Hiroko Kuwata

Hiroko Kuwata
2015 at the Wimbledon Championships
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	18th December 1990 (age 29)
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Daijiro Furusyo
Prize money:	$ 313,075
singles
Career record:	271: 233
Career title:	0 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	150 (May 9, 2016)
Current placement:	344
Double
Career record:	193: 136
Career title:	0 WTA, 18 ITF
Highest ranking:	112 (July 13, 2015)
Current placement:	345
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Hiroko Kuwata ( Japanese 桑田 寛 子 , Kuwata Hiroko; born December 18, 1990 in Yokohama ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Kuwata, who started playing tennis at the age of seven, prefers the hard court according to the ITF profile. So far she has won seven singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour . Her best positions in the world rankings to date were achieved in May 2016 with 150th place in the singles and in July 2015 with 112th place in the double ranking.

Kuwata achieved her best result on the WTA Tour at the Citi Open 2014 . After winning qualifications over Sanaz Marand and Stéphanie Dubois , she moved into the main draw of a WTA tournament for the first time in her career. There she defeated Alison Riske before she had to admit defeat to Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova in the second round . In the doubles competition, she and her partner Kurumi Nara lost out in the final against Shūko Aoyama and Gabriela Dabrowski .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 24, 2012	Kofu	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Liu Fangzhou	6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 6 7
2.	17th August 2013	Usak	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Michaela Frlicka	7: 6 3 , 6: 2
3.	September 14, 2013	Kyoto	ITF $ 10,000	Carpet (hall)	Akiko Yonemura	6: 1, 6: 2
4th	September 26, 2015	Bangkok	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Bunyawi Thamchaiwat	6: 3, 7: 6 4
5.	October 31, 2015	Bangkok	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Valery Strachova	7: 5, 6: 4
6th	May 8, 2016	Gifu	ITF $ 75,000 + H	Hard court	Wang Qiang	6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 4
7th	June 9, 2018	Singapore	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Jovana Jakšić	7: 6 4 , 6: 0

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	March 17, 2012	Miyazaki	ITF $ 10,000	race	Akari Inoue	Kanae Hisami Yumi Miyazaki	6: 3, 6: 0
2.	June 23, 2012	Mie	ITF $ 10,000	race	Yūki Tanaka	Akari Inoue Kaori Onishi	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 5]
3.	22th of March 2013	Kofu	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Akari Inoue	Han Na-lae Yang Zi	3: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
4th	September 14, 2013	Kyoto	ITF $ 10,000	Carpet (hall)	Miyu Kato	Mana Ayukawa Emi Mutaguchi	6: 4, 6: 2
5.	June 14, 2014	Fargʻona	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Mari Tanaka	Nao Hibino Prarthana Thombare	6: 1, 6: 4
6th	July 12, 2014	Gatineau	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Chiaki Okadaue	Mana Ayukawa Justyna Jegiołka	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	19th July 2014	Granby	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Riko Sawayanagi	Erin Routliffe Carol Zhao	without a fight
8th.	February 6, 2015	Grenoble	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Demi Schuurs	Manon Arcangioli Cindy Burger	6: 1, 6: 3
9.	March 13, 2015	Mildura	ITF $ 15,000	race	Yūki Tanaka	Tian Ran Wang Yan	6: 2, 6: 0
10.	5th June 2015	Andijon	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nigina Abduraimova	Weronika Kudermetowa Xenia Lykina	4: 6, 7: 6 5 , [11: 9]
11.	September 25, 2015	Bangkok	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Ayaka Okuno	Mana Ayukawa Yūki Tanaka	2: 6, 6: 1, [10: 8]
12.	July 30, 2016	Lexington	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Zhu Lin	Sophie Chang Alexandra Mueller	6-0, 7-5
13.	October 22, 2016	Suzhou	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Akiko Omae	Jacqueline Cako Sabina Sharipova	6: 1, 6: 3
14th	January 6, 2017	Hong Kong	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Akiko Omae	Ksenija Lykina Riko Sawayanagi	6: 1, 6: 0
15th	15th July 2017	Winnipeg	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Valeria Savinych	Kimberly Birrell Caroline Dolehide	6: 4, 7: 6 4
16.	July 22, 2017	Gatineau	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Valeria Savinych	Kimberly Birrell Emily Webley-Smith	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
17th	28th September 2018	Darwin	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Rutuja Bhosale	Kimberly Birrell Katy Dunne	6: 2, 6: 4
18th	May 18, 2019	Kurume	ITF $ 60,000	carpet	Ena Shibahara	Erina Hayashi Moyuka Uchijima	0: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]

Personal

Hiroko Kuwata is studying at Waseda University .

Web links

• WTA profile Hiroko Kuwata (English)
• ITF profile of Hiroko Kuwata (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 桑田 寛 子 . Japanese Tennis Association, accessed April 3, 2017 (Japanese).