Maki Arai (新井 麻葵, Arai Maki; born 23 December 1982) is a former professional Japanese tennis player. Her career-high…
Maki Arai (新井 麻葵, Arai Maki; born 23 December 1982) is a former professional Japanese tennis player. Her career-high singles rank is No. 425, which she reached in June 2004. Her high doubles ranking is world No. 185, which she achieved in September 2005. Arai retired from professional tour 2010.
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Ai Sugiyama (杉山愛, Sugiyama Ai; born July 5, 1975) is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1…
Ai Sugiyama (杉山愛, Sugiyama Ai; born July 5, 1975) is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles titles, including three major titles (one with Julie Halard-Decugis and two partnering Kim Clijsters), and one mixed doubles title (partnering Mahesh Bhupathi). Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam tournament main-draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.
Yuka Kaneko (née Yuka Yoshida, Japanese: 吉田友佳, born 1 April 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Japan. In…
Yuka Kaneko (née Yuka Yoshida, Japanese: 吉田友佳, born 1 April 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Japan. In her career, she won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour: 1995 in Tokyo, 1996 in Pattaya, and 2005 in Memphis. Kaneko also won five singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her best Grand Slam performance came in 1998 when she reached the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament of the US Open.
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Miyu Kato (Japanese: 加藤 未唯, romanized: Katō Miyu; born 21 November 1994) is a Japanese professional tennis player who…
Miyu Kato (Japanese: 加藤 未唯, romanized: Katō Miyu; born 21 November 1994) is a Japanese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She reached career-high WTA rankings of world No. 26 in doubles on 1 January 2024 and No. 122 in singles on 15 January 2018. Kato has won six doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three at WTA 125 level. She has also won four singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In mixed doubles, she won the 2023 French Open with Germany's Tim Pütz, her first Grand Slam title. Three of Kato's six WTA Tour doubles titles were won with Indonesia's Aldila Sutjiadi: at Auckland and Cleveland in 2023, and Hua Hin in 2024. The pair also finished runners-up in the doubles event at the 2023 WTA Elite Trophy. In 2025, Kato reached the women's doubles finals at two WTA 1000 events: the 2025 Miami Open with Cristina Bucșa and the 2025 China Open with Fanny Stollár. Representing Japan, she won the bronze medal in women's doubles at the 2018 Asian Games with Makoto Ninomiya and has represented her country in the Billie Jean King Cup.
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Kurumi Nara (奈良 くるみ, Nara Kurumi; born 30 December 1991) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. In her…
Kurumi Nara (奈良 くるみ, Nara Kurumi; born 30 December 1991) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. In her career, she won one singles title on the WTA Tour, with seven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 August 2014, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 32. On 2 May 2016, she peaked at No. 109 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Japan Fed Cup team, Nara has a win–loss record of 12–8.
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Aiko Nakamura (中村藍子, Nakamura Aiko) (born 28 December 1983), is a Japanese former professional tennis player. In July…
Aiko Nakamura (中村藍子, Nakamura Aiko) (born 28 December 1983), is a Japanese former professional tennis player. In July 2008, she was the second highest WTA-ranked Japanese singles tennis player, at No. 107, after Ai Sugiyama. Nakamura was born in Tennōji-ku, Osaka. Like her role-model Monica Seles, she had a double-handed forehand and backhand, but served right-handed. She won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In 2006, she reached the final of the Japan Open in Tokyo, where she lost to Marion Bartoli in three sets. Nakamura also played for the Japan Fed Cup team. She retired from professional tennis in 2012.
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Kimiko Date (伊達 公子, Date Kimiko; born 28 September 1970) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached…
Kimiko Date (伊達 公子, Date Kimiko; born 28 September 1970) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in 1995, and first retired from professional tennis in November 1996. Date returned to tennis nearly twelve years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008. She then won her eighth WTA Tour title at the 2009 Korea Open, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour. In 2013, she won three WTA Tour titles in doubles and at the 2014 US Open, aged 43, she reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam doubles tournament for the first time in her career. Date announced her final retirement in September 2017.
Shinobu Asagoe (浅越しのぶ, Asagoe Shinobu; born 28 June 1976) is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional…
Shinobu Asagoe (浅越しのぶ, Asagoe Shinobu; born 28 June 1976) is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006.
Nao Hibino (日比野 菜緒, Hibino Nao; born 28 November 1994) is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as…
Nao Hibino (日比野 菜緒, Hibino Nao; born 28 November 1994) is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles by the WTA. Hibino has won three singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won ten singles and eleven doubles tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. Hibino was the number-one-ranked Japanese player in the WTA rankings for five weeks starting on 11 January 2016, and reached this position again on 3 April 2023. Hibino made her breakthrough in 2015, when she won her first WTA Tour title in singles at the Tashkent Open. As a result, she debuted in the top 100. Since then she has spent several years in the top 100, and has been in the top 150 constantly except for a period between February 2022 and September 2022 after a layoff from October 2021 to late April 2022. She has represented Japan at national competitions, debuting in Fed Cup in 2016, and at the Summer Olympics in 2021.