Etsuko Inoue
Alias: Etsuko Kaneshiro
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| Bio | She is a retired female tennis player from Japan. She used to work for Yonex. She was born in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, later moved to Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. While studying at Konandai High School in Yokohama, she won the women's singles division of the 1980 Inter-High. In 1981 she dropped out of high school after two years and she turned professional tennis. In the Japanese women's tennis world at the time, Inoue was called "three daughters" along with Emiko Okagawa and Kumiko Okamoto as hopes for junior players (those three were in the same grade). With the "world challenge" on the front, she started to go around the world women's tennis tour alone. A leading player in the Japanese women's tennis world in the 1980s, she paved the way for Japanese women's tennis players to challenge the world tour. Her highest singles ranking was 26th (as of March 14, 1988), which was an epoch-making position for a Japanese female tennis player at the time. Her best doubles ranking was 34th. Inoue's first appearance in the four major tournaments was at the Australian Open in 1983, where she lost in the first round. At the next major, at the French Open in 1983, she won three qualifying matches and qualified for the main draw, and also reached the second round, but she had faced to the No.15 seeded Claudia Corde-Kirsch (West Germany) and lost 4-6, 3-6. After Wimbledon, Inoue was able to directly participate in the main tournament. In October of the same year, she performed well in her domestic matches, reaching the semi-finals at the Boden Classic, before winning her first professional title at the Suntory Japan Open. She won the Boden Classic in 1984, but lost the first match at the Japan Open. In 1985, she won her first women's singles title at the All Japan Tennis Championships, and since then she has won the tournament three times in a row until 1987. From 1982 to 1989, she represented Japan in the women's national competition "Federation Cup" (later Fed Cup/Billie Jean Cup). At the 1987 Australian Open women's doubles, Inoue paired with Patricia Hy (Canada) and advanced to the semi-finals where they lost against No. 1-seeded Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. In 1988, she reached the third round at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and represented Japan at the Seoul Olympics. In the women's doubles at the Seoul Olympics, she made it to the quarter-finals with Kumiko Okamoto, losing to Czech representatives Helena Sukova and Jana Novotna. In 1989, she won the women's singles at the All Japan Tennis Championships for the first time in two years and for the fourth time. Her highest singles ranking reached by Inoue, "No. 26", was the highest ranking for a Japanese female tennis player until she was surpassed by her junior Kimiko Date in February 1992. After losing the first round at Wimbledon in 1990, she retired from playing. After that, she took the university entrance examination and graduated from Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin University. In 1993, when she was still in school, she married trainer Sen Kaneshiro and changed her name to "Etsuko Kaneshiro". After graduating from university, she served as a member of the junior committee of the Japan Tennis Association Strengthening Headquarters, and as a coach of the Japanese national team at the Fed Cup (for two years in 2001 and 2002). Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984 (Los Angeles, California) and 1988 (Seoul, South Korea). In 1982, she became the first winner of the women's tennis competition at the Asian Games. She won the Japan and Asian Open in 1983. |
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