Yuka Yoshida
Alias: Yuka Kaneko
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| Bio | She was a baseline player with a two-handed backhand stroke as his biggest weapon. Although he did not win the singles on the WTA tour, he won 3 doubles. The self-best world ranking is singles 52nd, doubles 51st. She started playing tennis at the age of seven . As a junior player, in 1993, she was runner-up in Wimbledon in girls' doubles paired with Hiroko Mochizuki, and they also finished as runner-up at US Open in girls' doubles. Plus she was the finalist in the girls' singles and was defeated by Maria Francesca Bentivoglio. After graduating from Shonan Institute of Technology High School, she entered a professional in April 1994 . Paired with Miho Saiki at the Japan Open in 1995, they beat Ai Sugiyama and Kyoko Nagatsuka 6-7, 6-4, 7-6 to celebrate their first victory. In November of 1996, in Pattaya City, they won the tournament in doubles. Yoshida and Saeki won the All Japan Tennis Championships in 1997. She lost his only singles final at the Indonesia - Jakarta tournament in April 1997. In the final she was beaten by her compatriot, Naoko Sawamatsu 3–6, 2–6. From 1998 to 2001 , Yoshida represented her country in the Fed Cup. In 1998, at US Open Yoshida and Saeki advanced to the last eight in women's doubles, where they were beaten by the second seeded Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zvereva 1-6, 1-6. Yoshida defeated Miho Saeki 6-4, 6-2 in the women's singles final in the All-Japan Tennis Championships in 2003, then in doubles she achieved a second win for the first time in six years. In February 2005, in Memphis, she won her first doubles tournament title in nine years. She played her last singles match against Lucy Safarova in 2005 at French Open in the first qualification round. She retired from tennis on September 21, 2005 . In 2013, she became coach of Japanese Fed Cup team. However, in 2014, they lost their replacement match and relegated from World Group II to Asia-Oceania Zone I. In 2015, the team missed the World Group return, defeated in the replacement race. After this, she retired at the expiration of her contract. |
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