Ai Fukuhara

Ai Fukuhara (Japanese福 原 爱, Fukuhara Ai, born November 1, 1988 in Sendai ) is a Japanese table tennis player. She took 2012 for the third time participate in the Olympics.

Achievements

Ai Fukuharas has already been introduced as a three year old by her mother, a table tennis player, table tennis ans. She finished second at the Japanese Girls Championship in 1999.

In the following years she participated in many Pro- Tour tournaments for adults. Since 2003, she has been nominated for the world championships - by 2012 ten times. She won bronze in each case with the Japanese women's team in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. In 2003, she reached the final at the Asian Championship in doubles with at Konishi. In the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in 2011, she was second in doubles with Kasumi Ishikawa.

2004 and 2008 they reached at the Summer Olympics in the individual competition each in the Round of 16, 2004, she was the youngest participant in 2008 she won the women's team to fourth place. By 2010, she was trained by Tang Yuan Yuan. In 2012 she qualified for the third time for Olympic participation and won along with Kasumi Ishikawa and Sayaka Hirano silver medal in the team competition.

2011, Ai Fukuhara first time Japan champion in singles.

Results from the ITTF database