is a Japanese

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player. In the national event, she play for the Tonami Transportation.

Career

Nidaira came from the

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, and started playing badminton at aged five. Since the elementary school she has won several national championships, and in 2009, she joined the Japanese junior team. In 2013, she competed at the U-17 Asian Junior Championships, and won the girls' singles gold. After graduating from high school, she joined the Tonami Transportation team. Nidaira was part of the Japanese U-19 team, that won the mixed team bronze medal at the

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, 2016 World Junior Championships, and in the girls' singles event in

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. She also won the mixed team bronze at the

and 2016 Asian Junior Championships. Nidaira made a debut in the senior event in 2015, and at the 2016 Korea Masters, a Grand Prix Gold tournament, she finished in the semifinals round, lose to host player Lee Jang-mi in the straight games. In 2017, she was the runner-up at the

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tournament in

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, and won her first senior international title at the

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in the

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Achievements

BWF World Junior Championships

''Girls' singles''

BWF World Tour (1 runner-up)

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(BWF). The BWF World Tour is 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 singles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (6 titles, 4 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' :

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tournament :

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tournament

References

External links

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Natsuki Nidaira
at ''www.tonami-badminton.jp'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Nidaira, Natsuki Living people 1998 births People from Mito, Ibaraki Sportspeople from Ibaraki Prefecture Japanese female badminton players 21st-century Japanese women