Haruka Inoue

Haruka Inoue (井上 青香, Inoue Haruka; born 7 June 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Japan.

Haruka Inoue

Full name	Haruka Inoue
Country (sports)	Japan
Born	(1977-06-07) 7 June 1977 (age 48) Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$206,194
Singles
Career record	188–151
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 108 (17 August 1998)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (1998)
French Open	1R (1998)
Wimbledon	1R (1997, 1998)
US Open	Q2 (1998, 1999)
Doubles
Career record	61–79
Career titles	1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 114 (23 July 2001)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2002)
Wimbledon	Q2 (1998, 2001)
Medal record Women's tennis Asian Games 1998 Bangkok Women's team

Biography

Early life

Born in Tokyo, Inoue, a right-handed baseline player, started tennis aged nine and was coached by her father Gou. Her younger sisters, Maiko and Akari, also played on the professional tennis circuit.

She had her best year as a junior in 1995 when she was a girls' singles quarter-finalist at the Australian Open and semi-finalist at the Wimbledon Championships.^[1]

Professional career

In 1996 she graduated from high school and began competing on the professional tour.

Her earliest success on the WTA Tour came at the Wismilak International in Surabaya, where he made the quarter-finals in both 1996 and 1997.

She qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament at the 1997 Wimbledon Championships and was beaten by seventh seed Anke Huber in the first round.^[2]

In the 1998 season, she reached her highest ranking of 108 in the world. Her highlights in 1998 include reaching the quarterfinals of the ENKA Open in Istanbul as well as main draw appearances in three of the four Grand Slam tournaments. At Wimbledon she was one of only three players to take a set off Nathalie Tauziat on the Frenchwoman's run to the final.^[3]

She never represented Japan in Fed Cup but was a member of the bronze medal winning women's team at the 1998 Asian Games.

ITF finals

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Singles (2–4)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	2 October 1995	Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Tomoe Hotta	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2.	25 February 1996	Redbridge, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Elena Pampoulova	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3.	26 October 1997	Houston, United States	Hard	Park Sung-hee	1–6, 6–7(2)
Loss	4.	22 May 1998	Noda, Japan	Hard	Shinobu Asagoe	2–6, 4–6
Win	1.	27 October 2002	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Aiko Nakamura	6–2, 6–2
Win	2.	19 September 2004	Kyoto, Japan	Carpet	Maika Ozaki	6–4, 6–1

Doubles (1–4)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	3 October 1994	Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Shinobu Asagoe	Kim Il-soon Yoriko Yamagishi	2–6, 1–6
Loss	2.	12 December 1999	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Maiko Inoue	Li Ting Li Na	3–6, 2–6
Loss	3.	26 March 2000	Stone Mountain, United States	Hard	Maiko Inoue	Trudi Musgrave Bryanne Stewart	4–6, 6–2, 6–7
Loss	4.	20 October 2002	Haibara, Japan	Carpet	Maiko Inoue	Remi Tezuka Yuka Yoshida	0–6, 2–6
Win	1.	27 October 2002	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Maiko Inoue	Keiko Taguchi Nami Urabe	6–1, 6–2