 Date in Japan, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country (sports) |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||
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| Residence | Tokyo | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 September 1970 Kyoto, Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | March 1989 | |||||||||||||||||
| Retired | November 1996 12 September 2017 | |||||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Prize money | $3,988,378 | |||||||||||||||||
| Singles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Career record | 450–268 | |||||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 8 WTA, 14 ITF | |||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 4 (13 November 1995) | |||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | SF (1994) | |||||||||||||||||
| French Open | SF (1995) | |||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | SF (1996) | |||||||||||||||||
| US Open | QF (1993, 1994) | |||||||||||||||||
| Other tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | SF (1994) | |||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | QF (1996) | |||||||||||||||||
| Doubles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Career record | 184–142 | |||||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 6 WTA, 7 ITF | |||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 28 (19 January 2015) | |||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | ||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | QF (1992) | |||||||||||||||||
| French Open | 2R (1993, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) | |||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 3R (2011) | |||||||||||||||||
| US Open | SF (2014) | |||||||||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 2R (1992) | |||||||||||||||||
| Team competitions | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fed Cup | SF (1996), record 21–11 | |||||||||||||||||
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Kimiko Date (伊達 公子, Date Kimiko, born 28 September 1970) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in 1995, and retired from professional tennis in November 1996.
She returned to tennis nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008. She then won her eighth WTA title at the 2009 Korea Open, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour.[2] In 2013, she won three WTA Tour titles in doubles and at the 2014 US Open, aged 43, she reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam doubles tournament for the first time in her career. Date announced her final retirement in September 2017.
- ^ born left-handed
- ^ "Sony Ericsson WTA Tour | Players | Info | Kimiko Date Krumm". Archived from the original on 26 September 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.