Takao Suzuki

Takao Suzuki

Takao Suzuki 2008

Nation:

Japan

Birthday:

20th September 1976

Size:

175 cm

Weight:

73 kg

1st professional season:

1995

Playing hand:

Right

Trainer:

Claudio Pistolesi

Prize money:

$ 729,355

singles

Career record:

50:46

Highest ranking:

102 (November 23 1998)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	2R (2005)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	2R (2003)
US Open	1R (1999, 2004)

Double

Career record:

31:37

Career title:

1

Highest ranking:

119 (November 7 1995)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	AF (2005)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-

Last update of the infobox:
September 17th, 2018

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

Takao Suzuki ( Japanese 鈴木貴男 , Suzuki Takao ; born September 20, 1976 in Sapporo , Hokkaidō Prefecture ) is a Japanese tennis player .

life and career

Suzuki has been very successful during his career, especially on the ATP Challenger Tour . He won a total of 25 titles, 16 of them in singles and 9 more in doubles. So he was together with Lu Yen-hsun , who could also win 16 Challenger individual titles (now has 29), record holder in this category. On the World Tour , he celebrated his greatest success in 2005 with his victory in the doubles competition at the home tournament in Tokyo . Together with Satoshi Iwabuchi , he defeated Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry in two sets in the final . In Grand Slam tournaments he reached the second round in singles at the Australian Open in 2005 and 2003 at Wimbledon . A total of twice he took part in the Australian Open in doubles competition and reached the round of 16 in 2005.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Suzuki took part in the doubles competition for the Japanese team . Here, too, he already played together with Satoshi Iwabuchi, with whom he defeated the Venezuelans Juan Carlos Bianchi and Nicolás Pereira in three sets in the first round . In the second round, however, they were just as narrowly defeated by the Spaniards Sergi Bruguera and Tomás Carbonell .

From 1995 Suzuki plays for the Japanese Davis Cup team . With currently 41 games won and 31 games played, Suzuki is not only the most successful player in Japanese Davis Cup history, but also the record player in his country.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250 (1)
ATP Challenger Tour (24)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 29, 1997	India Mumbai	Hard court	United Kingdom Barry Cowan	6: 1, 6: 0
2.	July 5, 1998	United States Denver	Hard court	South Africa Justin Bower	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 4
3.	July 12, 1998	Canada Granby (1)	Hard court	United States David Caldwell	7: 6, 6: 3
4th	August 16, 1998	United States Binghamton (1)	Hard court	Italy Diego Nargiso	5: 2 up.
5.	July 16, 2000	CanadaGranby (2)	Hard court	United States Cecil Mamiit	6: 4, 6: 3
6th	July 30, 2000	United States Winnetka	Hard court	Korea South Yoon Yong-il	6: 2, 6: 4
7th	August 6, 2000	United States Lexington	Hard court	United States Justin Gimelstob	2: 1 up.
8th.	August 13, 2000	United StatesBinghamton (2)	Hard court	Korea South Yoon Yong-il	6: 1, 6: 4
9.	November 4, 2001	Japan Yokohama (1)	Carpet (i)	Japan Goichi Motomura	6: 2, 6: 7 ⁵ , 7: 6 ⁴
10.	March 3, 2002	Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City	Hard court	Croatia Mario Ančić	6: 4, 6: 3
11.	March 10, 2002	Japan Kyoto (1)	Carpet (i)	Croatia Mario Ančić	6: 7 ⁴ , 6: 2, 6: 2
12.	March 17, 2002	Japan Osaka	Hard court	Germany Bjorn Phau	5: 7, 6: 2, 7: 6 ⁴
13.	July 25, 2004	Brazil Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Ecuador Giovanni Lapentti	6: 4, 6: 3
14th	March 11, 2007	JapanKyoto (2)	Carpet (i)	Germany Dieter Kindlmann	2: 6, 7: 5, 6: 1
15th	July 29, 2007	CanadaGranby (3)	Hard court	Chinese Taipei Lu Yen-hsun	6: 4, 6: 4
16.	November 22, 2009	JapanYokohama (2)	Hard court	Austria Martin Fischer	6: 4, 7: 6 ⁵

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 8, 2005	Japan Tokyo	Hard court	Japan Satoshi Iwabuchi	Sweden Simon Aspelin Todd Perry Australia	5: 4 ³ , 5: 4 ¹³

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 14, 1996	Japan Nagoya	Hard court	Japan Satoshi Iwabuchi	Australia Ben Ellwood Peter Tramacchi Australia	7: 6, 7: 6
2.	March 15, 1998	Japan Kyoto	Carpet (i)	Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett	Mexico Óscar Ortiz Maurice Ruah Venezuela	4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
3.	July 12, 1998	Canada Granby	Hard court	Japan Goichi Motomura	Canada Bobby Kokavec Frédéric Niemeyer Canada	7: 6, 6: 1
4th	August 23, 1998	United States Bronx	Hard court	United States Jared Palmer	Czech Republic Ota Fukárek Gabriel Trifu Romania	6: 1, 6: 2
5.	November 7, 1999	Germany Aachen	Carpet (i)	Germany Lars Burgsmüller	Spain Juan Ignacio Carrasco Jairo Velasco Jr. Spain	7: 6, 6: 4
6th	February 25, 2001	Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City	Hard court	United States Eric Taino	Italy Filippo Messori Vincenzo Santopadre Italy	7: 6 ⁷ , 2: 6, 6: 4
7th	November 4, 2001	Japan Yokohama	Carpet (i)	Japan Mitsuru Takada	Switzerland Marco Chiudinelli Sebastian Jäger Germany	6: 3, 6: 4
8th.	July 27, 2003	United States Lexington	Hard court	Israel Jonathan Erlich	United States Matías Boeker Travis Parrott United States	6: 4, 6: 1
9.	November 30, 2003	Italy Milan	Carpet (i)	Italy Davide Sanguinetti	Poland Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski Poland	6: 4, 7: 5

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personal data
SURNAME	Suzuki, Takao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	鈴木貴男 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	20th September 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sapporo , Hokkaido Prefecture , Japan