Rika Fujiwara

Rika Fujiwara

Fujiwara 2006 at the Australian Open

Nation:

Japan

Birthday:

September 19, 1981

Size:

155 cm

1st professional season:

1999

Resignation:

2020

Playing hand:

Right, two-handed backhand

Trainer:

Shinichi and Michiko Fujiwara (parents)

Prize money:

$ 882,018

singles

Career record:

482: 373

Career title:

0 WTA , 9 ITF

Highest ranking:

84 (August 22, 2005)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	1R (2006)
French Open	1R (2005)
Wimbledon	1R (2005, 2008)
US Open	1R (2005)

Double

Career record:

394: 235

Career title:

1 WTA, 35 ITF

Highest ranking:

13 (November 11 2002)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	VF (2002)
French Open	HF (2002)
Wimbledon	AF (2002)
US Open	AF (2006)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	1R (2003)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	AF (2002)
US Open	-

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Rika Fujiwara ( Japanese 藤原里華 , Fujiwara Rika ; born September 19, 1981 in Fujisawa , Kanagawa ) is a former Japanese tennis player .

Career

Fujiwara, whose professional career began in 1999, achieved her best placings in the world rankings with rank 84 (August 2005) in singles and 13th (November 2002) in doubles . So far she has won nine singles and 33 doubles titles at ITF tournaments.

In 2002 she and her doubles partner Shinobu Asagoe reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open , which they lost to Martina Hingis and Anna Kurnikowa . In the same year Fujiwara reached the semi-finals of the French Open with her compatriot Ai Sugiyama , in which they had to admit defeat to Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs with 1: 6, 7: 6 and 2: 6.

She won her only WTA title in 2012 at the hard court tournament in Copenhagen alongside her compatriot Kimiko Date Krumm .

She also played 28 games for the Japanese Fed Cup team from 2001 to 2012 , where she celebrated 23 wins.

On March 4, 2020, she announced her retirement.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 10, 2001	United Kingdom Surbiton	ITF $ 25,000	race	Puerto Rico Kristina Brandi	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	May 18, 2003	Japan Nagano	ITF $ 10,000	race	Japan Ayami Takase	7: 5, 6: 0
3.	July 18, 2004	Japan Gunma	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Japan Ayami Takase	6: 1, 6: 2
4th	September 12, 2004	Japan Ibaraki	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Japan Shiho Hisamatsu	4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 0
5.	May 27, 2007	Japan Nagano	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Japan Natsumi Hamamura	7: 5, 6: 2
6th	January 27, 2008	United States Waikoloa	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Germany Sandra Klösel	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
7th	November 22, 2009	India Pune	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Serbia Bojana Jovanovski	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 3
8th.	May 15, 2011	Japan Kurume	ITF $ 50,000	race	Australia Monique Adamczak	6: 3, 6: 1
9.	December 14, 2013	India Navi Mumbai	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Poland Magda Linette	2: 6, 7: 6 ⁵ , 7: 6 ⁴

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	April 15, 2012	Denmark Copenhagen	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Japan Kimiko Date-Krumm	Sweden Sofia Arvidsson Kaia Kanepi Estonia	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 5]

Web links

Commons : Rika Fujiwara - collection of images, videos and audio files

WTA profile of Rika Fujiwara (English)
ITF profile Rika Fujiwara (English)
Fed Cup stats by Rika Fujiwara (English)
Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

↑ I'm officially retiring from competitive tennis. In: instagram.com. March 4, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fujiwara, Rika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	藤原里華 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fujisawa , Kanagawa , Japan

[1] I'm officially retiring from competitive tennis. In: instagram.com. March 4, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 .