Junri Namigata
Junri Namigata (波形 純理, Namigata Junri, born 5 July 1982) is a Japanese 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, which she reached in May 2015.[2]
Namigata competing in the first round of the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying | |
Native name | 波形純理 |
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Country (sports) | |
Residence | Saitama, Japan |
Born | Koshigaya Japan | 5 July 1982
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Turned pro | 2005 |
Plays | Right (double-handed backhand) |
College | Waseda University |
Coach | Toshihisa Tsuchihashi[1] |
Prize money | $597,152 |
Singles | |
Career record | 449–354 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 7 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 105 (28 February 2011) |
Current ranking | No. 329 (15 July 2019) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2011) |
French Open | 1R (2011) |
Wimbledon | Q3 (2010, 2011) |
US Open | Q3 (2006, 2010) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 289–190 |
Career titles | 1 WTA 125K, 25 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 101 (25 May 2015) |
Current ranking | No. 317 (24 June 2019) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2017) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2008) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 5–0 |
Last updated on: 26 June 2019. |
Early life and amateur career
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] When she was 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
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 Women's Tennis Open, partnering with China's Chuang Chia-Jung.[6] 2014 was the most successful year of her career thus far, winning three ITF doubles titles and her first singles title 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
In singles, Namigata has qualified for two Grand Slam tournaments so far. At the 2011 Australian Open, she lost to Canadian Rebecca Marino in the first round.[7] Later in the same year, she lost in the first round of the French Open to Aleksandra Wozniak.[8]
In doubles, she qualified for the 2008 Wimbledon tournament with fellow Japanese player Ayumi Morita, losing in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova and Selima Sfar.[4] In January 2017, Namigata and Chan Chin-wei received wild-card entry into the Australian Open, losing in the first round to Tatjana Maria and Pauline Parmentier.[9]
Fed Cup
Namigata represented Japan in the Asia/Oceania group of the 2011 Fed Cup.[10]
WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)
Legend |
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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
Tier I (0–0) |
Tier II (0–0) |
Tier III, IV & V (0–1) |
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2007 | Bangkok Open, Thailand | Tier III | Hard | w/o |
WTA 125 series finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Jul 2014 | Jiangxi Open, China | 125K | Hard | 7–6(7–4), 6–3 |
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 23 (7 titles, 16 runner–ups)
Legend |
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$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000/80,000 tournaments |
$50,000/60,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2004 | ITF Inchon, South Korea | 10,000 | Hard | 0–6, 6–3, 0–6 | |
Loss | 0–2 | May 2006 | ITF Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 25,000 | Hard | 4–6, 4–6 | |
Win | 1–2 | Jul 2007 | ITF Miyazaki, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 6–4, 6–2 | |
Loss | 1–3 | Oct 2007 | ITF Hamanako, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 6–4, 4–6, 2–6 | |
Loss | 1–4 | Apr 2009 | ITF Changwon, South Korea | 25,000 | Hard | 3–6, 1–6 | |
Win | 2–4 | May 2009 | ITF Gunma, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 6–1, 6–1 | |
Win | 3–4 | Jul 2009 | ITF Miyazaki, Japan | 10,000 | Carpet | 7–6(8–6), 6–2 | |
Loss | 3–5 | Aug 2009 | ITF Obihiro, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 4–6 | |
Win | 4–5 | May 2010 | ITF Fukuoka, Japan | 50,000 | Grass | 6–1, 6–2 | |
Loss | 4–6 | May 2010 | ITF Kusatsu, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 4–6, 6–7(4–7) | |
Win | 5–6 | Aug 2010 | ITF Beijing, China | 75,000 | Hard | 7–6(7–3), 6–2 | |
Loss | 5–6 | Nov 2010 | ITF Toyota, Japan | 75,000 | Carpet | 7–5, 6–2 | |
Loss | 5–8 | Oct 2011 | ITF Hamanako, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 2–6, 6–7(4–7) | |
Loss | 5–9 | May 2012 | ITF Karuizawa, Japan | 25,000 | Grass | 4–6, 6–2, 4–6 | |
Loss | 5–10 | May 2013 | ITF Karuizawa, Japan | 25,000 | Grass | 6–7(5–7), 3–6 | |
Loss | 5–11 | Jun 2014 | ITF Changwon, South Korea | 25,000 | Hard | 6–2, 4–6, 3–6 | |
Loss | 5–12 | Jun 2014 | ITF Kashiwa, Japan | 10,000 | Hard | 4–6, 6–7(5–7) | |
Win | 6–12 | Aug 2014 | ITF Tsukuba, Japan | 25,000 | Hard | 6–0, 7–6(7–3) | |
Loss | 6–13 | Oct 2014 | ITF Hamamatsu, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 6–2, 2–6, 3–6 | |
Loss | 6–14 | May 2017 | ITF Karuizawa, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 6–0, 4–6, 4–6 | |
Loss | 6–15 | Sep 2017 | ITF Nanao, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 3–6, 2–6 | |
Loss | 6–16 | Oct 2018 | ITF Makinohara, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 2–6, 3–6 | |
Win | 7–16 | Sep 2019 | ITF Nanao, Japan | 25,000 | Carpet | 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 6–2 |
Doubles (25–24)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 31 October 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | 6–3, 6–1 | ||
Winner | 2. | 17 July 2005 | Hamilton, Canada | Clay | 6–7(4–7), 6–2, 6–2 | ||
Runner-up | 3. | 31 July 2005 | Lexington, United States | Hard | 2–6, 1–6 | ||
Runner-up | 4. | 17 February 2006 | Sydney, Australia | Hard | 2–6, 1–6 | ||
Winner | 5. | 28 May 2006 | Nagano, Japan | Carpet | 6–3, 7–6(7–3) | ||
Winner | 6. | 6 August 2006 | Tokachi, Japan | Carpet | 7–5, 6–4 | ||
Winner | 7. | 23 September 2006 | Ibaraki, Japan | Hard | 6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–2 | ||
Runner-up | 8. | 14 April 2007 | Jackson, United States | Clay | 6–7(5–7), 6–7(3–7) | ||
Runner-up | 9. | 13 May 2007 | Fukuoka, Japan | Carpet | 2–6, 2–6 | ||
Winner | 10. | 7 July 2007 | Nagoya, Japan | Hard | 6–2, 3–6, 6–4 | ||
Winner | 11. | 5 August 2007 | Obihiro, Japan | Carpet | 7–6(7–3), 6–0 | ||
Winner | 12. | 13 September 2007 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | 3–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–5] | ||
Runner-up | 13. | 2 August 2008 | Vancouver, Canada | Hard | 7–6(7–4), 1–6, [5–10] | ||
Winner | 14. | 19 October 2008 | Makinohara, Japan | Carpet | 7–5, 7–6(7–4) | ||
Runner-up | 15. | 25 October 2008 | Hamanako, Japan | Carpet | 5–7, 4–6 | ||
Runner-up | 16. | 10 May 2009 | Fukuoka, Japan | Carpet | 2–6, 7–6(7–3), [3–10] | ||
Winner | 17. | 24 May 2009 | Nagano, Japan | Carpet | 6–1, 6–4 | ||
Runner-up | 18. | 10 April 2010 | Incheon, South Korea | Hard | 0–6, 6–7(8–10) | ||
Runner-up | 19. | 18 April 2010 | Gimhae, South Korea | Hard | 6–1, 4–6, [8–10] | ||
Runner-up | 20. | 25 April 2010 | Changwon, South Korea | Hard | 7–5, 3–6, [8–10] | ||
Runner-up | 21. | 8 May 2011 | Fukuoka, Japan | Grass | 6–7(3–7), 0–6 | ||
Runner-up | 22. | 21 October 2011 | Makinohara, Japan | Carpet | 2–6, 5–7 | ||
Runner-up | 23. | 25 March 2012 | Ipswich, Australia | Clay | 5–7, 4–6 | ||
Winner | 24. | 1 April 2012 | Bundaberg, Australia | Clay | 6–1, 7–5 | ||
Winner | 25. | 8 July 2012 | Middelburg, Netherlands | Clay | 6–3, 6–1 | ||
Runner-up | 26. | 26 April 2013 | Wenshan, China | Hard | 5–7, 3–6 | ||
Winner | 27. | 11 May 2013 | Fukuoka, Japan | Grass | 7–5, 3–6, [10–7] | ||
Winner | 28. | 26 October 2013 | Hamamatsu, Japan | Grass | 6–4, 6–3 | ||
Winner | 29. | 29 March 2014 | Nishitama, Japan | Hard | 6–2, 6–4 | ||
Runner-up | 30. | 18 May 2014 | Kurume, Japan | Grass | 4–6, 2–6 | ||
Winner | 31. | 24 May 2014 | Karuizawa, Japan | Grass | 6–2, 7–5 | ||
Winner | 32. | 31 May 2014 | Changwon, Korea | Hard | 7–6(7–5), 6–0 | ||
Runner-up | 33. | 22 November 2014 | Toyota, Japan | Carpet (i) | 3–6, 5–7 | ||
Runner-up | 34. | 6 February 2015 | Burnie, Australia | Hard | 2–6, 4–6 | ||
Winner | 35. | 13 February 2015 | Launceston, Australia | Hard | 6–4, 3–6, [10–6] | ||
Runner-up | 36. | 27 March 2015 | Quanzhou, China | Hard | 3–6, 7–6(7–2), [2–10] | ||
Runner-up | 37. | 10 May 2015 | Fukuoka, Japan | Grass | 3–6, 4–6 | ||
Runner-up | 38. | 17 May 2015 | Kurume, Japan | Grass | 6–7(10–12), 3–6 | ||
Winner | 39. | 17 February 2017 | Perth, Australia | Hard | 7–6(7–5), 4–6, [11–9] | ||
Winner | 40. | 24 February 2017 | Perth, Australia | Hard | 4–6, 7–5, [10–6] | ||
Winner | 41. | 14 May 2017 | Fukuoka, Japan | Grass | 6–0, 6–7(3–7), [10–7] | ||
Runner-up | 42. | 11 November 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | 1–6, 3–6 | ||
Winner | 43. | 18 November 2017 | Toyota, Japan | Carpet (i) | 3–6, 6–3, [10–4] | ||
Runner-up | 44. | 5 January 2018 | Playford, Australia | Hard | 6–2, 5–7, [5–10] | ||
Runner-up | 45. | 8 June 2018 | Singapore | Hard | 4–6, 6–4, [6–10] | ||
Winner | 46. | 2 June 2019 | Hong Kong | Hard | 6–3, 2–6, [10–6] | ||
Winner | 47. | 23 June 2019 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Hard | 6–2, 4–6, [10–7] | ||
Winner | 48. | 27 July 2019 | Granby, Canada | Hard | 7–6(7–5), 5–7, [10–8] | ||
Runner-up | 49. | November 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | 3–6, 3–6 |
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