Yūki Tanaka
Yūki Tanaka | |
Nation: | 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 |
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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 |
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1. | March 23, 2013 | Kofu | ITF $ 10,000 | Hard court | Hiroko Kuwata | 6: 3, 6: 1 |
Double
No. | date | competition | category | Topping | Partner | Final opponents | Result |
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1. | June 23, 2012 | Mie | ITF $ 10,000 | race | Hiroko Kuwata |
Akari Inoue Kaori Onishi |
6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 5] |
2. | July 13, 2014 | Aschaffenburg | ITF $ 25,000 | sand | Rika Fujiwara |
Lesley Kerkhove Xenia Knoll |
6: 1, 6: 4 |
3. | January 24, 2015 | Sharm El Sheikh | ITF $ 10,000 | Hard court | Shiho Akita |
Kajsa Rinaldo Persson Caroline Rohde-Moe |
6: 2, 7: 6 3 |
4th | February 7, 2015 | Sharm El Sheikh | ITF $ 10,000 | Hard court | Anna Morgina |
Weronika Kapschaj Melanie Klaffner |
4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 6] |
5. | March 13, 2015 | Mildura | ITF $ 15,000 | race | Hiroko Kuwata |
Tian Ran Wang Yan |
6: 2, 6: 0 |
6th | April 22, 2017 | Antalya | ITF $ 15,000 | sand | Emma Laine |
Marie Benoit Ysaline Bonaventure |
3: 6, 6: 1, [10: 4] |
Web links
- WTA profile Yūki Tanaka (English)
- ITF profile Yūki Tanaka (English)
- ITF junior profile Yūki Tanaka (English)
- Blog (japanese)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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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 |