Aiko Nakamura

Aiko Nakamura
Aiko Nakamura at the 2007 Australian Open
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	December 28, 1983
Size:	163 cm
Weight:	56 kg
1st professional season:	1999
Resignation:	unknown
Playing hand:	Right, forehand and backhand with both hands
Trainer:	Eiji Takeuchi
Prize money:	$ 861,081
singles
Career record:	268: 237
Career title:	0 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	47 (August 6, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	80: 113
Career title:	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	64 (March 3, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Aiko Nakamura ( Japanese 中 村 藍 子 , Nakamura Aiko ; born December 28, 1983 in Tennōji-ku , Osaka ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Nakamura, who prefers to play hard and grass courts, began playing tennis at the age of five. In November 1998 she played her first ITF tournament, in 1999 she became a professional player.

So far she has won four tournaments in singles and three in doubles on the ITF Circuit. In 2006 she reached the final of the Japan Open in Tokyo , but had to admit defeat to French Marion Bartoli in three sets 6: 2, 2: 6, 2: 6. In 2008 she was there in the double finals.

In 2011 she failed to qualify both at the Australian Open and in Paris. At Wimbledon, she did not appear at all. She has also not won a tournament on the WTA Tour in her professional career .

Between 2005 and 2009, Nakamura played for the Japanese team in the Fed Cup .

Since her failure to qualify at the US Open 2012 , she has not competed in any official tournament.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 8, 2004	Louisville	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Vilmarie Castellvi	6: 4, 6: 2
2.	October 24, 2004	Haibara gun	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Yuka Yoshida	6: 1, 6: 4
3.	May 3, 2009	Gifu	ITF $ 50,000	carpet	Tomoko Yonemura	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	August 29, 2011	Tsukuba	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Chan Chin-wei	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 28, 2002	Evansville	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Kim Jin-hee	Gabrielle Baker Deanna Roberts	6: 4, 6: 0
2.	April 18, 2004	Ho Chi Minh City	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Rika Fujiwara	Olena Antypina Gjulnara Fattachetdinova	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	May 3, 2009	Gifu	ITF $ 50,000	carpet	Sophie Ferguson	Misaki Doi Kurumi Nara	6: 2, 6: 1

Web links

Commons : Aiko Nakamura  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Aiko Nakamura (English)
• ITF profile Aiko Nakamura (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Aiko Nakamura (English)