Kyōko Nagatsuka

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Kyōko Nagatsuka Tennis player
Nation: JapanJapan Japan
Birthday: February 22, 1974
Prize money: $ 421,541
singles
Career record: 121: 125
Career title: 0 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking: 28 (August 14 1995)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 62:70
Career title: 2 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking: 31 (June 19 1995)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Kyōko Nagatsuka ( Japanese 長 塚 京 子 , Nagatsuka Kyōko ; born February 22, 1974 in Chiba , Chiba Prefecture ) is a former Japanese tennis player .

Career

Kyōko Nagatsuka won two double titles on the WTA Tour in her professional career between 1989 and 2001 . Another title was won at the ITF level.

In 1995 she achieved her best placements in the tennis world rankings with rank 28 in singles and 31st in doubles . Her two WTA tournament wins in doubles were at the tournament in Hobart , 1995 with Ai Sugiyama and 1996 at the side of Yayuk Basuki .

She also competed in doubles with Ai Sugiyama at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, but they failed in round one. Another frequent double partner of Nagatsuka was Yone Kamio .

From 1995 to 1997 Nagatsuka played six times (two wins) for the Japanese Fed Cup team .

Tournament victories

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. January 14, 1995 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier IV Hard court JapanJapan Ai Sugiyama LatviaLatvia Larisa Neiland Manon Bollegraf
NetherlandsNetherlands 
2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
2. January 13, 1996 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier IV Hard court IndonesiaIndonesia Yayuk Basuki AustraliaAustralia Kerry-Anne Guse Park Sung-hee
Korea SouthSouth Korea 
7: 6 7 , 6: 3

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