Tokio Tasaka, the owner of no less than six World Championships medals.

In Munich in 1969 he was the Men’s Doubles runner up in partnership with the late Nobuhiko Hazegawa and Men’s Singles semi-finalist. Later in 1971 in Nagoya he was member of the silver medal winning team as well as Men’s Doubles bronze medallist again with Nobuhiko Hazegawa.

Later in Sarajevo in 1973, he was once more a member of the Men’s Team that secured bronze, whilst in 1977 in Birmingham, he was the Mixed Doubles runner up; his partner in the English city was Sachiko Yokota. She is the Tournament Director at the current Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour Lion Japan Open.

Rio de Janeiro , Runner Up Sora Matsushima

This was one tournament where Sora defeated top level players back to back. Do you want to know who all he won against? Well in the qualifiers, he defeated players like João Monteiro.

• In round of 32, Sora defeated inform Marcos Freitas from Portugal who recently won WTT Contender Lima. in 4 game match with a victory of 3-1.
• In round of 16, he defeated Lee Sang Su from Korea who is one of the most powerful forehand attacker.
• In quaterfinals, he defeated Dimitrij Ovtcharov who has won a total of two silver and four bronze medals at the Olympics in a really hard fought battle of 3-2 score.
• In semifinals, he defeated Cho Seungmin who has won made serval upsets in the tournament and won against him with a set score of 3-2.
• In the finals, he lost against Mattias Falck.

Congratulation Sora on an amazing jounery till now. The world will definitely be watching this young genius.

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