Shiho Akita

Shiho Akita
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	18th January 1990 (age 30)
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Brenton Barker
Prize money:	$ 124,485
singles
Career record:	312: 223
Career title:	0 WTA , 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	221 (May 8, 2017)
Current placement:	390
Double
Career record:	62:75
Career title:	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	369 (September 12, 2016)
Current placement:	738
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Shiho Akita ( Japanese 秋田 史 帆 , Akita Shiho ; born January 18, 1990 in Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Akita started playing tennis at the age of seven, her preferred surface is the hard court. So far she has won six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit . She achieved her best placement in the individual world rankings in April 2011 with place 255.

Akita played her first professional tournament in July 2006 at the $ 25,000 tournament in Nagoya , where the then 16-year-old immediately advanced to the round of 16 and lost to Chuang Chia-jung with 2: 6 and 3: 6. In June 2008, she was at a $ 10,000 hard court tournament in Tokyo for the first time in a final, in which she was defeated by Kimiko Date-Krumm 3-6 and 2-6. A month later, both players faced each other again in the four-part finals of the $ 25,000 tournament in Obihiro ; Again, Date-Krumm clearly prevailed 6: 3 and 6: 0. In May 2010 she reached the semi-finals at the $ 50,000 tournament in Fukuoka , where she was defeated by Austrian Nikola Hofmanova 5-7 and 3-6 . In August of the same year she was only defeated in the final of the $ 25,000 tournament in Tsukuba with 4: 6 and 1: 6 to the Thai Noppawan Lertcheewakarn . Akita achieved her greatest success to date in November 2015 when she reached the quarter-finals of the Ando Securities Open Tokyo . There she had to give up against her compatriot Nao Hibino in the third set at 6: 1, 3: 6 and 0: 2 due to injury. In doubles, she even reached the semi-finals at the same tournament with her partner Akari Inoue , which she lost to Eri Hozumi and Kurumi Nara with 2: 6 and 6: 7 ² .

On the WTA Tour , Akita competed in qualifying for the KDB Korea Open 2012 . She won her first round match against Katalin Marosi 6: 4 and 6: 3, before losing to Gréta Arn with 0: 6 and 3: 6. In qualifying for the PTT Pattaya Open 2012 , she lost in round one against Sacha Jones 6: 1, 1: 6 and 4: 6. In doubles in the same tournament she reached the quarterfinals with her partner Nicole Rottmann , in which they were defeated by Eleni Daniilidou and Tamarine Tanasugarn 2: 6 and 0: 6.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 8, 2009	Niigata	ITF $ 10,000	carpet	Remi Tezuka	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	July 10, 2010	Pattaya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Nudnida Luangnam	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	June 23, 2013	Tokyo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Akiko Yonemura	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	4th September 2016	Noto	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Ayano Shimizu	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	November 10, 2019	Antalya	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Magdaléna Pantůčková	6: 2, 6: 4
6th	March 1, 2020	Perth	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Irina Ramialison	6: 3, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	May 25, 2013	Karuizawa	ITF $ 25,000	race	Sachie Ishizu	Miki Miyamura Erika Takao	7: 5, 7: 6 8
2.	January 24, 2015	Sharm El Sheikh	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Yūki Tanaka	Kajsa Rinaldo Persson Caroline Rohde-Moe	6: 2, 7: 6 3

Web links

• WTA profile Shiho Akita (English)
• ITF profile Shiho Akita (English)
• ITF junior profile Shiho Akita (English)