{"id":4643,"date":"2026-08-25T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/?post_type=news&p=4643"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:50:52","slug":"shimabukuro-shenzhen-mixed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/news\/shimabukuro-shenzhen-mixed\/","title":{"rendered":"15\u6b73\u30b7\u30de\u30d6\u30af\u30ed\u304c\u6df1\u30bb\u30f3\u3067\u30df\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u512a\u52dd\u3001\u30d1\u30c9\u30eb\u6b742\u5e74\u3067\u4e09\u51a0\u9054\u6210\u306a\u3089\u305a"},"content":{"rendered":"

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He closed the mixed final with Dennehy 11-6, 11-1<\/h2>\n

The Shenzhen Open is a 500-class event with $70,000 in prize money and 500 ranking points, played at the Bao'an Sports Center Gymnasium in Shenzhen. In the mixed doubles final, Shimabukuro and Dennehy faced the Vietnamese pair of Huynh and Truong. They took the first game 11-6 and the second 11-1, the second almost entirely one-sided. It was Dennehy's 23rd birthday that day, making for an unusual picture: a title won with a partner eight years younger.<\/p>\n

The PPA Tour Asia is deep with Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean players, and a 15-year-old standing on the top step of a mixed podium is not a light event. Given his age and how short his career has been, this single gold carries more weight than its placing.<\/p>\n

Two years with a paddle, and in May he beat world No. 2 Staksrud in Atlanta<\/h2>\n

Shimabukuro is from Honolulu, Hawaii, and was originally a skateboard and surfing kid. He started pickleball only two years ago. Even so, at the Veolia Atlanta event in May 2026 he ran from the No. 22 seed all the way to the men's singles final. Along the way he sank No. 2 seed Federico Staksrud 6-11, 11-8, 11-9 and beat No. 11 seed Cliff, No. 3 seed Hunter Johnson and No. 13 seed Martinez Vich in succession. He lost the final to top seed Haworth and finished runner-up, but he had knocked out seed after seed. That record earned him the ninth overall pick by the Utah Black Diamonds in the spring Major League Pickleball (MLP) draft.<\/p>\n\n
Event and discipline<\/th>Shimabukuro's result<\/th>Score<\/th><\/tr>\n
Shenzhen Open, mixed doubles, final<\/td>Won with Dennehy<\/td>11-6, 11-1<\/td><\/tr>\n
Atlanta, men's singles, semifinal<\/td>Beat Hunter Johnson (No. 3)<\/td>\u2014<\/td><\/tr>\n
Atlanta, men's singles (April 30)<\/td>Beat Staksrud (No. 2)<\/td>6-11, 11-8, 11-9<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Tournament information from PPA Tour Asia; results based on reporting by Pickleball News Asia and PickleballSpot.<\/small><\/p>\n

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How teenagers in Japan can chase a Shimabukuro raised in Honolulu<\/h2>\n
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What players in Japan should note calmly here is that Shimabukuro did not come out of a Japanese national development program. What lifted him was Hawaii's training environment and the volume of top North American events he was thrown into from his early teens.The same Shimabukuro's run to two golds in Tokyo<\/a>shows the same thing: fast growth is inseparable from an environment where you play strong opponents often. Japan, by contrast, is stillselecting its junior national team by open application<\/a>. Both the net that picks out talent and how often the selected are sent to international stages account for the current gap.<\/p>\n

The speed is not only Shimabukuro's story.A player who reached the Asian junior quarterfinals after seven months with a paddle<\/a>is another case, and across Asia children who built athleticism in other sports are breaking into the top ranks quickly. Shimabukuro, carrying body mechanics from skating and surfing onto the court, is the clearest example. There is plenty of room for teenagers in Japan to climb at the same angle.<\/p>\n

What players in Japan chasing Shimabukuro can do now<\/h2>\n