Kimiko Date

Kimiko Date
2015 at the Wimbledon Championships
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	September 28, 1970
Size:	163 cm
1st professional season:	1989
Resignation:	1. Resignation 1996 2. Resignation 2017
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 3,988,378
singles
Career record:	450: 268
Career title:	8 WTA , 14 ITF
Highest ranking:	4 (November 13 1995)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	184: 142
Career title:	6 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	28 (January 19, 2015)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Kimiko Date , Divorced Date-Krumm ( Japanese 伊達 公子 , Date Kimiko; born September 28, 1970 in Kamigyō-ku , Kyōto ) is a former Japanese tennis player .

Career

Date was voted Most Improved Player Of The Year by the WTA in 1992 . At the beginning of 1994, after winning the title in Sydney, she made it into the top ten of the WTA world rankings for the first time . Shortly afterwards, after 21 years, she was the first Japanese woman to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open . In 1995, after victories over Lindsay Davenport and Iva Majoli, she was the first Japanese woman to reach the semi-finals of the French Open . She celebrated her greatest triumph by winning the tournament at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo (final against Davenport). In Miami, she made it into the final after fending off three match points against Gabriela Sabatini and turning around a 1: 6, 1: 5 deficit. In 1996 she lost to world number one Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon semifinals after three sets.

In her career she has already won 447 individual games. In total, she won eight titles on the WTA Tour , including four times the Japan Open . At the end of 1995 she was listed at number 4 in the world rankings. In the Fed Cup she was able to record a victory over Steffi Graf (1996 7: 6, 3: 6, [12:10]). And in the same year she announced her resignation.

After victories in exhibition matches over Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova in 2008, the 37-year-old Japanese announced her comeback and won the singles title at the Japanese tennis championships in November.

At an ITF tournament in Gifu she qualified for the main draw and moved into the final after winning over top seed Aiko Nakamura , three seeded Melanie South and five seeded Rika Fujiwara , where she won Tamarine Tanasugarn 6: 4, 5 : 7, 2: 6 lost. However , she won the double tournament with her 16-year-old compatriot Kurumi Nara . After that, she collected a few titles on the ITF Women's Circuit before she increasingly competed again on the tour and in Grand Slam tournaments .

In 2009 Date-Krumm was in the main draw of the Australian Open for the first time since 1996 , but already failed in round one with 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 8 to Kaia Kanepi .

One day before her 39th birthday, she won the Hansol Korea Open 6: 3, 6: 3 in Seoul against Anabel Medina Garrigues in 2009 . This makes her the second oldest tournament winner in singles after Billie Jean King , who won her last tournament on June 6, 1983 in Birmingham and was six months older than Date-Krumm when she won in Seoul.

Date-Krumm at the 2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open

In 2010 she defeated last year's finalist Dinara Safina at the French Open , making her the oldest player to ever beat a top ten player. Shortly afterwards, she defeated Safina again at the WTA tournament in Stanford and then lost to world number six Jelena Dementjewa 6: 3, 3: 6, 4: 6. Date-Krumm was back in the top 50 in the world rankings. At the WTA tournament in Tokyo , she surprised in round one with a victory over Marija Sharapova and was eliminated in the round of 16 against Francesca Schiavone . In Osaka, on the way to the final, she defeated the top ten player Samantha Stosur and the world number thirteenth Shahar Peer. In the final, at the age of 40, she surprisingly lost to 33-year-old Tamarine Tanasugarn in the "oldest" WTA final of all time . At the end of the year she defeated Daniela Hantuchová and the world number 11 Li Na on her way to the quarter-finals in Bali .

Kimiko Date-Krumm could 2010 a. a. Celebrate successes with the following top players: Dinara Safina, Maria Sharapova, Samantha Stosur, Li Na, Daniela Hantuchová, Shahar Peer, Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova , Nadja Petrowa , Anna Tschakwetadze .

At the Australian Open in 2011, after a clear lead, she just lost to world number twelfth Agnieszka Radwańska . In 's Hertogenbosch she defeated Marija Kirilenko, who was seeded 6th, and made it to the quarterfinals. At Wimbledon, she only got through to round two.

2012 didn't go well for Date-Krumm. She had many minor injuries and never got past the first round in any Grand Slam tournament.

In 2013 she surprised in round one of the Australian Open when she defeated 12 seeded Nadja Petrowa 6: 2 and 6: 0. This means that Date-Krumm holds the record of the oldest player to ever win a single at the Australian Open. In the second round she defeated Shahar Peer 6: 2, 7: 5, before losing to Bojana Jovanovski 2: 6 and 6: 7 ³ . In doubles, she also impressed with doubles partner Arantxa Parra Santonja , when they defeated the number 2 pairing Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká in three sets with 7: 5, 3: 6 and 6: 3 and made it to the second round. At the clay court tournament in Strasbourg , she was able to celebrate her third title of the season in doubles. At Wimbledon she reached the third round in the singles, in which she had to let defending champion Serena Williams go first in two tight sets.

In 2014, Date-Krumm caused a sensation again at the US Open when she was there for the first time in the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament alongside Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová (she had already succeeded in singles in Melbourne, Paris and Wimbledon ); they were defeated by the later winners Jelena Wesnina and Jekaterina Makarowa with 5: 7, 3: 6.

In January 2015, after reaching the semi-finals together with Karolína Plíšková in Sydney , she climbed to 28th place in the double world rankings, and at over 44 she achieved another personal record.

In January 2016, she failed to qualify for the Australian Open and then did not take part for the time being. In April 2016, she had to undergo knee surgery.

At the beginning of May 2017, Date entered the ITF tournament in Gifu for the first time with a wildcard, but failed in the first round.

From December 2001 to September 2016 Date was married to the German racing driver Michael Krumm . In 2016 she opened a bakery specializing in German baked goods in Tokyo under the name "Frau Krumm".

She ended her career on September 12, 2017; previously she was eliminated in her last tournament, the Japan Women's Open Tennis , in the first round against Aleksandra Krunić with 0: 6 and 0: 6.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 12, 1992	Tokyo	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Sabine Appelmans	7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 3
2.	April 11, 1993	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Stephanie Rottier	6: 1, 6: 3
3.	January 16, 1994	Sydney	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Mary Joe Fernandez	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	April 10, 1994	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Amy Frazier	7: 5, 6: 0
5.	5th February 1995	Tokyo	WTA Tier I	Carpet (hall)	Lindsay Davenport	6: 1, 6: 2
6th	April 21, 1996	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Amy Frazier	7: 5, 6: 4
7th	August 25, 1996	San Diego	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 0
8th.	September 27, 2009	Seoul	WTA International	Hard court	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6: 3, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	April 21, 1996	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Ai Sugiyama	Amy Frazier Kimberly Po	7: 6, 6: 7, 6: 3
2.	October 16, 2011	Osaka	WTA International	Hard court	Zhang Shuai	Vania King Jaroslawa Schwedowa	7: 5, 3: 6, [11: 9]
3.	April 15, 2012	Copenhagen	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Rika Fujiwara	Sofia Arvidsson Kaia Kanepi	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 5]
4th	3rd February 2013	Pattaya	WTA International	Hard court	Casey Dellacqua	Oqgul Omonmurodova Alexandra Panova	6: 3, 6: 2
5.	April 7, 2013	Monterrey	WTA International	Hard court	Tímea Babos	Eva Birnerová tamarine tanasu yarn	6: 1, 6: 4
6th	May 25, 2013	Strasbourg	WTA International	sand	Chanelle Scheepers	Cara Black Marina Eraković	6: 4, 3: 6, [14:12]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997 - 2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	Career
Australian Open	-	AF	2	2	2	HF	3	2	-	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	HF
French Open	2	-	-	AF	2	1	HF	AF	-	-	2	1	1	1	1	Q1	HF
Wimbledon	1	2	1	2	-	3	VF	HF	-	1	1	2	1	3	1	Q1	HF
US Open	1	2	2	2	VF	VF	AF	1	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	Q1	VF

Double

competition	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994 - 2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	Career
Australian Open	1	-	VF	AF	-	1	2	1	AF	1	2	VF
French Open	-	-	1	2	-	-	2	1	2	2	2	2
Wimbledon	-	2	1	-	-	1	AF	1	1	2	2	AF
US Open	-	1	1	2	-	2	-	1	1	HF	1	HF

Web links

Commons : Kimiko Date  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA-profile Kimiko Date (English)
• ITF-profile Kimiko Date (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Kimiko Date (English)
• Kimiko Date website (Japanese, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kicker online (September 27, 2009): Victory with almost 39! Date-Krumm is wondering itself
2. ↑ Australian Open 2013: Kimiko-Date Krumm oldest winner of a women's singles match in tournament history
3. ↑ ^{a b} WTA: Date-Krumm plans to return for 2017. In: insideout-tennis.de. September 22, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016 .  (archived)
4. ↑ Kimiko Date Krumm: “Tennis Grandma” inspires Paris. , Märkische Oderzeitung from May 26, 2010.
5. ↑ Kimiko Date Krumm divorces from her husband Michael , tennisworldusa.org from September 27, 2016, accessed on February 10, 2017
6. ↑ Kimiko Date retired from tennis following her defeat by Aleksandra Krunic at the Japan Women's Open. wtatennis.com, September 12, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2017 .