Kazuko Sawamatsu
Alias: Kazuko Yoshida
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| Bio | At the age of 16 she was the youngest All Japan Championship women's singles champion. In 1969, she won Roland Garros and Wimbledon in girls' singles and as of today she remains the only one Japanese female player who won a junior Grand Slam title in singles! As well as she is one of the 7 female players who won the French Open-Wimbledon double (Channel Slam) in the junior girls' singles category, and the only one Japanese (male or female). She competed in a number of major LTA tournaments in the 1970s on the world circuit. At the 1975 Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals, as well as reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open and U.S. Open the same year. She was the first Asian female player who reached a semifinal of a Grand Slam in singles (at the Australian Open in 1973). She won the 1975 Wimbledon ladies doubles title with partner Ann Kiyomura and became the first Asian female player who won a Grand Slam title! In November 1975, she won the singles title at the Japan Open Tennis Championships, defeating Kiyomura in the final in three sets and together they won the doubles title. |
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