Mai Tanabe

Mai Tanabe
Personal information
Native name
田部 真唯
Born (2003-06-04) 4 June 2003 (age 23)
Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportBadminton
HandednessRight
Coached byTomoko Maruoka
Women's doubles
Highest ranking16 (with Kaho Osawa, 19 May 2026)
BWF profile

Mai Tanabe (田部 真唯, Tanabe Mai; born 4 June 2003) is a Japanese badminton player who competes in women's doubles. She is affiliated with the San-in Godo Bank badminton team. Partnering with Kaho Osawa, Tanabe was a runner-up at four Super 300 tournaments, the 2025 Canada Open, the 2025 Macau Open, the 2025 Syed Modi International, and the 2026 Canada Open. She has also won five titles on the BWF International Challenge/Series circuit.

Career

In 2023, Tanabe won her first international title at the Mauritius International, partnering with Natsumi Takasaki. The pair were also runners-up at the Réunion Open that same year.

She formed a new partnership with Kaho Osawa in 2024, and together they won three BWF International Challenge/Series titles: the Kazakhstan International, the Réunion Open, and the Mauritius International.

Tanabe and Osawa secured their first title of the 2025 season at the Mexican International. On the BWF World Tour, they were runners-up at two Super 300 tournaments: the Canada Open and the Macau Open. 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.

Tanabe and Osawa began the 2026 season at the Malaysia Open, making their Super 1000 debut. 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, Tanabe and Osawa 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. Additionally, Tanabe became the first player from Shimane Prefecture to compete in the event. She then teamed up with the 2023 Asian Junior champion, Mei Sudo, to compete in the India International in October 2026.

Achievements

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 Japan Kaho Osawa Thailand Benyapa Aimsaard
Thailand Nuntakarn Aimsaard		 12–21, 18–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2025 Macau Open Super 300 Japan Kaho Osawa Chinese Taipei Hsieh Pei-shan
Chinese Taipei Hung En-tzu		 18–21, 12–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2025 Syed Modi International Super 300 Japan Kaho Osawa India Gayatri Gopichand
India Treesa Jolly		 21–17, 13–21, 15–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2026 Canada Open Super 300 Japan Kaho Osawa Japan Hinata Suzuki
Japan Nao Yamakita		 15–21, 16–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 1 runner-up)

Women's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2023 Mauritius International Japan Natsumi Takasaki United States Srivedya Gurazada
United States Ishika Jaiswal		 21–4, 21–14 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2023 Réunion Open Japan Natsumi Takasaki France Margot Lambert
France Anne Tran		 21–14, 14–21, 10–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2024 Kazakhstan International Japan Kaho Osawa Ukraine Polina Buhrova
Ukraine Yevheniia Kantemyr		 Walkover 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2024 Réunion Open Japan Kaho Osawa Germany Julia Meyer
Germany Leona Michalski		 21–8, 21–8 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2024 Mauritius International Japan Kaho Osawa Japan Hina Shiwa
Japan Chisa Yamafuji		 21–14, 21–17 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2025 Mexican International Japan Kaho Osawa Japan Mao Hatasue
Japan Miku Sugiyama		 15–11, 15–8 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament

Performance timeline

Key
W F SF QF #R RR Q# A G S B NH N/A DNQ
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Individual competitions

Senior level

Women's doubles

Events2026Ref
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 Rk Tournament Rd Score Rk Ref.
1 Japan Kaho Osawa South Korea Kim Hye-jeong
South Korea 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.

Kaho Osawa

Players M W L Diff.
China Chen Qingchen & Jia Yifan 101–1
India Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand 101–1
Japan Yuki Fukushima & Mayu Matsumoto 202–2
South Korea Baek Ha-na & Lee So-hee 202–2
Thailand Benyapa Aimsaard & Nuntakarn Aimsaard 202–2

References

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