Yurika Sema

Yurika Sema
2009 at the US Open
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	December 25, 1986
Size:	168 cm
Weight:	57 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Minoru Ueda
Prize money:	$ 315,569
singles
Career record:	338: 267
Career title:	0 WTA , 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	142 (November 30, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	215: 179
Career title:	0 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking:	150 (April 19, 2010)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Yurika Sema ( Japanese 瀬 間 友 里加 , Sema Yurika ; born December 25, 1986 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a former Japanese tennis player . Her younger sister Erika Sema also plays tennis professionally.

Career

Yurika Sema, who prefers hard courts, began playing tennis at the age of seven. So far she has won three singles and 14 doubles titles at the ITF Women's Circuit .

Only once, in 2009 at the US Open , she was able to qualify for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament ; however, it did not get past the first round.

She played her first game for the Japanese Fed Cup team on February 3, 2010 against Indonesia. She won the doubles together with Rika Fujiwara against Sandy Gumulya and Jessy Rompies 6: 2 and 6: 2. She won three of her four Fed Cup games.

Her last appearance on the women's tour was in October 2015 at an ITF tournament in Brisbane.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 31, 2004	Tokyo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Erika Takao	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 0
2.	June 7, 2009	Komoro	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Kurumi Nara	6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 4
3.	March 6, 2011	Sydney	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Rika Fujiwara	6: 4, 5: 7, 7: 6 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 28, 2007	Traralgon	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	Courtney Nagle Robin Stephenson	6: 2, 6: 2
2.	May 24, 2008	Nagano	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Erika Sema	Maya Kato Ayaka Maekawa	7: 6 1 , 6: 3
3.	May 31, 2008	Gunma	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Erika Sema	Chang Kai-chen Hwang I-hsuan	6: 3, 2: 6, [10: 7]
4th	October 18, 2009	Port Pirie	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	Bojana Bobusic Alenka Hubacek	6: 1, 5: 7, [10: 6]
5.	September 19, 2010	Darwin	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Kumiko Iijima	Alenka Hubacek and Tammi Patterson	6: 4, 6: 1
6th	September 26, 2010	Alice Springs	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	Alison Bai Emelyn Starr	7: 5, 6: 1
7th	July 10, 2011	Aschaffenburg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Pemra Özgen	Hana Birnerová Stephanie Vogt	6: 4, 7: 6 5
8th.	May 12, 2012	Tarakan	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Chiaki Okadaue	Trang Phoung Dai Huynh Lee So-ra	6: 4, 7: 6 4
9.	July 8, 2012	Middelburg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Junri Namigata	Bernice van de Velde Angelique van der Meet	6: 3, 6: 1
10.	February 22, 2013	Mildura	ITF $ 25,000	race	Xenia Lykina	Bojana Bobusic Emily Webley-Smith	6: 4, 6: 2
11.	May 31, 2013	Grado	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Zhou Yimiao	Viktorija Golubic Diāna Marcinkēviča	1: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
12.	June 7, 2013	Brescia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Monique Adamczak	Réka Luca Jani Irina Chromatschowa	6: 4, 7: 5
13.	4th October 2013	Perth	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	Monique Adamczak and Tammi Patterson	7: 5, 6: 1
14th	October 27, 2013	Bendigo	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	Monique Adamczak Olivia Rogowska	3: 6, 6: 2, [11: 9]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2009	Career
Australian Open	-	-
French Open	-	-
Wimbledon	-	-
US Open	1	1

Web links

Commons : Yurika Sema  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Yurika Sema (English)
• ITF profile of Yurika Sema (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Yurika Sema (English)
• Entry with the Japanese Tennis Association (Japanese)
• Profile at your agency LesPros Entertainment (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erika Sema. (No longer available online.) LesPros Entertainment, archived from the original on December 21, 2013 ; accessed on September 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.