Yuna Ojio - unique grip
Marcos
Albert
Yes, in Japanese, it's called the "katana-grip."
For those of you who can read Chinese, "katana" is written this way: 刀
And her name is written out this way: 小塩悠菜
(Ojio Yuuna)
I've been watching her for the past few years and I get the sense she has been told to stop holding the racket that way, so she has been trying to learn how to chop like her older sister, Ojio Haruna, who's the top junior girl chopper in Japan.
Adam Bobrow calls her the "claw." Actually, that Chinese character for "katana" kinda looks like a claw...
Here's a funny vid of him & her playing a
match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxRTbAY7OUA
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Albert
Last week, Japan had their Nat'l Team Trials for the World Youth Championships which will be held this December in Portugal and Ojio Yuuna or "The Claw," as Adam Bobrow calls her, played along with her older sister, Ojio Haruna, who eventually won the event. Unfortunately, I could only find very short highlight vids except for one--a full match of her vs. another junior girl who looks Chinese to me by the name of Aoi Sakura. Here's the match: 小塩悠菜 vs 青井さくら｜2021世界ユース日本代表1次選考合宿 女子シングルス グループB - YouTube
Oh, for those of you who can read Chinese, as you will see in the
video title (and the link above), Aoi Sakura's last name, "Aoi,"
is written out in Chinese and her first name, Sakura, is written
out [phonetically] in Japanese. "Sakura" is a very common girl's
name over there which means "cherry [blossom] tree."