Misaki Doi

Misaki Doi
Misaki Doi 2019 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	29th April 1991 (age 29)
Size:	159 cm
Weight:	55 kg
1st professional season:	2006
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Christian Zahalka
Prize money:	$ 2,808,070
singles
Career record:	344: 303
Career title:	1 WTA , 7 ITF 2 WTA Challenger
Highest ranking:	30 (October 10, 2016)
Current placement:	76
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	122: 100
Career title:	2 WTA, 7 ITF 3 WTA Challenger
Highest ranking:	78 (October 6, 2014)
Current placement:	82
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Misaki Doi ( Japanese 土 居 美 咲 , Doi Misaki ; born April 29, 1991 in Ōamishirasato ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Misaki Doi started tennis at the age of six and enjoyed success as a junior, especially in doubles. In 2007 she and her compatriot Kurumi Nara reached the final of the junior competition at Wimbledon , and the following year at the Australian Open alongside Elena Bogdan . She gained her first experience in 2006 on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour , where she won her first professional title in 2009. Due to consistently good results at ITF tournaments in Japan, Doi quickly climbed the world rankings and ended the season in the top 200.

This entitles her to qualify for all four Grand.Slam tournaments the following year, with her first jumping into the main field in Paris ; in the first round she had no chance against Polona Hercog . In the fall, she received her first wildcard for the qualifying round for the WTA Premier tournament in Tokyo and then celebrated her biggest title to date at the ITF tournament in the $ 75,000 category in Toyota after beating Junri Namigata in the final . In 2011 she surprised as a qualifier by reaching the third round at Wimbledon , in which she failed because of Sabine Lisicki . The following year Doi was in Osaka for the first time in the semi-finals of a WTA tournament, but lost there to Heather Watson . After participating in another semi-final at the WTA Challenger in Taipei , she was listed in the top 100 in the world for the first time.

In 2013 Doi achieved his first main field success in Tokyo in the opening match against Varvara Lepchenko . Before that, she made it into the second round from qualifying in Beijing , where she was defeated by Sara Errani . Following a weaker season in 2014, in which she made four Grand Slam appearances only in London after a success over Elina Switolina , with whom she previously won her first WTA double title in Istanbul succeeded, she presented herself in excellent shape at the end of the 2015 season when, after five defeats in a row in Luxembourg after victories over Andrea Petković and Jelena Janković , she won her first and so far in her first final participation on the WTA Tour in the final against Mona Barthel single title. The triumph heralded the strongest phase in Doi's career, which reached another final at the WTA Challenger in Taipei at the end of the season.

The following year she was able to record successes on all continents and playing surfaces for the first time. At the beginning of the 2016 season in Kaohsiung she achieved her second WTA final, which she lost this time to Venus Williams , and won her first individual title at the WTA Challenger Series in San Antonio after a success over Anna-Lena Friedsam in the final. At the premier tournament in Rome she surprised for the first time on the clay court and moved into the quarter-finals after defeating Johanna Konta , where she had to admit defeat to Irina-Camelia Begu in straight sets. In Wimbledon Doi then reached her first Grand Slam round of 16 after a triumph over Karolína Plíšková , in which she lost to Angelique Kerber without a chance. She also competed at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she went into the second round in singles , where she was eliminated by Samantha Stosur . In doubles, she competed with Eri Hozumi and surprisingly prevailed in the opening round against the two-placed French Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia , before failing in their second match to Darja Kassatkina and Svetlana Kuznetsova from Russia . In autumn, despite an opening defeat at the US Open , she reached her best career position in 30th place and ended the season in the top 40 in the world for the first time in her career.

Since then, Doi has not been able to perform consistently well over the course of an entire season. In the following year, she could not even begin to defend her points, even lost in the first round of all four Grand Slam tournaments and fell out of the top 100 in the world rankings at the end of the year. Despite winning the ITF $ 100,000 tournament in Vancouver , she missed an immediate return to the top 100 in the world in 2018. It wasn't until 2019 that she was able to convince again on the WTA Tour with major field successes in Indian Wells and Miami . Due to good results such as the triumph at the WTA Challenger in Båstad , where she landed a two-set victory over Danka Kovinić in the final , as well as her third WTA final participation in the tournament in Hiroshima , where she lost to her compatriot Nao Hibino , with whom she then won the doubles competition won, she finished the 2019 season for the fifth year in the top 100 in the world.

Before the corona-related end of the season in March, she was in a final at the WTA Challenger in Indian Wells , but failed there in two sets against Irina-Camelia Begu. At the Australian Open , she made it into the second round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in doubles alongside Monica Niculescu . In the individual, however, she suffered her twelfth Grand Slam defeat in a row against qualifier Harriet Dart .

In 2011 Doi was nominated for the first time for the Japanese Fed Cup team . Since then she has played a total of 22 singles and doubles for her country, of which she won eleven (individual balance 10: 9).

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 28, 2009	Kofu	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	7: 5, 6: 2
2.	July 12, 2009	Tokyo	ITF $ 10,000	carpet	Sachie Ishizu	6: 1, 6: 4
3.	November 28, 2010	Tokyo	ITF $ 75,000 + H	Carpet (hall)	Junri Namigata	7: 5, 6: 2
4th	April 27, 2014	Seoul	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Misa Eguchi	6: 1, 7: 6 3
5.	January 11, 2015	Hong Kong	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Zhang Kailin	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	October 25, 2015	Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Mona Barthel	6: 4, 6: 7 7 , 6: 0
7th	19th March 2016	San Antonio	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Anna-Lena Friedsam	6: 4, 6: 2
8th.	17th June 2018	Kofu	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Lisa-Marie Rioux	6: 2, 6: 3
9.	19th August 2018	Vancouver	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Heather Watson	6: 7 4 , 6: 1, 6: 4
10.	14th July 2019	Båstad	WTA Challenger	sand	Danka Kovinić	6: 4, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 20, 2008	Miyazaki	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Kurumi Nara	Kimiko Date Crooked Tomoko Yonemura	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 7]
2.	May 9, 2010	Fukuoka	ITF $ 50,000	race	Kotomi Takahata	Marina Eraković Alexandra Panowa	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	3rd November 2013	Nanjing	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Xu Yifan	Jaroslawa Schwedowa Zhang Shuai	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	23rd November 2013	Toyota	ITF $ 75,000 + H	Carpet (hall)	Shūko Aoyama	Eri Hozumi Makoto Ninomiya	7: 6 1 , 2: 6, [11: 9]
5.	20th July 2014	Istanbul	WTA International	Hard court	Elina Switolina	Oksana Kalashnikova Paula Kania	6: 4, 6: 0
6th	January 27, 2018	Newport Beach	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Jil Teichmann	Jamie Loeb Rebecca Peterson	7: 6 4 , 1: 6, [10: 8]
7th	February 18, 2018	Surprise	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Yanina Wickmayer	Jacqueline Cako Caitlin Whoriskey	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8]
8th.	June 16, 2018	Kofu	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Misa Eguchi	Megumi Nishimoto Kotomi Takahata	6: 3, 6: 7 2 , [10: 8]
9.	15th July 2018	Honolulu	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Jessica Pegula	Taylor Johnson Ashley Lahey	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
10.	20th October 2018	Suzhou	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Nao Hibino	Luksika Kumkhum Peangtarn Plipuech	6: 2, 6: 3
11.	13th July 2019	Båstad	WTA Challenger	sand	Natalja Wichljanzewa	Alexa Guarachi Danka Kovinić	7: 5, 6: 7 4 , [10: 7]
12.	September 14, 2019	Hiroshima	WTA International	Hard court	Nao Hibino	Christina McHale Valeria Savinych	3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 4]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	2	1	-	1	1	Q1	1	1	2
French Open	1	-	-	1	1	2	1	1	Q1	1		2
Wimbledon	-	3	1	1	2	1	AF	1	-	-		AF
US Open	-	1	-	1	1	2	1	1	Q1	1		2

Double

competition	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	1	1	-	1	1	-	-	AF	AF
French Open	2	-	-	2	1	-	-		2
Wimbledon	-	-	1	2	2	-	-		2
US Open	-	2	-	1	2	-	-		2

World ranking positions at the end of the season

year	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
singles	613	200	158	106	97	89	122	60	38	119	139	74
Double	593	311	250	518	795	158	101	172	166	192	109	110

Web links

Commons : Misaki Doi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Misaki Doi (English)
• ITF profile Misaki Doi (English)
• ITF junior profile Misaki Doi (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Misaki Doi (English)
• Misaki Doi Official Website (English)