Shinobu Asagoe

Shinobu Asagoe
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	June 28, 1976
Size:	170 cm
1st professional season:	1998
Resignation:	2006
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 1,662,261
singles
Career record:	275: 208
Career title:	0 WTA , 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	21 (April 18, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	226: 148
Career title:	8 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking:	13 (May 8, 2006)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Shinobu Asagoe ( Japanese 浅 越 し の ぶ , Asagoe Shinobu ; born June 28, 1976 in Hirakata , Osaka Prefecture ) is a former Japanese tennis player .

Life

Born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, but from Kamigōri in Hyōgo Prefecture , she attended the Sonoda Gakuen High School ( 園田 学園 高校 ) in Amagasaki - a girls ’s high school - and then the Sonoda Gakuen Women's University ( 園田 学園 女子 大学 ) which she broke off prematurely. She also has an older brother.

Career

Shinobu Asagoe became a professional tennis player in 1997. In 2000, she reached the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time with 72nd place . She achieved the best scores of her career in 2005 with 21st place in singles and in 2006 with 13th place in doubles. On the WTA Tour she won eight doubles, but not a single title.

In 2004 she was in the quarterfinals of the US Open , it was her best result in a Grand Slam tournament .

Asagoe played 27 games for the Japanese Fed Cup team between 1999 and 2006 and celebrated 17 wins. In 2006 she ended her professional career.

Tournament victories

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 16, 2002	Birmingham	WTA Tier III	race	Els Callens	Kimberly Po-Messerli Nathalie Tauziat	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	October 5, 2002	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Nana Miyagi	Svetlana Kuznetsova Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 4
3.	January 16, 2004	Hobart	WTA Tier V	Hard court	Seiko Okamoto	Els Callens Barbara Schett	2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
4th	August 7, 2004	Montreal	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Ai Sugiyama	Liezel Huber tamarine tanasu yarn	6: 0, 6: 3
5.	October 10, 2004	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Katarina Srebotnik	Jennifer Hopkins Mashona Washington	6: 1, 6: 4
6th	January 8, 2005	Auckland	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Katarina Srebotnik	Leanne Baker Francesca Lubiani	6: 3, 6: 3
7th	October 16, 2005	Bangkok	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Gisela Dulko	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	6: 1, 7: 5
8th.	April 9, 2006	Amelia Island	WTA Tier II	sand	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Sania Mirza	6: 2, 6: 4

Web links

• WTA profile Shinobu Asagoe (English)
• ITF profile Shinobu Asagoe (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Shinobu Asagoe (English)
• their homepage (japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} プ ロ フ ィ ー ル (Eng. "Profile"). (No longer available online.) In: 浅 越 し の ぶ オ フ ィ シ ャ ル サ イ ト (Eng. "Shinobu Asagoe: Official Website"). Archived from the original on May 12, 2008 ; Retrieved September 25, 2009 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.