Utilisateur:Hhst/Japanese Tennis History Database

Joueurs

Ichiya Kumagae

Lifetime: 10 septembre 1890 - 16 août 1968 (More detailed information afterwards)

Seiichiro Kashio

Lifetime: 2 janvier 1892 - 6 septembre 1962 (More detailed information afterwards)

Zenzo Shimizu

Lifetime: 25 mars 1891 - 12 avril 1977 (More detailed information afterwards)

Takeichi Harada

Lifetime: 16 mai 1899 - 12 juin 1978. Paris Olympic Games 1924, Men's singles: Quarterfinal, Umberto de Morpurgo (Italy, Bronze medalist) 4-6 1-6 1-6 // Doubles with Sunao Okamoto, 2nd round loss -- It was regarded "regression" from Japanese point of view, compared to Silver Medal of Ichiya Kumagae. (See the top of Davis Cup records, 1930 against Italy.) He was an impressive player, like that Coup droit. (French site, Tennis Styles Worldwide)

His Grand Slam singles results: French Championships, 1930 only once, 3rd round // Wimbledon, 1924/1927/1930: Best records, 3rd round 1924 and 1930 (1927, 1st round loss) // US Championships, 1924-1927: Best records, 3rd round 1925 and 1927.

• French Championships 1930: R3, 5-7 6-4 3-6 4-6 Harry Hopman F1930
• Wimbledon 1924: R3, 4-6 1-6 2-6 Vincent Richards
• Wimbledon 1930: R3, 3-6 2-6 5-7 Colin Gregory
• US Championships 1925: R3, 3-6 0-6 6-8 Vincent Richards
• US Championships 1927: R3, 3-6 4-6 3-6 René Lacoste

Takeichi Harada became Davis Cup Captain in 1955 and 1956, where he led Atsushi Miyagi and Kosei Kamo.

Masanosuke Fukuda

Lifetime: 4 mai 1897 - 21 décembre 1974. Famous quotes, "Lessons of Tennis" by Masanosuke Fukuda, published first in 1941:

This is the only one ball!

Therefore, you should hit it with all your heart.

You should polish your skills, build up your physical strength, cultivate your mentality through this shot.

You should display your own self through this shot.

This is the "spirit of playing tennis".

Masanosuke was born in Shinjuku, Tokyo, near Waseda University. He played baseball as a little boy. He started playing tennis at age 13, but changed into "hard-ball" (ordinary tennis / Japanese term, compared to "soft-ball" tennis) at 24, from 1921. Next year, he got the first Men's singles champion of All Japan Tennis Championships in 1922. During the process, he beat Takeichi Harada (Keioh Univ.) 6-3 7-5 2-6 4-6 6-1 at the 4th round -- After two matches, he won Yoshiro Ota [1] 6-2 7-5 7-5 at the final.

Fukuda traveled abroad for three years, 1923-1925 as a Davis Cup player. His Grand Slam and Olympics records are as follows:

• US Championships 1923: R1, Walkover (News of Kanto Earthquake, September 1st 1923)
• Wimbledon 1924: R1, D. Browne (AUS) 6-4 9-11 6-3 6-2 / R2, Theodore Mavrogordato (GBR) 1-6 7-5 6-4 6-4 / R3, Sydney Jacob (IND) 0-6 2-6 4-6 [2]
• Paris Olympics 1924: R1, Bye / R2, Patrick Wheatley (GBR) 6-2 6-4 6-3 / R3, Hendrik Timmer (NED) 8-6 6-4 5-7 6-4 / R4, Henri Cochet 2-6 1-6 3-6 [3] (Page 107/146)
• US Championships 1924: R1, Zenzo Shimizu (walkover) / R2, 6-4 6-4 6-1 S. W. Pearson / R3, 4-6 0-6 1-6 Dean Mathey (USA)
• US Championships 1925: R1, 6-4 2-6 0-6 4-6 Howard Kinsey

After loss by Howard Kinsey in US Championships 1925, Fukuda returned home and married Fumiko Tamura, also a top tennis player. He introduced "Eastern Grip" for the first time in Japanese tennis. He became Davis Cup Captain in 1959.

Masanosuke Fukuda was a pioneer of Japanese sportswriter too. He wrote many books and reports all his life, like "Tennis: The Only One Ball".

Jiro Sato

Lifetime: 5 janvier 1908 - 5 avril 1934. He advanced Grand Slam semifinals five times:

• French Championships 1931: QF, 8-6 1-6 2-6 6-4 6-3 John Van Ryn / SF, 8-10 6-2 7-5 1-6 2-6 Jean Borotra F1931
• Wimbledon 1932: QF, 7-5 7-5 2-6 6-4 Sidney Wood / SF, 5-7 2-6 1-6 Henry Austin
• Australian Championships 1932: SF, 6-0 2-6 3-6 6-4 4:6 Harry Hopman
• French Championships 1933: QF, 1-6 7-5 6-4 2-6 6-2 Fred Perry / SF, 0-6 2-6 2-6 Jack Crawford F1933
• Wimbledon 1933: QF, 7-5 6-3 2-6 2-6 6-2 Henry Wilfred Austin / SF, 3-6 4-6 6-2 4-6 Jack Crawford <Men's Doubles runner-up with Ryosuke Nunoi>

His first Wimbledon in 1931, QF: He lost Jean Borotra 2-6 3-6 6-4 4-6. (Against Borotra, French SF -> Wimbledon QF in 1931)

More detailed information necessary for him, the greatest male player from Japan.

Ryosuke Nunoi

Lifetime: 18 janvier 1909 - 21 juillet 1945. His Grand Slam singles results: Each event only once. (Australian Champ 1932, French / Wimbledon / US Champ 1933) His lifetime was [January 18, 1909 - July 21, 1945]

• Australian Championships 1932: QF, 6-3 5-7 4-6 1-6 Jack Crawford
• French Championships 1933: R2, 2-6 2-6 6-1 6-1 6-4 Adrian Quist / R3, 2-6 4-6 3-6 Marcel Bernard F1933
• Wimbledon 1933: R2, 7-9 6-2 7-9 6-1 2-6 Lester Stoefen <Men's Doubles runner-up with Jiro Sato>
• US Championships 1933: R3, 5-7 1-6 6-1 6-1 6-2 George Lott / R4, 5-7 2-6 3-6 Frank Shields

Nunoi was the best friend of Jiro Sato. (In 1932, he beat Sato at All Japan Tennis Championships Men's singles final 5-7 6-2 2-6 6-4 6-1.)

He shot himself to death in Birma, near the end of World War II. (see Burma Campaign)

Tatsuyoshi Miki

Lifetime: 11 février 1904 - 9 janvier 1966. His Grand Slam singles results: French Championships, 1930/1932/1933: Best record, 3rd round 1933 // Wimbledon, 1929-1934: Best records, 3rd round (He advanced the 3rd round of Wimbledon for 4 consecutive years, from 1930 to 1933.) // US Championships, 1927 only once, 1st round loss. At Wimbledon 1934 with Dorothy Round, Miki had to overcome Jiro's suicide, three months before.

• Wimbledon 1930: R1, 6-1 6-3 11-13 8-6 J. Hillyard (GBR) / R2, 6-0 6-3 7-5 Ian Collins (GBR) / R3, 4-6 3-6 2-6 Gregory Mangin (USA)
• Wimbledon 1931: R3, 4-6 1-6 2-6 Jean Borotra
• Wimbledon 1932: R3, 4-6 0-6 6-2 1-6 Wilmer Allison
• Wimbledon 1933: R3, 2-6 4-6 4-6 Ellsworth Vines

His best record in French Championships, 3rd round in 1933. (1933, R3: French and Wimbledon)

• French Championships 1933: R3, 6-2 3-6 8-10 4-6 Jack Crawford F1933

Crawford beat Jiro Sato at the semifinal afterwards, and final Henri Cochet 8-6 6-1 6-3 -- the first French Champion outside France.

Miki was a master of mixed doubles: his best friends in this field, Dorothy Round, Phyllis Mudford (later Phyllis King) and so forth.

Jiro Yamagishi

Lifetime: 23 mai 1912 - 30 janvier 1997. He was born in Moji City (Now part of Kita-Kyushu City), Fukuoka. His Grand Slam singles results: French Championships, 1935 only once, 2nd round // Wimbledon, 1934/1935/1937: Best record, 4th round 1934 // US Championships, 1932/1937: Best record, 4th round 1937.

• Wimbledon 1934: R4, 6-4 4-6 2-6 2-6 Jack Crawford
• Wimbledon 1935: R2, 6-2 6-2 2-6 1-6 2-6 Gene Mako (Won consolation tournament All England Plate)
• Wimbledon 1937: R3, 4-6 4-6 6-3 4-6 Gottfried von Cramm
• US Championships 1937: R4, 6-3 1-6 1-6 1-6 Joseph Hunt

He won John Bromwich in Davis Cup 1938 [4], and became Captain of Japan Team in 1953.

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«Tennis The Greats 1920-1960» Recalled by Adrian Quist, Compiled by Jack Egan (First published 1984)

Copied from Page 97, with picture of Jiro Yamagishi DC1938

We knew very little about the Japanese team. They'd beaten Canada easily and we'd heard they were good, but the first time I saw Jiro Yamagishi I knew he was a great player. He had marvellous ground strokes, great ball control, hit the ball very hard and had the best drop shot I've ever seen.

Yamagishi beat John Bromwich in the first match. He just hit the ball too hard for John and that gave us a great shock. I beat Nakano in the second match -- he was not as good as Yamagishi. Then John and I won the doubles then I played Yamagishi in the fourth match.

As it turned out, this was one of the best matches I ever played. Yamagishi won the first set, he was too accurate and hit the ball too hard for me.

Then one of those strange things happened: I decided I couldn't win the baseline, so I decided to rush the net. It was just one of those days when everything came off, everything I did turned out right.

Eventually I won the match and we went on to play against Germany in Boston, in the Interzone final.

Fumiteru Nakano

Lifetime: 13 janvier 1915 - 30 décembre 1989. (Davis Cup site says, born "1916", but all Japanese references say "1915", including his university photo albums.) [5] He was born in Mizunami City, Gifu. His Grand Slam singles results: French Championships, 1938 only once, 4th round // Wimbledon, 1937/1938: Best records, 3rd round both times // US Championships, 1937/1938/1951: Best record, 4th round 1937.

• French Championships 1938: R3, 6-1 6-3 4-6 6-0 Gene Mako / R4, 4-6 3-6 3-6 Frantisek Cejnar F1938
• Wimbledon 1937: R3, 8-6 8-10 3-6 1-6 Ronald Shayes [6]
• Wimbledon 1938: R3, 3-6 5-7 8-6 3-6 Franjo Kukuljevic
• US Championships 1937: R4, 6-3 5-7 3-6 6-8 Bobby Riggs
• US Championships 1938: R2, 8-6 6-1 3-6 3-6 3-6 Gilbert Hunt
• US Championships 1951: R3, 2-6 1-6 1-6 Bill Talbert

At the US Championships 1937, Nakano and Jiro Yamagishi advanced 4th round: Yamagishi lost Joseph Hunt. (It was the last appearance of Japanese men, US best 16 -- Kei Nishikori broke the barrier after 71 years.) Nakano survived the World War II, returned back to tennis after the war. He attended the first post-war Davis Cup in 1951, kept on playing until 1952. Died in December 30, 1989 at Seto, Aichi Prefecture.

Joueuses

Sachiko Kamo

Lifetime: 11 février 1926 - 28 octobre 2003. She was born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, as the second child of a "tennis family".

• Oldest: Junko (jap. 加茂純子) -- [March 31 1923 - March 31 2003]. Her husband, Kiichiro Nakamuta, got Davis Cup Captain in 1952.
• Second: Sachiko (jap. 加茂幸子) -- She got the the first Japanese woman to attend Grand Slam Ladies' Singles in 1952 US Open // 1954 Wimbledon and US Open.
• Third: Reijin (jap. 加茂礼仁) -- a Davis Cup player in 1954, under Zenzo Shimizu.
• Youngest: Kosei (jap. 加茂公成) -- a notable Davis Cup player, US Open Doubles Champion 1955.

Sachiko won 16 titles of All Japan Tennis Championships. Women's Singles: 8 (1946-51, 1953, 1955) // Women's Doubles: 5 (1940, 1942, 1948-50) // Mixed Doubles: 3 (1949, 1950, 1955, all with Kosei).

She attended US Open 1952 as the first Japanese woman. At the first appearance, she lost Julia Sampson (USA) at the 1st round, 10-12 4-6. In 1954, she attended Wimbledon too.

• Wimbledon 1954: R1, Bye / R2, 6-3 7-5 Helga Strecker (AUT) / R3, 3-6 9-11 Nicla Migliori (ITA) <The first woman, only once>
• US Open 1954: R1, 6-1 6-4 J. Rook (GBR) / R2, 6-4 6-3 Kay Hubbell (USA) / R3, 9-11 3-6 Lois Felix (USA, 8th seed) <2nd appearance>

More detailed information necessary for her.

Emiko Okagawa

She was nicknamed "Riki-Maru" after her powerful forehand strokes (Riki) and round shape of her body (Maru). She lost Steffi Graf at the 1st round of French Open 1985, but the WTA Tour score (7-5 3-6 6-4) is not correct. According to JTA Official Tennis Players' Guidebook and French Open official drawsheet, the correct score is "7-6 6-4". F1985