Erika Sema

Erika Sema (瀬間 詠里花, Sema Erika, born 24 November 1988)[1] is a professional Japanese tennis player.

Erika Sema

Her coach is Shunsuke Ogata. She is the younger sister of Yurika Sema who retired from professional tennis in November 2015. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French.

Sema, who is playing on the WTA Tour but mostly on the ITF Women's Circuit, has tried for 16 times to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, without success.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles 16 (10 titles, 6 runners-up)

$100,000 tournaments (0–1)

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments (7–4)

$10,000 tournaments (3–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	March 11, 2007	Hamilton, New Zealand	Hard	Anna Smith	6–3, 7–5
Winner	2.	June 10, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Chiaki Okadaue	6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	Mar 28, 2009	Kofu, Japan	Hard	Misaki Doi	5–7, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	May 3, 2009	Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard,	Ayu-Fani Damayanti	5–7, 3–6
Winner	5.	June 14, 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Erika Takao	6–4, 6–0
Runner-up	6.	September 28, 2010	Hamanako, Japan	Hard	Kumiko Iijima	7–6, 2–6, 4–6
Winner	7.	October 5, 2010	Port Pirie, Australia	Hard	Victoria Larrière	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Winner	8.	October 12, 2010	Mount Gambier, Australia	Hard	Ana Clara Duarte	6–2, 6–3
Winner	9.	November 12, 2010	Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Elitsa Kostova	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	10.	May 24, 2011	Niigata, Japan	Hard	Sachie Ishizu	7–6, 6–4
Runner-up	11.	September 12, 2011	Ningbo, China	Hard	Anastasiya Yakimova	6–7, 3–6
Runner-up	12.	October 17, 2011	Makinohara, Japan	Carpet	Karolína Plíšková	7–6, 2–6, 0–6
Winner	13.	October 22, 2012	Seoul, Korea	Hard	Mai Minokoshi	6–1, 7–5
Runner-up	14.	September 1, 2013	Tsukuba, Japan	Hard	Nao Hibino	4–6, 6–7
Winner	15.	September 14, 2013	Incheon, Korea	Hard	Yurika Sema	6–3, 6–4
Winner	16.	June 14, 2015	Kashiwa, Japan	Hard	Riko Sawayanagi	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 46 (23 titles, 23 runners-up)

$100,000 tournaments (0–1)

$80,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments (5–4) / $60,000 tournaments (0–3)

$25,000 tournaments (18–13)

$15,000 tournaments (0–1)

$10,000 tournaments (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	July 23, 2005	Kurume, Japan	Carpet	Ayumi Morita	Chan Chin-wei Hsieh Su-wei	4–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	October 26, 2007	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Courtney Nagle Robin Stephenson	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	May 18, 2008	Kurume, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Chang Kai-chen Hwang I-hsuan	3–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Winner	4.	May 24, 2008	Nagano, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Ayaka Maekawa Hwang I-hsuan	6–3, 2–6, [10–7]
Winner	5.	May 31, 2008	Gunma, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Chang Kai-chen Hwang I-hsuan	6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	6.	May 9, 2009	Tarakan, Indonesia	Hard	Yrina Koshino	Beatrice Gumulya Jessy Rompies	6–7^(5), 7–6^(4), [7–10]
Runner-up	7.	May 30, 2009	Gunma, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Hsu Wen-hsin Mari Tanaka	3–6, 6–1, [7–10]
Winner	8.	September 26, 2009	Makinohara, Japan	Carpet	Kurumi Nara	Mari Tanaka Tomoko Yonemura	6–0, 6–0
Runner-up	9.	October 9, 2009	Mount Gambier, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Olivia Rogowska Emily Webley-Smith	1–6, 7–5, [7–10]
Winner	10.	October 16, 2009	Port Pirie, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Alenka Hubacek Bojana Bobusic	6–1, 7–5, [10–6]
Winner	11.	April 10, 2010	Incheon, South Korea	Hard	Irina-Camelia Begu	Misaki Doi Junri Namigata	6–0, 7–6^(8)
Winner	12.	May 2, 2010	Gifu, Japan	Hard	Tomoko Yonemura	Ksenia Lykina Melanie South	6–3, 2–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	13.	July 4, 2010	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Magdalena Kiszczyńska	Mandy Minella Irena Pavlovic	3–6, 4–6
Winner	14.	July 10, 2010	Aschaffenburg, Germany	Clay	Teodora Mirčić	Elena Bogdan Andrea Koch Benvenuto	7–6^(4), 2–6, [10–8]
Runner-up	15.	July 18, 2010	Darmstadt, Germany	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	Vitalia Diatchenko Laura Siegemund	6–4, 1–6, [4–10]
Runner-up	16.	August 8, 2010	Hechingen, Germany	Clay	Julia Schruff	Irina-Camelia Begu Anaïs Laurendon	2–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Winner	17.	August 14, 2010	Versmold, Germany	Clay	Hana Birnerová	Aminat Kushkhova Olga Panova	6–3, 6–3
Winner	18.	September 21, 2010		Hard	Yurika Sema	Alison Bai Emelyn Starr	7–5, 6–1
Winner	19.	September 28, 2010	Hamanako, Japan	Clay	Kumiko Iijima	Kao Shao-yuan Ayaka Maekawa	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	20.	April 12, 2011	Osprey, United States	Clay	María Irigoyen	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon Alexa Glatch	6–4, 5–7, [7–10]
Runner-up	21.	April 26, 2011	Gifu, Japan	Hard	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	Chan Yung-jan Chan Hao-ching	2–6, 3–6
Winner	22.	May 24, 2011	Niigata, Japan	Hard	Natsumi Hamamura	Akari Inoue Ayumi Oka	6–1, 6–2
Winner	23.	June 20, 2011	Périgueux, France	Clay	Florencia Molinero	Leticia Costas-Moreira Inès Ferrer-Suárez	6–2, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	24.	July 4, 2011	Biarritz, France	Clay	Roxane Vaisemberg	Alexandra Panova Urszula Radwańska	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	25.	July 11, 2011	Contrexéville, France	Clay	Roxane Vaisemberg	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Kateryna Kozlova	6–2, 5–7, [10–12]
Winner	26.	March 12, 2012	Sanya, China	Hard	Zheng Saisai	Liang Chen Zhou Yimiao	6–2, 6–2
Winner	27.	August 6, 2012	Bronx, United States	Hard	Shuko Aoyama	Eri Hozumi Miki Miyamura	6–4, 7–6^(4)
Winner	28.	January 28, 2013	Burnie, Australia	Hard	Shuko Aoyama	Bojana Bobusic Jessica Moore	w/o
Winner	29.	April 29, 2013	Gifu, Japan	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	Nao Hibino Riko Sawayanagi	6–4, 6–3
Winner	30.	May 6, 2013	Fukuoka, Japan	Grass	Junri Namigata	Rika Fujiwara Akiko Omae	7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	31.	June 15, 2013	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Julia Glushko	Julie Coin Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	2–6, 4–6
Winner	32.	October 6, 2013	Perth, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Monique Adamczak Tammi Patterson	7–5, 6–1
Winner	33.	October 27, 2013	Bendigo, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Monique Adamczak Olivia Rogowska	3–6, 6–2, [11–9]
Runner-up	34.	17 February 2014	New Delhi, India	Hard	Yurika Sema	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6–7, 3–6
Runner-up	35.	31 March 2014	Jackson, United States	Clay	Yurika Sema	Chanel Simmonds Maša Zec Peškirič	7–6, 3–6, [5–10]
Runner-up	36.	15 October 2016	Makinohara, Japan	Carpet	Rika Fujiwara	Ksenia Lykina Riko Sawayanagi	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	37.	27 February 2017	Clare, Australia	Hard	Alison Bai	Beatriz Haddad Maia Genevieve Lorbergs	4–6, 3–6
Winner	38.	11 March 2017	Yokohama, Japan	Hard	Ayaka Okuno	Kanako Morisaki Minori Yonehara	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	39.	26 March 2017	Nishitama, Japan	Hard	Shiho Akita	Momoko Kobori Kotomi Takahata	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	40.	27 May 2017	Lu'an, China	Hard	Mana Ayukawa	Jiang Xinyu Tang Qianhui	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	41.	25 September 2017	Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Jennifer Elie	Naiktha Bains Abigail Tere-Apisah	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	42.	5 January 2018	Playford, Australia	Hard	Junri Namigata	Dalila Jakupović Irina Khromacheva	6–2, 5–7, [5–10]
Runner-up	43.	May 2019	ITF Lu'an, China	Hard	Mai Minokoshi	Beatrice Gumulya You Xiaodi	1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	44.	Sep 2019	ITF Changsha, China	Clay	Rutuja Bhosale	Jiang Xinyu Tang Qianhui	3–6, 6–3, [9–11]
Winner	45.	22 February 2020	Perth, Australia	Hard	Kanako Morisaki	Jaimee Fourlis Erin Routliffe	7–5, 6–4
Winner	46.	29 February 2020	Perth, Australia	Hard	Kanako Morisaki	Paige Hourigan Abigail Tere-Apisah	6–1, 4–6, [10–7]

References

1. Japan Tennis Association profile Archived 2010-02-06 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 3 July 2010. (in Japanese)

External links

• Erika Sema at the Women's Tennis Association
• Erika Sema at the International Tennis Federation