Tall tosses, short stature, three world titles: the Yamaguchi method
Many shuttlers challenged Chinese dominance in women’s singles. But nobody shattered the Chinese canon of what a badminton champion’s ideal frame ought to be quite like Akane Yamaguchi. Three World titles and still going strong on the circuit, she grew up in Katsuyama, a city of mere 25,000 in remote Fukui Prefecture, emerging on the…