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, achieved in May 2015.[2]

Junri Namigata
Native name波形純理
Country (sports) Japan
ResidenceSaitama, Japan
Born (1982-07-05) 5 July 1982
Koshigaya Japan
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro2005
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
CollegeWaseda University
CoachToshihisa Tsuchihashi[1]
Prize moneyUS$ 626,963
Singles
Career record470–384 (55.0%)
Career titles7 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 105 (28 February 2011)
Current rankingNo. 547 (17 January 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2011)
French Open1R (2011)
WimbledonQ3 (2010, 2011)
US OpenQ3 (2006, 2010)
Doubles
Career record315–213 (59.7%)
Career titles1 WTA Challenger, 25 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 101 (25 May 2015)
Current rankingNo. 273 (17 January 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2017)
Wimbledon1R (2008)
Team competitions
Fed Cup5–0
Last updated on: 26 January 2022.

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] 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 Open, partnering with 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 wildcard 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 (runner–up)

Legend
Grand Slam (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
Loss 0–1 Oct 2007 Bangkok Open, Thailand Tier III Hard Ayumi Morita Sun Tiantian
Yan Zi
w/o

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

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

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75/80,000 tournaments
$50/60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 23 (7 titles, 16 runner–ups)

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 Grass 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 ITF Beijing, China 75,000 Hard Zhang Shuai 7–6(3), 6–2
Loss 5–6 Nov 2010 ITF Toyota, Japan 75,000 Carpet 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: 49 (25 titles, 24 runner–ups)

Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. Oct 2004 ITF Tokyo, Japan Hard Kumiko Iijima Maki Arai
Akiko Yonemura
6–3, 6–1
Win 2. Jul 2005 ITF Hamilton, Canada Clay Kumiko Iijima Lauren Barnikow
Lauren Breadmore
6–7(4), 6–2, 6–2
Loss 3. Jul 2005 ITF Lexington, United States Hard Kumiko Iijima Vilmarie Castellvi
Samantha Reeves
2–6, 1–6
Loss 4. Feb 2006 ITF Sydney, Australia Hard Ayumi Morita Chan Yung-jan
Chuang Chia-jung
2–6, 1–6
Win 5. May 2006 ITF Nagano, Japan Carpet Kumiko Iijima Remi Tezuka
Tomoko Yonemura
6–3, 7–6(3)
Win 6. Aug 2006 ITF Tokachi, Japan Carpet Kumiko Iijima Shiho Hisamatsu
Remi Tezuka
7–5, 6–4
Win 7. Sep 2006 ITF Ibaraki, Japan Hard Kumiko Iijima Natsumi Hamamura
Ayaka Maekawa
6–7(4), 6–3, 6–2
Loss 8. Apr 2007 ITF Jackson, United States Clay Yurika Sema Eva Hrdinová
Michaela Paštíková
6–7(5), 6–7(3)
Loss 9. May 2007 Fukuoka International, Japan Carpet Rika Fujiwara Ayumi Morita
Akiko Yonemura
2–6, 2–6
Win 10. Jul 2007 ITF Nagoya, Japan Hard Akiko Yonemura Chang Kyung-mi
Kim Jin-hee
6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Win 11. Aug 2007 ITF Obihiro, Japan Carpet Kumiko Iijima Ayumi Morita
Akiko Yonemura
7–6(3), 6–0
Win 12. Sep 2007 ITF Tokyo, Japan Hard Rika Fujiwara Kumiko Iijima
Akiko Yonemura
3–6, 7–6(4), [10–5]
Loss 13. Aug 2008 Vancouver Open, Canada Hard Christina Fusano Carly Gullickson
Nicole Kriz
7–6(4), 1–6, [5–10]
Win 14. Oct 2008 ITF Makinohara, Japan Carpet Natsumi Hamamura Chae Kyung-yee
Han Xinyun
7–5, 7–6(4)
Loss 15. Oct 2008 ITF Hamanako, Japan Carpet Akiko Yonemura Kanae Hisami
Yurina Koshino
5–7, 4–6
Loss 16. May 2009 Fukuoka International, Japan Carpet Ayaka Maekawa Akiko Yonemura
Tomoko Yonemura
2–6, 7–6(3), [3–10]
Win 17. May 2009 ITF Nagano, Japan Carpet Akiko Yonemura Tomoyo Takagishi
Varatchaya Wongteanchai
6–1, 6–4
Loss 18. Apr 2010 ITF Incheon, South Korea Hard Misaki Doi Irina-Camelia Begu
Erika Sema
0–6, 6–7(8)
Loss 19. Apr 2010 ITF Gimhae, South Korea Hard Misaki Doi Chang Kyung-mi
Lee Jin-a
6–1, 4–6, [8–10]
Loss 20. Apr 2010 ITF Changwon, South Korea Hard Misaki Doi Chang Kyung-mi
Lee Jin-a
7–5, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss 21. May 2011 Fukuoka International, Japan Grass Aiko Nakamura Shuko Aoyama
Rika Fujiwara
6–7(3), 0–6
Loss 22. Oct 2011 ITF Makinohara, Japan Carpet Akiko Yonemura Shuko Aoyama
Kotomi Takahata
2–6, 5–7
Loss 23. Mar 2012 ITF Ipswich, Australia Clay Shuko Aoyama Monique Adamczak
Sandra Zaniewska
5–7, 4–6
Win 24. Apr 2012 ITF Bundaberg, Australia Clay Shuko Aoyama Sacha Jones
Sally Peers
6–1, 7–5
Win 25. Jul 2012 ITF Middelburg, Netherlands Clay Yurika Sema Bernice van de Velde
Angelique van der Meet
6–3, 6–1
Loss 26. Apr 2013 ITF Wenshan, China Hard Rika Fujiwara Miki Miyamura
Varatchaya Wongteanchai
5–7, 3–6
Win 27. May 2013 Fukuoka International, Japan Grass Erika Sema Rika Fujiwara
Akiko Omae
7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
Win 28. Oct 2013 ITF Hamamatsu, Japan Grass Shuko Aoyama Belinda Bencic
Sofia Shapatava
6–4, 6–3
Win 29. Mar 2014 ITF Nishitama, Japan Hard Akiko Yonemura Choi Ji-hee
Akari Inoue
6–2, 6–4
Loss 30. May 2014 ITF Kurume, Japan Grass Akiko Yonemura Jarmila Gajdošová
Arina Rodionova
4–6, 2–6
Win 31. May 2014 ITF Karuizawa, Japan Grass Akiko Yonemura Kanae Hisami
Chiaki Okadaue
6–2, 7–5
Win 32. May 2014 ITF Changwon, Korea Hard Chuang Chia-jung Lee Ye-ra
Kim So-jung
7–6(5), 6–0
Loss 33. Nov 2014 ITF Toyota, Japan Carpet (i) Shuko Aoyama Eri Hozumi
Makoto Ninomiya
3–6, 5–7
Loss 34. Feb 2015 Burnie International, Australia Hard Han Xinyun Irina Falconi
Petra Martić
2–6, 4–6
Win 35. Feb 2015 Launceston International, Australia Hard Han Xinyun Wang Yafan
Yang Zhaoxuan
6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Loss 36. Mar 2015 ITF Quanzhou, China Hard Hiroko Kuwata Eri Hozumi
Makoto Ninomiya
3–6, 7–6(2), [2–10]
Loss 37. May 2015 Fukuoka International, Japan Grass Eri Hozumi Naomi Broady
Kristýna Plíšková
3–6, 4–6
Loss 38. May 2015 Kurume Cup, Japan Grass Eri Hozumi Makoto Ninomiya
Riko Sawayanagi
6–7(10), 3–6
Win 39. Feb 2017 ITF Perth, Australia Hard Riko Sawayanagi Irina Bara
Prarthana Thombare
7–6(5), 4–6, [11–9]
Win 40. Feb 2017 ITF Perth, Australia Hard Riko Sawayanagi Tammi Patterson
Olivia Rogowska
4–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Win 41. May 2017 Fukuoka International, Japan Grass Kotomi Takahata Erina Hayashi
Robu Kajitani
6–0, 6–7(3), [10–7]
Loss 42. Nov 2017 ITF Tokyo, Japan Hard Eri Hozumi Yuki Naito
Rika Fujiwara
1–6, 3–6
Win 43. Nov 2017 ITF Toyota, Japan Carpet (i) Ksenia Lykina Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
Peangtarn Plipuech
3–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Loss 44. Jan 2018 Playford International, Australia Hard Erika Sema Dalila Jakupović
Irina Khromacheva
6–2, 5–7, [5–10]
Loss 45. June 2018 ITF Singapore Hard Miyabi Inoue Zoe Hives
Olivia Tjandramulia
4–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Win 46. Jun 2019 ITF Hong Kong, China SAR Hard Abigail Tere-Apisah Erina Hayashi
Momoko Kobori
6–3, 2–6, [10–6]
Win 47. Jun 2019 ITF Jakarta, Indonesia Hard Haruka Kaji Beatrice Gumulya
Jessy Rompies
6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
Win 48. Jul 2019 Challenger de Granby, Canada Hard Haruka Kaji Quinn Gleason
Ingrid Neel
7–6(5), 5–7, [10–8]
Loss 49. Nov 2019 ITF Tokyo, Japan Hard Haruka Kaji Choi Ji-hee
Han Na-lae
3–6, 3–6

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