Jiro Fujikura
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| Bio | He was the son of a traditional family, he graduated from Meiji University. Fujikura started playing tennis at a young age, he joined the Japanese Davis Cup team in 1934. He was brought to Brazil in 1936 by the superintendent of the Tozan Banking House, Fujio Mizukami, especially to defend the Tennis Club of Santos, which he created the first Open Championship in Brazil, in 1930 and needed to strengthen its team. Endowed with unprecedented technical characteristics in South America, it influenced the formation of a generation of great Brazilian tennis players, such as Maneco Fernandes, Gin Goya and Vadico, who successfully assimilated their teachings. Their victories over the best tennis players in the country for four years, transformed their names in a legend. Along with Alcides Procópio he came to represent Brazil in Argentina in 1937, and the possibility of playing for the country in the Davis Cup came to be considered. He was champion of São Paulo in 1936 and 1937, and won the Santos City Open in 1937 and 1938.The entry of Japan in World War II, in December 1941, jeopardized his sporting career, and the transfer to the interior of the State, removed -the main competitions. He was married to Yoshi Fujikura, before embarking for Santos, they had a daughter in Brazil on February 1, 1946: Helena Mitsuko Fujikura, which the Sports Almanac located in the port city of Yokohama in Japan, with the help of JTA - Japanese Tennis Association. With the end of the war, Jiro returned to the scene, and through Esporte Clube Pinheiros, (ex-Germania) resumed the dispute of regional tournaments. He was in Santos in 1947, and alongside Ricardo Balbiers, he participated in the traditional Tennis Club tournament again, but he was no longer the same. Plagued by chronic liver disease, Jiro died in São Paulo, at the age of just 43. The wife and daughter returned to Japan, and their remains were repatriated to the family mausoleum in Tokyo. |
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