Junri Namigata

Junri Namigata

Namigata competing in the first round of the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying
Native name	波形純理
Country (sports)	Japan
Residence	Saitama, Japan
Born	(1982-07-05) 5 July 1982 Koshigaya Japan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
College	Waseda University
Coach	Toshihisa Tsuchihashi
Prize money	$622,766
Singles
Career record	472–371
Career titles	7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 105 (28 February 2011)
Current ranking	No. 350 (23 November 2020)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2011)
French Open	1R (2011)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2010, 2011)
US Open	Q3 (2006, 2010)
Doubles
Career record	314–206
Career titles	1 WTA 125K, 25 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 101 (25 May 2015)
Current ranking	No. 150 (23 November 2020)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	1R (2008)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	5–0
Last updated on: 28 November 2020.

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. Her career-high doubles ranking is 101, achieved in May 2015.

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. She attended Fujimura Girls' Junior High School and Horikoshi High School in Tokyo. In September 1997, when still in junior high school, she made her first appearance in an ITF doubles tournament. In her first year of high school, she reached the round of 16 at the All Japan Tennis Championship and won the All Japan Junior Championship title in her final year of high school. 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. In 2004, she won the intercollegiate singles title and also won her first ITF doubles titles in October.

Professional career

Namigata turned professional in August 2005, 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; she finished 2006 ranked 162 in singles. 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. 2014 was the most successful year of her career thus far, winning three ITF doubles titles and her first singles title since 2010. 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.

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. Later in the same year, she lost in the first round of the French Open to Aleksandra Wozniak.

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. 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.

Fed Cup

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

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

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

WTA 125K series finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

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

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 23 (7 titles, 16 runner–ups)

Legend
$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
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(8–6), 6–2
Loss	3–5	Aug 2009	ITF Obihiro, Japan	25,000	Carpet	Kurumi Nara	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 4–6
Win	4–5	May 2010	ITF Fukuoka, 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(4–7)
Win	5–6	Aug 2010	ITF Beijing, China	75,000	Hard	Zhang Shuai	7–6(7–3), 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(4–7)
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(5–7), 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(5–7)
Win	6–12	Aug 2014	ITF Tsukuba, Japan	25,000	Hard	Chang Kai-chen	6–0, 7–6(7–3)
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(7–5), 4–6, 6–2

Doubles: 49 (25 titles, 24 runner–ups)

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

External links

• Junri Namigata at the Women's Tennis Association
• Junri Namigata at the International Tennis Federation
• Junri Namigata at the Billie Jean King Cup