is a former professional tennis player from Japan.
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.
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.
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.
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 OpponentScoreLoss 1. 2 October 1995 Ibaraki, Japan Hard Tomoe Hotta 3–6, 3–6Loss 2. 25 February 1996 Redbridge, United Kingdom Hard (i) Elena Pampoulova 4–6, 4–6Loss 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, 4–6Win 1. 27 October 2002 Tokyo, Japan Hard Aiko Nakamura 6–2, 6–2Win 2. 19 September 2004 Kyoto, Japan Carpet Maika Ozaki 6–4, 6–1
Doubles (1–4) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 1. 3 October 1994 Ibaraki, Japan Hard Shinobu Asagoe Kim Il-soon Yoriko Yamagishi 2–6, 1–6Loss 2. 12 December 1999 Manila, Philippines Hard Maiko Inoue Li Ting Li Na 3–6, 2–6Loss 3. 26 March 2000 Stone Mountain, United States Hard Maiko Inoue Trudi Musgrave Bryanne Stewart 4–6, 6–2, 6–7Loss 4. 20 October 2002 Haibara, Japan Carpet Maiko Inoue Remi Tezuka Yuka Yoshida 0–6, 2–6Win 1. 27 October 2002 Tokyo, Japan Hard Maiko Inoue Keiko Taguchi Nami Urabe 6–1, 6–2
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