Miharu Imanishi

Miharu Imanishi
Miharu Imanishi (2018)
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	20th May 1992 (age 28)
Size:	162 cm
Prize money:	$ 195,083
singles
Career record:	244: 212
Career title:	0 WTA , 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	187 (May 28, 2018)
Current placement:	399
Double
Career record:	68:98
Career title:	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	251 (September 9, 2019)
Current placement:	534
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Miharu Imanishi ( Japanese 今 西 美 晴 , Imanishi Miharu ; born May 20, 1992 in Ujitawara ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Miharu Imanishi started playing tennis at the age of six. She reached the quarter-finals at the Japanese elementary school championships, came third at the middle school championships, won the high school championships in singles and, at the age of 18, achieved bronze in singles and doubles at the junior championships. After graduating from high school, she joined the Shimadzu company in April 2011 . After further victories at Japanese amateur championships, she began her professional career on April 1, 2014.

Imanishi primarily plays on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour , where she has won five singles and three doubles so far. She achieved her best position so far in the single world rankings in May 2018 with place 187 and in the double world rankings with place 251 in September 2019.

Imanishi played her first professional match in September 2008 in Kyoto . She won her first match in Komoro in 2010 . In 2011 she won her first tournament at the US $ 10,000 tournament in Mie . She caused a stir with her semi-finals at the $ 25,000 tournament in Mkinohara , where she defeated the top 300 players, Ksenia Lykina and Julia Glushko , before losing to Alexa Glatch in the semi-finals . Her greatest success to date was winning the title of the $ 25,000 tournament in Buxoro , Uzbekistan , where she defeated Nigina Abduraimova 7: 5 and 7: 5 in the final .

On the WTA Tour , Imanishi competed for the first time in the qualification for the HP Japan Women's Open Tennis 2012 , where she won her first round match against Rika Fujiwara 7: 5 and 6: 2, but lost her second round match against the top placed Swede Johanna in the qualification Larsson just in three sets with 6: 1, 6: 7 ⁶ and 0: 6. In qualifying for the BMW Malaysian Open 2014 , Duan Yingying clearly failed in the second qualifying round in two sets with 0: 6 and 1: 6. In qualifying for the Toray Pan Pacific Open 2014 , she also failed in the second round to Jarmila Gajdošová in three sets.

Miharu Imanishi took part twice in qualifying for a Grand Slam tournament. At the US Open 2014 she failed in her first qualifying match against the Czech Denisa Allertová in three sets with 3: 6, 7: 6, ³ and 4: 6. At the Australian Open 2015 she was defeated in the first qualifying round by Andrea Hlaváčková 3: 6 and 4: 6.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 30, 2011	Mie	ITF $ 10,000	carpet	Riko Sawayanagi	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	June 10, 2013	Buxoro	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nigina Abduraimova	7: 5, 7: 5
3.	July 14, 2014	Granby	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Stéphanie Foretz	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	2nd July 2017	Auburn	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nicole Gibbs	6: 3, 6: 2
5.	3rd February 2019	Jodhpur	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Jodie Anna Burrage	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	26th August 2017	Tsukuba	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Akiko Omae	Naiktha Bains Hsu Chieh-yu	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	2nd September 2017	Nanao	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Hsu Chieh-yu	Akari Inoue Miyabi Inoue	7: 6 7 , 6: 2
3.	20th October 2018	Hamamatsu	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Erina Hayashi	Momoko Kobori Ayano Shimizu	7: 5, 6: 4

Web links

• WTA profile Miharu Imanishi (English)
• ITF profile Miharu Imanishi (English)
• ITF junior profile Miharu Imanishi (English)
• Miharu Imanishi website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profiles. In: プ ロ テ ニ ス プ レ ー ヤ ー 今 西 美 晴 オ フ ィ ィ シ ャ ル サ イ ト . Retrieved March 27, 2016 (Japanese).