Eriko Hirose

Who is Eriko Hirose?

Eriko Hirose is a female badminton player from Japan. She is currently ranked thirteenth in the world as a singles player as of June 2011.

She competed at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the third round before losing to Wang Chen of Hong Kong.

Most recently in the YONEX BWF World Championship 2010, she caused an upset over the world number one ranking player, Wang Yihan in third round but lost to Wang Lin in the quarterfinals

In the YONEX All-England Open Badminton Championship 2011, she came second in the women's singles, losing in the final to China's Wang Shixian.