Yuka Yoshida

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Yuka Yoshida Tennis player
Yuka Yoshida
Yuka Yoshida was the captain of the Japanese Fed Cup team against Argentina in 2014
Nation: JapanJapan Japan
Birthday: April 1, 1976
Size: 160 cm
1st professional season: 1994
Resignation: 2005
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 669,605
singles
Career record: 274: 262
Career title: 0 WTA , 5 ITF
Highest ranking: 52 (September 8 1997)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (1997, 1998)
French Open 2R (1997)
Wimbledon 2R (1997)
US Open 2R (1997)
Double
Career record: 188: 174
Career title: 3 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking: 51 (May 3 1999)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (2001)
French Open 2R (1997, 1999)
Wimbledon 2R (1997)
US Open VF (1998)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Yuka Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 友 佳 , Yoshida Yuka ; born April 1, 1976 in Tottori Prefecture ) is a former Japanese tennis player .

Life

Yoshida, who comes from Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture , graduated from Tokyo City University , she studied at the Faculty of Environmental and Information Sciences.

Career

She started tennis at the age of seven and preferred hard courts. Your trainer was the tennis player Sonoe Yonezawa ( 米 沢 そ の え ).

On the WTA Tour she won three double titles in her professional career. Her greatest success was her quarterfinal participation in the 1998 doubles competition at the US Open . From 1998 to 2004 she played 15 games for the Japanese Fed Cup team , of which she won nine.

In 2005 Yoshida ended her tennis career.

Since 2014 she has been the leader of the Japanese Fed Cup team .

Tournament victories

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. April 16, 1995 JapanJapan Tokyo WTA Tier III Hard court JapanJapan Miho Saeki JapanJapan Kyōko Nagatsuka Ai Sugiyama
JapanJapan  		6: 7, 6: 4, 7: 6
2. November 24, 1996 ThailandThailand Pattaya WTA Tier IV Hard court JapanJapan Miho Saeki SloveniaSlovenia Tina Križan Nana Miyagi
JapanJapan  		6: 2, 6: 3
3. February 19, 2005 United StatesUnited States Memphis WTA Tier III Hard court (hall) JapanJapan Miho Saeki United StatesUnited States Laura Granville Abigail Spears
United StatesUnited States  		6: 3, 6: 4

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Career
Australian Open 1 - 2 2 1 - 2
French Open - - 2 1 - - 2
Wimbledon - - 2 1 - 1 2
US Open - - 2 1 - - 2

Double

competition 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Career
Australian Open - 2 1 1 1 1 AF - - AF
French Open 1 - 2 1 2 1 1 - - 2
Wimbledon - 1 2 1 1 1 1 - 1 2
US Open - 1 1 VF 1 1 1 - - VF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. WTA and ITF profile
  2. ↑ a b Profiles. In: 吉 田友佳 の オ フ ィ シ ャ ル サ イ ト . Retrieved October 9, 2011 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Yoshida, Yuka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吉 田友佳 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Tottori Prefecture , Japan