Sachiko Kamo
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| Bio | She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin High School for Girls. Immediately after the end of World War II, she played an active role as a pioneer of Japanese female tennis players. She is the first Japanese woman to participate in the women's singles of the four major tournaments, with "8 wins" including six consecutive victories in the women's singles of the All Japan Tennis Championships . The Kamo family is famous as the prestigious "tennis family," and all four brothers have become Japan's leading tennis players. Eldest daughter, Junko ( 1923 - 2003 ) / second daughter, Sachiko / eldest son AyaHitoshi (Reijin) / second son, Kosei in the family structure, Sachiko was the second child. From the age of 9, she started playing tennis with her sister Junko under the guidance of her father. In 1940 ( Showa 15), she won the All Japan Tennis Championships Women's Doubles category for the first time in a pair with her sister Junko. World War II with the intensification of, the All-Japan Championships 1941 and, 1943 - 1945 , but held to have been aborted, 1942 the tournament is done, Sachiko the women's doubles second win in partnership with Naoko Oura Record. After the war, in 1946 also the All-Japan Championships from resumes, Sachiko 1946 from 1951 was achieved the women's singles 6 consecutive up. During that time, she also won the women's doubles for the third consecutive time from 1948 to 1950, recording a total of five wins. In women's singles, she also won the championship in 1953 and 1955, and left a record of "8 wins", which is the second place in the history of the All Japan Championship. In mixed doubles in 1949 and 1950 , 1955 has won three times, the partners was Kosei of the youngest either. The history of the four major tournament challenges by Japanese female tennis players begins with Sachiko Kamo, who first participated in the US Championship in 1952 ( Showa 27) . In the first US Championship, Kamo lost to Julia Sampson ( USA ) 10-12, 4-6 in the first round. Two years later, in 1954, Kamo became the first Japanese woman to participate in the Wimbledon Championship and advanced to the third round. In the same year, when she participated in the US Championship for the second time in two years, she has won the third round against Royce Felix ( USA ), the eighth seed. Kamo has not participated in the Australian Championships or the French Open Championships, but thus paved the way for Japanese female tennis players to challenge the world's four major tournaments. The following year, 1955, of the US Championships Kosei of the youngest brother in the, in the men's doubles department Atsushi Miyagi won teamed a pair. The Kamo family, who became a pioneer in the Japanese tennis world, died on March 31, 2003 , when their eldest daughter, Junko, died on her 80th birthday, and seven months later, on October 28, her second daughter, Sachiko. She passed away at the age of 77. Her younger brother, Kosei, also passed away on January 6, 2017. |
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