Junri Namigata

Junri Namigata
Junri Namigata 2018 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	5th July 1982
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	57 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Jiro Senda
Prize money:	$ 622,766
singles
Career record:	467: 374
Career title:	0 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	105 (February 28, 2011)
Current placement:	343
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	311: 204
Career title:	0 WTA, 1 WTA challenge, 25 ITF
Highest ranking:	101 (May 25, 2015)
Current placement:	138
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Junri Namigata ( Japanese 波形 純 理 , Namigata Junri ; born July 5, 1982 in Koshigaya ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Namigata has been a professional tennis player since 2000. The right-hander has not yet won a title on the WTA Tour . In 2014 she won the WTA Challenger in Nanchang in doubles with Chuang Chia-jung . Her balance sheet looks better at the ITF level, where she has already booked six single and 22 double titles.

In 2008 Namigata was in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at Wimbledon ; she failed with her doubles partner Ayumi Morita in round one. With her compatriot, she achieved the greatest success of her career so far at the WTA tournament in Bangkok , when they reached the final against the Chinese Sun Tiantian and Yan Zi . However, they could not compete in the final.

In 2011 Namigata played five games, including three singles, for the Japanese Fed Cup team , all of which they won.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 15, 2007	Miyazaki	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Shuai Zhang	6: 4, 6: 2
2.	May 31, 2009	Gunma	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Wen-hsin Hsu	6: 1, 6: 1
3.	July 19, 2009	Miyazaki	ITF $ 10,000	carpet	Shiho Akita	7: 6 6 , 6: 2
4th	May 9, 2010	Fukuoka	ITF $ 50,000	race	Nikola Hofmanova	6: 1, 6: 2
5.	August 8, 2010	Beijing	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Shuai Zhang	7: 6 3 , 6: 2
6th	August 31, 2014	Tsukuba	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Kai-chen Chang	6: 0, 7: 6 3
7th	1st September 2019	Nanao	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Ayano Shimizu	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 31, 2004	Tokyo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Kumiko Iijima	Maki Arai Akiko Yonemura	6: 3, 6: 1
2.	July 17, 2005	Hamilton	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Kumiko Iijima	Lauren Barnikow Lauren Breadmore	6: 7 4 , 6: 2, 6: 2
3.	May 28, 2006	Nagano	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Kumiko Iijima	Remi Tezuka Tomoko Yonemura	6: 3, 7: 6 3
4th	August 6, 2006	Tokachi	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Kumiko Iijima	Shiho Hisamatsu Remi Tezuka	7: 5, 6: 4
5.	September 24, 2006	Ibaraki	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Kumiko Iijima	Natsumi Hamamura Ayaka Maekawa	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, 6: 2
6th	July 7, 2007	Nagoya	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Akiko Yonemura	Chang Kyung-mi Kim Jin-hee	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4
7th	August 4, 2007	Obihiro	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Kumiko Iijima	Ayumi Morita Akiko Yonemura	7: 6 3 , 6: 0
8th.	September 15, 2007	Tokyo	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Rika Fujiwara	Kumiko Iijima Akiko Yonemura	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , [10: 5]
9.	October 18, 2008	Makinohara	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Natsumi Hamamura	Chae Kyung-yee Han Xinyun	7: 5, 7: 6 4
10.	May 23, 2009	Nagano	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Akiko Yonemura	Tomoyo Takagishi Varatchaya Wongteanchai	6: 1, 6: 4
11.	April 1, 2012	Bundaberg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Shūko Aoyama	Sacha Jones Sally Peers	6: 1, 7: 5
12.	July 8, 2012	Middelburg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Yurika Sema	Bernice van de Velde Angelique van der Meet	6: 3, 6: 1
13.	May 11th, 2013	Fukuoka	ITF $ 50,000	race	Erika Sema	Rika Fujiwara Akiko Omae	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 7]
14th	October 26, 2013	Hamamatsu	ITF $ 25,000	race	Shūko Aoyama	Belinda Bencic Sopia Schapatawa	6: 4, 6: 3
15th	March 29, 2014	Nishi-tama	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Akiko Yonemura	Choi Ji-hee Akari Inoue	6: 2, 6: 4
16.	May 24, 2014	Karuizawa	ITF $ 25,000	race	Akiko Yonemura	Kanae Hisami Chiaki Okadaue	6: 2, 7: 5
17th	May 31, 2014	Changwon	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Chuang Chia-young	Kim So-jung Lee Ye-ra	7: 6 5 , 6: 0
18th	July 26, 2014	Nanchang	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Chuang Chia-young	Chan Chin-wei Xu Yifan	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
19th	February 13, 2015	Launceston	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Han Xinyun	Wang Yafan Yang Zhaoxuan	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 6]
20th	17th February 2017	Perth	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Riko Sawayanagi	Irina Bara Prarthana Thombare	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, [11: 9]
21st	February 24, 2017	Perth	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Riko Sawayanagi	Tammi Patterson Olivia Rogowska	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 6]
22nd	May 14, 2017	Fukuoka	ITF $ 60,000	carpet	Kotomi Takahata	Erina Hayashi Robu Kajitani	6: 0, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
23.	18th November 2017	Toyota	ITF $ 60,000	Carpet (hall)	Ksenija Lykina	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 4]
24.	2nd June 2019	Hong Kong	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Abigail Tere-Apisah	Erina Hayashi Momoko Kobori	6: 3, 2: 6, [10: 6]
25th	June 23, 2019	Jakarta	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Haruka Kaji	Beatrice Gumulya Jessy Rompies	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 7]
26th	July 27, 2019	Granby	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Haruka Kaji	Quinn Gleason Ingrid Neel	7: 6 5 , 5: 7, [10: 8]

Personal

Junri Namigata graduated from Waseda University and also plays tennis for the Livic team at Kita-Nihon Bussan ( 北 日本 物産 ).

Web links

Commons : Junri Namigata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Junri Namigata (English)
• ITF profile Junri Namigata (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Junri Namigata (English)
• Entry with the Japanese Tennis Association (Japanese)