Kimiko Date-Krumm
Kimiko Date Krumm - (Japaneseクルム 伊達 公子, Kurumu Date Kimiko; born September 28, 1970 in Kamigyo -ku, Kyoto, as Kimiko Date ) is a Japanese tennis player.
- 3.1 Individual
- 3.2 double
Career
Date was selected in 1992 by the WTA for Most Improved Player Of The Year. In early 1994, she managed after winning the title in Sydney for the first time made it into the top ten of the world tennis rankings. Shortly after, she reached the first Japanese woman for 21 years the semi-finals at the Australian Open. In 1995, she was at the French Open after beating Lindsay Davenport and Iva Majoli as the first Japanese woman ever in the semifinals. Your greatest triumph she celebrated with the tournament victory at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo ( final against Davenport ). In Miami Date moved into the final after they fight off three match points against Gabriela Sabatini, and a 1:6 - 1:5 residue had been able to turn around. In 1996, she was defeated in the Wimbledon semi-finals of the world number one Steffi Graf after three sets.
In her career she won so far around 400 individual lots. Overall, they won eight titles on the WTA Tour, including four times the Japan Open. The end of 1995 it was listed at number four in the world rankings. In Fed Cup she also has a win over Steffi Graf to beech stand (1996 7:6, 3:6, 12:10 ). In the same year she gave then their resignation.
After victories in exhibition battles in 2008 over Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova, the 37 -year-old Japanese woman unexpectedly announced her comeback and won in November with the Japanese Tennis Championships title in singles.
In the ITF tournament in Gifu, she qualified for the main draw and moved there after victories over the top seed Aiko Nakamura, the three set Melanie South and the five set Rika Fujiwara to the finals, where they Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 5:7, 2:6 defeated. With her 16 -year-old country woman Nara, she won the doubles tournament there. After she won a few titles on the ITF Circuit, before it increases again took on the tour and at Grand Slam tournaments.
Since the year 1996 2009 Date Krumm was the first time in the main draw of the Australian Open, but failed there already in round 1 of the Estonian Kaia Kanepi 4:6, 6:4, 6:8.
One day before her 39th birthday, she won the 2009 in Seoul against the Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3, 6-3, the Hansol Korea Open. Putting it on the tour, the second oldest tournament winner in the individual after Billie Jean King, who won her last tournament in Birmingham on June 6, 1983, was about half a year older than Date - Krumm in her victory in Seoul.
In 2010 she defeated at the French Open the previous year's finalist Dinara Safina and thus became the oldest player to ever beat a top ten player. She beat Safina shortly afterwards at the WTA tournament in Stanford again, and then defeated the world rankings Sixth Elena Dementieva 6:3, 3:6, 4:6. Date - Krumm was again among the top 50 in the world rankings. When WTA Tokyo surprised in the first round with a win over Maria Sharapova in the second round and was eliminated against Francesca Schiavone of. In Osaka she defeated on the way to the finals, the top ten player Samantha Stosur and world ranking Thirteenth Shahar Peer. In the final, she succumbed at the age of 40 years, just in the "oldest" WTA finals of all time surprising the 33 -year-old Tamarine Tanasugarn. End of the year they beat on the way to the quarterfinals of Bali Daniela Hantuchova and yet the Weltranglistenelfte Li Na.
Kimiko Date Krumm, in 2010, among others - Celebrate successes over the following top players: Dinara Safina, Maria Sharapova, Samantha Stosur, Li Na, Daniela Hantuchova, Shahar Peer, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Nadia Petrova, Anna Chakvetadze.
At the Australian Open 2011, she lost to significant leadership only narrowly to the world rankings Twelfth Agnieszka Radwańska. In 's-Hertogenbosch they defeated the seeded Maria Kirilenko 6 and moved into the quarter-finals. At Wimbledon, she reached the second round.
The year 2012 did not go well for Date - Krumm. Many minor injuries ensured that they it past at any Grand Slam tournament on the first round.
At the Australian Open in 2013, she surprised in the first round when she defeated the 12 -seeded Russian Nadia Petrova 6-2 6-0. This keeps Date - Krumm the record as the oldest player to win a singles match at the Australian Open. In the second round, she convinced with their victory over Shahar Peer ( 6-2, 7-5 ) before losing to Bojana Jovanovski 2:6 and 6:73. Also in double surprised Date Krumm Arantxa Parra Santonja with her partner when she the seeded 2 double Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká defeated in the second round in three sets 7:5, 3:6 and 6:3 and the last sixteen moved in. At the clay court tournament in Strasbourg, she was able to celebrate their third doubles title in 2013. At Wimbledon, she reached the third round in singles but had to leave in two tight sets precedence to defending champion Serena Williams.
Date - Krumm is married to German racing driver Michael Krumm.