Ayumi Morita

Ayumi Morita
Ayumi Morita at the 2013 Australian Open
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	March 11, 1990
Size:	164 cm
Weight:	54 kg
1st professional season:	2005
Playing hand:	Right, forehand and backhand with both hands
Trainer:	Junichi Maruyama
Prize money:	$ 1,666,846
singles
Career record:	260: 220
Career title:	0 WTA , 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	40 (October 3, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	75:68
Career title:	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	65 (February 9, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ayumi Morita ( Japanese 森田 あ ゆ み , Morita Ayumi ; born March 11, 1990 in Ōta ) is a former Japanese tennis player .

Career

In singles, Morita reached the semi-finals in four WTA tournaments : in 2009 she had to give up on clay against Lucie Hradecká due to injury in Strasbourg , in the same year she lost on hard court in Guangzhou against Alberta Brianti in two sets, in 2010 she also failed on hard court in Kuala Lumpur to Alissa Kleibanowa and in the spring of 2013 she finally lost to Karolína Plíšková in two straight sentences. She achieved her best result in a Grand Slam tournament when she made it to the round of 16 of the Australian Open in 2011 and 2013.

In doubles, she stood with her compatriot Junri Namigata on the WTA Tour in the finals in Bangkok (2007) and Tokyo (2008). At the ITF Women's Circuit she won eight singles tournaments and three doubles titles with changing partners.

Morita was a member of the Japanese Fed Cup team from 2007 (their record: 23 wins, 14 defeats) and took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .

Morita, who only competed in four tournaments in 2015, slipped to 794th place in the world rankings by the end of the year and was no longer listed there. In the summer of 2016, she tried a comeback at an ITF tournament, but gave up her first match in qualifying in the first set when the score was 2-5. In 2017 she returned to the WTA Tour, but did not get beyond qualification in her first tournaments.

She played her last match in February 2018 in the individual competition in Perth , where she was eliminated in the second qualifying round.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 6, 2006	Obihiro Tokachi	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Erika Takao	6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 6 6
2.	October 1, 2006	Tokyo	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Chan Yung-jan	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
3.	July 23, 2007	Kurume	ITF $ 25,000	race	Erika Takao	6: 1, 3: 1 exercise
4th	November 2, 2008	Tokyo	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Jarmila Gajdošová	6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 3
5.	November 23, 2008	Kolkata	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Elora Dabija	6: 3, 6: 1
6th	November 30, 2008	Toyota	ITF $ 75,000	Carpet (hall)	Xenia Lykina	6: 1, 6: 3
7th	October 10, 2010	Tokyo	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Jill Craybas	6: 3, 7: 5
8th.	November 6, 2011	Taipei	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Kimiko Date-Krumm	6: 2, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	May 5, 2007	Gifu	ITF $ 50,000	carpet	Ai Sugiyama	Kumiko Iijima Seiko Okamoto	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 0
2.	May 12, 2007	Fukuoka	ITF $ 50,000	carpet	Akiko Yonemura	Rika Fujiwara Junri Namigata	6: 2, 6: 2
3.	October 10, 2009	Tokyo	ITF $ 100,000 + H	Hard court	Chan Yung-jan	Kimiko Date-Krumm Rika Fujiwara	6: 2, 6: 4

Web links

Commons : Ayumi Morita  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Ayumi Morita (English)
• ITF profile Ayumi Morita (English)
• Fed Cup stats Ayumi Morita (English)
• Entry with the Japanese Tennis Association (Japanese)