Ena Shibahara

Ena Shibahara
Shibahara 2016 at the US Open
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	12th February 1998 (age 22)
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 227,988
singles
Career record:	47:37
Career title:	0 WTA , 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	416 (August 19, 2019)
Current placement:	516
Double
Career record:	78:42
Career title:	3 WTA, 1 WTA challenger, 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	25 (February 17, 2020)
Current placement:	25th
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ena Shibahara (born February 12, 1998 in Rancho Palos Verdes , California ) is a Japanese tennis player . Until July 2019 she represented the United States of America , but decided to compete for Japan to better chances of participation in the Olympic Games in 2020 in Tokyo to have.

Career

Shibahara played for the Peninsula High School team during her school days , where she won the CIF Southern Section team championships , the CIF Southern California Regional championships and the individual title of the CIF Southern Section three times in a row from 2013 to 2015 . She was named "Girls Tennis Player of the Year" four times in a row by the online magazine Daily Breeze in the High School Tennis category.

Since 2016 she has played for UCLA in the college team , the powerhouse Bruins .

Shibahara played her first professional tournament in February 2014 at the $ 25,000 tournament in El Rancho , where she lost 3: 6, 6: 1 and 2: 6 to Gabriela Dabrowski in the first round . At the end of September 2015 she was included in the world rankings for the first time. In October 2015, she and her partner Yukina Saigō reached the final of the $ 25,000 tournament in Makinohara , Japan , where they lost 4: 6 and 1: 6 to the pairing Kanae Hisami and Kotomi Takahata .

By winning the junior competition of the USTA National Championships with her partner Jada hard pairing received a wildcard for the main draw in the double at the US Open in 2016 , where she appeared in the first round against the seventh-placed pair Sania Mirza and Barbora Strýcová 3: 6 and 2: 6 documents.

Tournament victories

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 23, 2018	Baton Rouge	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Hayley Carter	Astra Sharma Gabriela Talaba	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	4th August 2018	Lexington	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Hayley Carter	Sanaz Marand Victoria Rodríguez	6: 3, 6: 1
3.	October 7, 2018	Stockton	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Hayley Carter	Quinn Gleason Luisa Stefani	7: 5, 5: 7, [10: 7]
4th	November 9, 2018	Lawrence	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Vladica Babic	Anna Danilina Ksenia Laskutova	6: 4, 6: 2
5.	17th November 2018	Norman	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Vladica Babic	María José Portillo Ramírez Sofia Sewing	6: 2, 6: 3
6th	January 27, 2019	Newport Beach	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Haley Carter	Taylor Townsend Yanina Wickmayer	6: 3, 7: 6 1
7th	February 24, 2019	Rancho Santa Fe	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Haley Carter	Francesca Di Lorenzo Catherine McNally	7: 5, 6: 2
8th.	May 18, 2019	Kurume	ITF $ 60,000	carpet	Hiroko Kuwata	Erina Hayashi Moyuka Uchijima	0: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]
9.	October 12, 2019	Tianjin	WTA International	Hard court	Shūko Aoyama	Nao Hibino Miyu Kato	6: 3, 7: 5
10.	19th October 2019	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Shūko Aoyama	Kirsten Flipkens Bethanie Mattek-Sands	6: 2, 6: 1
11.	February 16, 2020	St. Petersburg	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Shūko Aoyama	Kaitlyn Christian Alexa Guarachi	4: 6, 6: 0, [10: 3]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

Double

competition	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	-	AF	2: 1	AF
French Open	-	-	-	-		0-0	-
Wimbledon	-	-	-	-		0-0	-
US Open	1	-	-	1		0: 2	1

Web links

Commons : Ena Shibahara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Ena Shibahara (English)
• ITF profile Ena Shibahara (English)
• ITF junior profile Ena Shibahara (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tennis Briefs (4): USTA National Hard Court Winners, Olympic Winners, More (ustaflorida.com from August 16, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2016, English)
2. ↑ Ena Shibahara Player Profile. WTA, accessed October 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Ena Shibahara: Journey to Representing My Country at 2020 Olympics! makeachamp.com, accessed October 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Peninsula's Ena Shibahara spearheds 2013 Daily Breeze All-Area girls tennis team (dailybreeze.com from December 24, 2013, accessed on September 1, 2016)
5. ↑ Peninsula's Ena Shibahara leads way for girls tennis all-area team (dailybreeze.com from December 17, 2014, accessed on September 1, 2016, English)
6. ↑ Peninsula tennis star Ena Shibahara captures Open singles title at Ojai (dailybreeze.com from April 26, 2015, accessed on September 1, 2016, English)
7. ↑ UCLA-bound Ena Shibahara wins 2015 Daily Breeze Girls Tennis Player of the Year (dailybreeze.com from December 18, 2015, accessed on September 1, 2016)
8. ↑ New players to refresh UCLA women's tennis after subpar season (dailybruins.com, May 16, 2016, accessed September 1, 2016)
9. ↑ UCLA Bruins (uclabruins.com, accessed September 1, 2016)
10. ↑ Incoming Bruin doubles pair wins women's tennis national championship (dailybruin.com from August 20, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2016, English)
11. ↑ Current and former Bruins prepare for US Open (dailybruin.com from August 29, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2016, English)
12. ↑ US Open 2016: Sania Mirza- Barbora Strycova face potentially easy opener (indianexpress.com from August 31, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2016, English)