Shūko Aoyama

Shūko Aoyama
Shūko Aoyama at the 2013 French Open
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	December 19, 1987
Size:	154 cm
Weight:	53 kg
Playing hand:	Right, forehand and backhand with both hands
Trainer:	Ando Masayuki
Prize money:	$ 1,229,956
singles
Career record:	230: 199
Career title:	0 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	182 (February 9, 2015)
Current placement:	906
Double
Career record:	375: 228
Career title:	12 WTA, 26 ITF
Highest ranking:	21 (February 17, 2020)
Current placement:	22nd
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Shūko Aoyama ( Japanese 青山 修 子 , Aoyama Shūko ; born December 19, 1987 in Kanagawa ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Aoyama, who started tennis at the age of nine, prefers grass courts , according to the ITF .

Her greatest successes include the three double titles that she won at the WTA tournament in Washington in 2012 , 2013 and 2014 , as well as the title wins at the WTA tournament in Kuala Lumpur (2013) and the Japan Women's Open Tennis in Osaka (2014). She has also won four singles and 30 doubles titles at ITF tournaments.

In 2013 she reached her first semifinals in a Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon . At the side of the South African Chanelle Scheepers, she lost to the pairing Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai with 4: 6 and 3: 6.

Aoyama has played for the Japanese Fed Cup team since 2013 ; so far she has played 15 doubles games in the Fed Cup , of which she has won eleven.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1	June 13, 2010	Tokyo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Erika Takao	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
2	October 27, 2013	Hamamatsu	ITF $ 25,000	race	Eri Hozumi	7: 6 4 , 6: 1
3	October 25, 2015	Hamamatsu	ITF $ 25,000	race	Miyu Kato	6: 2, 6: 1
4th	October 23, 2016	Hamamatsu	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Ksenija Lykina	6: 4, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	August 3, 2012	Washington	WTA International	Hard court	Chang Kai-chen	Irina Falconi Chanelle Scheepers	7: 5, 6: 2
2.	March 3, 2013	Kuala Lumpur	WTA International	Hard court	Chang Kai-chen	Janette Husárová Shuai Zhang	6: 7 4 , 7: 6 4 , [14:12]
3.	3rd August 2013	Washington	WTA International	Hard court	Wera Duschewina	Eugenie Bouchard Taylor Townsend	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	3rd August 2014	Washington	WTA International	Hard court	Gabriela Dabrowski	Hiroki Kuwata Kurumi Nara	6: 1, 6: 2
5.	October 12, 2014	Osaka	WTA International	Hard court	Renata Voráčová	Lara Arruabarrena Vecino Tatjana Maria	6: 1, 6: 2
6th	18th September 2016	Tokyo	WTA International	Hard court	Makoto Ninomiya	Jocelyn Rae Anna Smith	6: 3, 6: 3
7th	5th August 2017	Washington	WTA International	Hard court	Renata Voráčová	Eugenie Bouchard Sloane Stephens	6: 3, 6: 2
8th.	16th September 2017	Tokyo	WTA International	Hard court	Yang Zhaoxuan	Monique Adamczak Storm Sanders	6: 0, 2: 6, [10: 5]
9.	June 16, 2019	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA International	race	Aleksandra Krunić	Lesley Kerkhove Bibiane Schoofs	7: 5, 6: 3
10.	October 12, 2019	Tianjin	WTA International	Hard court	Ena Shibahara	Nao Hibino Miyu Kato	6: 3, 7: 5
11.	19th October 2019	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Ena Shibahara	Kirsten Flipkens Bethanie Mattek-Sands	6: 2, 6: 1
12.	February 16, 2020	St. Petersburg	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Ena Shibahara	Kaitlyn Christian Alexa Guarachi	4: 6, 6: 0, [10: 3]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

Double

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

Web links

Commons : Shūko Aoyama  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Shuko Aoyama (English)
• ITF profile Shuko Aoyama (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Shuko Aoyama (English)
• Entry with the Japanese Tennis Association (Japanese)