Yūki Tanaka

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Yūki Tanaka Tennis player
Nation: JapanJapan Japan
Birthday: 7th March 1990 (age 30)
Size: 160 cm
Playing hand: Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Mitsuru Motoi
Prize money: $ 93,927
singles
Career record: 242: 205
Career title: 0 WTA , 1 ITF
Highest ranking: 308 (September 11, 2017)
Current placement: 498
Double
Career record: 129: 118
Career title: 0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking: 214 (August 29, 2016)
Current placement: 1375
Last update of the infobox:
August 26, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Yūki Tanaka ( Japanese 田中 優 季 , Tanaka Yūki; born March 7, 1990 in Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Tanaka, who started playing tennis at the age of nine, prefers the hard court. She studied at Waseda University and began her professional career in 2012. She has won one singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit so far . She achieved her best world rankings in December 2015 with place 361 in singles and in August 2016 with place 214 in doubles.

Her first professional match played Tanaka in July 2006 in Nagoya , where she was able to win her first two games and failed in the first round of the main draw. She achieved her first placement in the Top 1000 in 2010 when she made it to the quarter-finals at Mie's three tournaments and to the semi- finals in Tokyo and Niigata . In August and September 2012, she made the next jump into the top 500 in the world rankings with finals and semifinals at the four tournaments in Bursa , Istanbul , Noto and Kyoto . Her best result came when she made it to the semi-finals at the $ 25,000 tournament in Noto, where she lost to her compatriot Misa Eguchi with 1: 6, 6: 4 and 2: 6.

Tanaka played for the first time on the WTA Tour in qualifying for the KIA Korea Open 2014 ; they defeated there first Lee Ya-hsuan , but then lost in round two with 0: 6 and 3: 6 against Jelisaveta Kulitschkowa .

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. March 23, 2013 JapanJapan Kofu ITF $ 10,000 Hard court JapanJapan Hiroko Kuwata 6: 3, 6: 1

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. June 23, 2012 JapanJapan Mie ITF $ 10,000 race JapanJapan Hiroko Kuwata JapanJapan Akari Inoue Kaori Onishi
JapanJapan  		6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 5]
2. July 13, 2014 GermanyGermany Aschaffenburg ITF $ 25,000 sand JapanJapan Rika Fujiwara NetherlandsNetherlands Lesley Kerkhove Xenia Knoll
SwitzerlandSwitzerland  		6: 1, 6: 4
3. January 24, 2015 EgyptEgypt Sharm El Sheikh ITF $ 10,000 Hard court JapanJapan Shiho Akita SwedenSweden Kajsa Rinaldo Persson Caroline Rohde-Moe
NorwayNorway  		6: 2, 7: 6 3
4th February 7, 2015 EgyptEgypt Sharm El Sheikh ITF $ 10,000 Hard court RussiaRussia Anna Morgina UkraineUkraine Weronika Kapschaj Melanie Klaffner
AustriaAustria  		4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 6]
5. March 13, 2015 AustraliaAustralia Mildura ITF $ 15,000 race JapanJapan Hiroko Kuwata China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Tian Ran Wang Yan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		6: 2, 6: 0
6th April 22, 2017 TurkeyTurkey Antalya ITF $ 15,000 sand FinlandFinland Emma Laine BelgiumBelgium Marie Benoit Ysaline Bonaventure
BelgiumBelgium  		3: 6, 6: 1, [10: 4]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profiles. In: プ ロ テ ニ ス プ レ イ ヤ ー 田中 優 季 オ フ ィ シ ャ ル ブ ロ グ . Retrieved March 27, 2016 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Tanaka, Yūki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田中 優 季 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Aichi Prefecture , Japan