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Junri Namigata

Junri Namigata (波形 純理, Namigata Junri, born 5 July 1982) is a Japanese inactive professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 105, which she reached in February 2011.[2] Her career-high doubles ranking is 101, achieved May 2015.[2]

Junri Namigata
Namigata at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships
Native name波形純理
Country (sports) Japan
ResidenceSaitama, Japan
Born (1982-07-05) 5 July 1982 (age 41)
Koshigaya, Japan
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro2005
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
CollegeWaseda University
CoachToshihisa Tsuchihashi[1]
Prize moneyUS$639,251
Singles
Career record495–411 (54.6%)
Career titles7 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 105 (28 February 2011)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2011)
French Open1R (2011)
WimbledonQ3 (2010, 2011)
US OpenQ3 (2006, 2010)
Doubles
Career record336–231 (59.3%)
Career titles1 WTA Challenger, 25 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 101 (25 May 2015)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2017)
Wimbledon1R (2008)
Team competitions
Fed Cup5–0
Last updated on: 15 April 2024.

Early life and amateur career edit

Namigata was born in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture and started playing tennis when she was six years old. She completed elementary school at a school in Koshigaya and won a regional tournament when in the third grade.[3] She attended Fujimura Girls' Junior High School and Horikoshi High School in Tokyo.[1] In September 1997, when still in junior high school, she made her first appearance in an ITF doubles tournament.[4] In her first year of high school,[3] she reached the round of 16 at the All Japan Tennis Championship[5] and won the All Japan Junior Championship title in her final year of high school.[3] She enrolled in the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University and in 2001 won the intercollegiate doubles title, was runner-up in the singles title, and was a member of the Waseda team that took out the team event.[3] In 2004, she won the intercollegiate singles title[3] and also won her first ITF doubles titles in October.[4]

Professional career edit

Namigata turned professional in August 2005,[1] after graduating from Waseda in April of the same year. Her goal was to finish her first year as a professional ranked in the top 200;[3] she finished 2006 ranked 162 in singles.[2] The first of her six singles titles came in July 2007.

In July 2014, Namigata won her first WTA event, the doubles tournament of the inaugural Jiangxi International Open, partnering with Chuang Chia-jung.[6] 2014 was the most successful year of her career thus far, winning three doubles titles and her first singles title on the ITF Circuit since 2010.[2] She finished the year ranked 196 in singles and 145 in doubles, returning to the top 200 in each category for the first time since 2011.[2]

Grand Slam appearances edit

In singles, Namigata has qualified for two major tournaments so far. At the 2011 Australian Open, she lost to Canadian Rebecca Marino in the first round.[7] Later in the year, at the French Open, she lost in the first round to Aleksandra Wozniak.[8]

In doubles, she qualified for the 2008 Wimbledon Championships with fellow Japanese player Ayumi Morita, losing in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova and Selima Sfar.[4]

In 2017, Namigata and Chan Chin-wei received wildcard entry into the Australian Open, losing in the first round to Tatjana Maria and Pauline Parmentier.[9]

Fed Cup edit

Namigata represented Japan in the Asia/Oceania group of the 2011 Fed Cup.[10]

WTA Tour career finals edit

Doubles: 1 (runner–up) edit

Legend
Grand Slam
WTA 1000
WTA 500
WTA 250 (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2007 Bangkok Open, Thailand Tier III[a] Hard   Ayumi Morita   Sun Tiantian
  Yan Zi 		w/o

WTA 125 finals edit

Doubles: 1 (title) edit

Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2014 Jiangxi International, China Hard   Chuang Chia-jung   Chan Chin-wei
  Xu Yifan 		7–6(7–4), 6–3

ITF Circuit finals edit

Singles: 23 (7 titles, 16 runner–ups) edit

Legend
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jul 2004 ITF Inchon, South Korea 10,000 Hard   Lee Eun-jeong 0–6, 6–3, 0–6
Loss 0–2 May 2006 ITF Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 25,000 Hard   Katarína Kachlíková 4–6, 4–6
Win 1–2 Jul 2007 ITF Miyazaki, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Zhang Shuai 6–4, 6–2
Loss 1–3 Oct 2007 ITF Hamanako, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Yanina Wickmayer 6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Loss 1–4 Apr 2009 ITF Changwon, South Korea 25,000 Hard   Elena Baltacha 3–6, 1–6
Win 2–4 May 2009 ITF Gunma, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Hsu Wen-hsin 6–1, 6–1
Win 3–4 Jul 2009 ITF Miyazaki, Japan 10,000 Carpet   Shiho Akita 7–6(6), 6–2
Loss 3–5 Aug 2009 ITF Obihiro, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Kurumi Nara 6–7(4), 6–4, 4–6
Win 4–5 May 2010 Fukuoka International, Japan 50,000 Carpet   Nikola Hofmanova 6–1, 6–2
Loss 4–6 May 2010 ITF Kusatsu, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Akiko Yonemura 4–6, 6–7(4)
Win 5–6 Aug 2010 Beijing Challenger, China 75,000 Hard   Zhang Shuai 7–6(3), 6–2
Loss 5–6 Nov 2010 Toyota World Challenge, Japan 75,000 Carpet (i)   Misaki Doi 7–5, 6–2
Loss 5–8 Oct 2011 ITF Hamanako, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Karolína Plíšková 2–6, 6–7(4)
Loss 5–9 May 2012 ITF Karuizawa, Japan 25,000 Grass   Marta Sirotkina 4–6, 6–2, 4–6
Loss 5–10 May 2013 ITF Karuizawa, Japan 25,000 Grass   Eri Hozumi 6–7(5), 3–6
Loss 5–11 Jun 2014 ITF Changwon, South Korea 25,000 Hard   Hong Hyun-hui 6–2, 4–6, 3–6
Loss 5–12 Jun 2014 ITF Kashiwa, Japan 10,000 Hard   Riko Sawayanagi 4–6, 6–7(5)
Win 6–12 Aug 2014 ITF Tsukuba, Japan 25,000 Hard   Chang Kai-chen 6–0, 7–6(3)
Loss 6–13 Oct 2014 ITF Hamamatsu, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Riko Sawayanagi 6–2, 2–6, 3–6
Loss 6–14 May 2017 ITF Karuizawa, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Ayano Shimizu 6–0, 4–6, 4–6
Loss 6–15 Sep 2017 ITF Nanao, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Carol Zhao 3–6, 2–6
Loss 6–16 Oct 2018 ITF Makinohara, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Momoko Kobori 2–6, 3–6
Win 7–16 Sep 2019 ITF Nanao, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Ayano Shimizu 7–6(5), 4–6, 6–2

Doubles: 52 (25 titles, 27 runner–ups) edit

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75/80,000 tournaments
$50/60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Oct 2004 ITF Tokyo, Japan 10,000 Hard   Kumiko Iijima   Maki Arai
  Akiko Yonemura 		6–3, 6–1
Win 2–0 Jul 2005 ITF Hamilton, Canada 25,000 Clay   Kumiko Iijima   Lauren Barnikow
  Lauren Breadmore 		6–7(4), 6–2, 6–2
Loss 2–1 Jul 2005 Lexington Challenger, United States 50,000 Hard   Kumiko Iijima   Vilmarie Castellvi
  Samantha Reeves 		2–6, 1–6
Loss 2–2 Feb 2006 ITF Sydney, Australia 25,000 Hard   Ayumi Morita   Chan Yung-jan
  Chuang Chia-jung 		2–6, 1–6
Win 3–2 May 2006 ITF Nagano, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Kumiko Iijima   Remi Tezuka
  Tomoko Yonemura 		6–3, 7–6(3)
Win 4–2 Aug 2006 ITF Tokachi, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Kumiko Iijima   Shiho Hisamatsu
  Remi Tezuka 		7–5, 6–4
Win 5–2 Sep 2006 ITF Ibaraki, Japan 25,000 Hard   Kumiko Iijima   Natsumi Hamamura
  Ayaka Maekawa 		6–7(4), 6–3, 6–2
Loss 5–3 Apr 2007 ITF Jackson, United States 25,000 Clay   Yurika Sema   Eva Hrdinová
  Michaela Paštíková 		6–7(5), 6–7(3)
Loss 5–4 May 2007 Fukuoka International, Japan 50,000 Carpet   Rika Fujiwara   Ayumi Morita
  Akiko Yonemura 		2–6, 2–6
Win 6–4 Jul 2007 ITF Nagoya, Japan 25,000 Hard   Akiko Yonemura   Chang Kyung-mi
  Kim Jin-hee 		6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Win 7–4 Aug 2007 ITF Obihiro, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Kumiko Iijima   Ayumi Morita
  Akiko Yonemura 		7–6(3), 6–0
Win 8–4 Sep 2007 ITF Tokyo, Japan 50,000 Hard   Rika Fujiwara   Kumiko Iijima
  Akiko Yonemura 		3–6, 7–6(4), [10–5]
Loss 8–5 Aug 2008 Vancouver Open, Canada 50,000 Hard   Christina Fusano   Carly Gullickson
  Nicole Kriz 		7–6(4), 1–6, [5–10]
Win 9–5 Oct 2008 ITF Makinohara, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Natsumi Hamamura   Chae Kyung-yee
  Han Xinyun 		7–5, 7–6(4)
Loss 9–6 Oct 2008 ITF Hamanako, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Akiko Yonemura   Kanae Hisami
  Yurina Koshino 		5–7, 4–6
Loss 9–7 May 2009 Fukuoka International, Japan 50,000 Carpet   Ayaka Maekawa   Akiko Yonemura
  Tomoko Yonemura 		2–6, 7–6(3), [3–10]
Win 10–7 May 2009 ITF Nagano, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Akiko Yonemura   Tomoyo Takagishi
  Varatchaya Wongteanchai 		6–1, 6–4
Loss 10–8 Apr 2010 ITF Incheon, South Korea 25,000 Hard   Misaki Doi   Irina-Camelia Begu
  Erika Sema 		0–6, 6–7(8)
Loss 10–9 Apr 2010 ITF Gimhae, South Korea 25,000 Hard   Misaki Doi   Chang Kyung-mi
  Lee Jin-a 		6–1, 4–6, [8–10]
Loss 10–10 Apr 2010 ITF Changwon, South Korea 25,000 Hard   Misaki Doi   Chang Kyung-mi
  Lee Jin-a 		7–5, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss 10–11 May 2011 Fukuoka International, Japan 50,000 Carpet   Aiko Nakamura   Shuko Aoyama
  Rika Fujiwara 		6–7(3), 0–6
Loss 10–12 Oct 2011 ITF Makinohara, Japan 25,000 Carpet   Akiko Yonemura   Shuko Aoyama
  Kotomi Takahata 		2–6, 5–7
Loss 10–13 Mar 2012 ITF Ipswich, Australia 25,000 Clay   Shuko Aoyama   Monique Adamczak
  Sandra Zaniewska 		5–7, 4–6
Win 11–13 Apr 2012 ITF Bundaberg, Australia 25,000 Clay   Shuko Aoyama   Sacha Jones
  Sally Peers 		6–1, 7–5
Win 12–13 Jul 2012 ITF Middelburg, Netherlands 25,000 Clay   Yurika Sema   Bernice van de Velde
  Angelique van der Meet 		6–3, 6–1
Loss 12–14 Apr 2013 ITF Wenshan, China 50,000 Hard   Rika Fujiwara   Miki Miyamura
  Varatchaya Wongteanchai 		5–7, 3–6
Win 13–14 May 2013 Fukuoka International, Japan 50,000 Carpet   Erika Sema   Rika Fujiwara
  Akiko Omae 		7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
Win 14–14 Oct 2013 ITF Hamamatsu, Japan 25,000 Grass   Shuko Aoyama   Belinda Bencic
  Sofia Shapatava 		6–4, 6–3
Win 15–14 Mar 2014 ITF Nishitama, Japan 10,000 Hard   Akiko Yonemura   Choi Ji-hee
  Akari Inoue 		6–2, 6–4
Loss 15–15 May 2014 Kurume Cup, Japan 50,000 Grass   Akiko Yonemura   Jarmila Gajdošová
  Arina Rodionova 		4–6, 2–6
Win 16–15 May 2014 ITF Karuizawa, Japan 25,000 Grass   Akiko Yonemura   Kanae Hisami
  Chiaki Okadaue 		6–2, 7–5
Win 17–15 May 2014 ITF Changwon, Korea 25,000 Hard   Chuang Chia-jung   Lee Ye-ra
  Kim So-jung 		7–6(5), 6–0
Loss 17–16 Nov 2014 Toyota World Challenge, Japan 75,000 Carpet (i)   Shuko Aoyama   Eri Hozumi
  Makoto Ninomiya 		3–6, 5–7
Loss 17–17 Feb 2015 Burnie International, Australia 50,000 Hard   Han Xinyun   Irina Falconi
  Petra Martić 		2–6, 4–6
Win 18–17 Feb 2015 Launceston International, Australia 50,000 Hard   Han Xinyun   Wang Yafan
  Yang Zhaoxuan 		6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Loss 18–18 Mar 2015 ITF Quanzhou, China 50,000 Hard   Hiroko Kuwata   Eri Hozumi
  Makoto Ninomiya 		3–6, 7–6(2), [2–10]
Loss 18–19 May 2015 Fukuoka International, Japan 50,000 Carpet   Eri Hozumi   Naomi Broady
  Kristýna Plíšková 		3–6, 4–6
Loss 18–20 May 2015 Kurume Cup, Japan 50,000 Grass   Eri Hozumi   Makoto Ninomiya
  Riko Sawayanagi 		6–7(10), 3–6
Win 19–20 Feb 2017 ITF Perth, Australia 25,000 Hard   Riko Sawayanagi   Irina Bara
  Prarthana Thombare 		7–6(5), 4–6, [11–9]
Win 20–20 Feb 2017 ITF Perth, Australia 25,000 Hard   Riko Sawayanagi   Tammi Patterson
  Olivia Rogowska 		4–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Win 21–20 May 2017 Fukuoka International, Japan 60,000 Carpet   Kotomi Takahata   Erina Hayashi
  Robu Kajitani 		6–0, 6–7(3), [10–7]
Loss 21–21 Nov 2017 ITF Tokyo Open, Japan 100,000 Hard   Eri Hozumi   Yuki Naito
  Rika Fujiwara 		1–6, 3–6
Win 22–21 Nov 2017 Toyota World Challenge, Japan 60,000 Carpet (i)   Ksenia Lykina   Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
  Peangtarn Plipuech 		3–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Loss 22–22 Jan 2018 Playford International, Australia 25,000 Hard   Erika Sema   Dalila Jakupović
  Irina Khromacheva 		6–2, 5–7, [5–10]
Loss 22–23 June 2018 ITF Singapore 25,000 Hard   Miyabi Inoue   Zoe Hives
  Olivia Tjandramulia 		4–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Win 23–23 Jun 2019 ITF Hong Kong 25,000 Hard   Abigail Tere-Apisah   Erina Hayashi
  Momoko Kobori 		6–3, 2–6, [10–6]
Win 24–23 Jun 2019 ITF Jakarta, Indonesia 25,000 Hard   Haruka Kaji   Beatrice Gumulya
  Jessy Rompies 		6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
Win 25–23 Jul 2019 Challenger de Granby, Canada 80,000 Hard   Haruka Kaji   Quinn Gleason
  Ingrid Neel 		7–6(5), 5–7, [10–8]
Loss 25–24 Nov 2019 ITF Tokyo Open, Japan 100,000 Hard   Haruka Kaji   Choi Ji-hee
  Han Na-lae 		3–6, 3–6
Loss 25–25 Sep 2022 ITF Yeongwol, South Korea 15,000 Hard   Riko Sawayanagi   Back Da-yeon
  Lee Eun-hye 		5–7, 6–3, [11–13]
Loss 25–26 Nov 2022 ITF Tokyo Open, Japan 60,000 Hard (i)   Mai Hontama   Hsieh Yu-chieh
  Jessy Rompies 		4–6, 3–6
Loss 25–27 May 2023 ITF Kurume, Japan 60,000 Grass   Funa Kozaki   Talia Gibson
  Yafan Wang 		3–6, 3–6

Notes edit

  1. ^ The WTA Tier III tournaments, WTA Tier IV tournaments and WTA Tier V tournaments were reclassified as WTA International tournaments in 2009 and later as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "波形 純理" [Namigata Junri] (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e "ITF Tennis – Pro Circuit – Player Profile – NAMIGATA, Junri (JPN)". Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "目指すはプロテニスプレーヤー！" [My goal is a pro tennis player!] (in Japanese). 4 November 2004. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  4. ^ a b c "Junri Namagata". Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. ^ "第73回 全日本テニス選手権大会" [73rd All Japan Tennis Championships] (PDF). November 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Peng Ends Liu Dream in Nanchang Final". 27 July 2014. Archived from the original on 30 July 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  7. ^ Nakao, Yuriko (17 January 2011). "Vancouver's Marino advances to second round at Australian Open". Toronto Star. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  8. ^ "Scores / Stats". Archived from the original on 31 May 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  9. ^ "Australian Open 2017 Women's Doubles" (PDF). Australian Open. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Fed Cup – Player profile – Junri NAMIGATA (JPN)". Retrieved 27 October 2015.

External links edit

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