Yūichi Sugita

Yūichi Sugita
杉田祐一

Yūichi Sugita at the 2015 Wimbledon Qualifying
Country (sports)	Japan
Residence	Sendai, Japan
Born	(1988-09-18) 18 September 1988 Sendai, Japan
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	2006
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,028,808
Singles
Career record	17–34
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 64 (June 12, 2017)
Current ranking	No. 66 (June 26, 2017)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2016)
French Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	1R (2014, 2015, 2017)
US Open	Q3 (2010, 2014)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2016)
Doubles
Career record	2–7
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 363 (August 25, 2014)
Current ranking	No. 380 (April 24, 2017)
Medal record Representing Japan Men's tennis Asian Games 2014 Incheon Singles 2014 Incheon Team 2014 Incheon Mixed Doubles
Last updated on: April 24, 2017.

Yūichi Sugita (杉田 祐一, Sugita Yūichi, born 18 September 1988) is a Japanese tennis player who plays primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has won nine challenger singles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 73 on 1 May 2017.

Career

Juniors

As a junior Sugita compiled a win/loss record of 34–19 (and 26–18 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 73 in the combined world rankings in February 2006. He competed in singles and doubles at the Australian Open in both 2005 and 2006, reaching the singles second round of the latter.

2007 - 09

Sugita had won eight ITF Futures titles in Japan and Indonesia. From 2009, he started to play mainly in ATP Challenger Tour. Sugita was received wildcard for the 2008 Japan Open to make his first ATP main draw. He finished 2009 as ranked world no.299.

2010

After reaching semifinal in Bernie Challenger, Sugita claimed his first challenger title in Kyoto. He defeated Australian Matthew Ebden in final, and he break him into world top 200 for the first time as ranked no.186. Sugita advanced to final round of qualifying in the 2010 US Open, losing to Lukáš Rosol in two sets. In November, Sugita won back-to-back Futures titles in Thailand, and reached final in the Toyota Challenger, but lost to fellow Japanese Tatsuma Ito in straight sets.

2011

Sugita started the season by playing the Chennai Open as qualifier, and recorded his first ATP main draw win against Dustin Brown in three sets. He lost to eighth seed Robin Haase in the second round. He represented Japan at 2011 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs against India, winning over Somdev Devvarman in the singles rubber, and Japan promoted to 2012 Davis Cup World Group.

2012

Yūichi started his 2012 campaign by making it to the quarterfinals of the Chennai Open before falling to Nicolás Almagro in three close sets, knocking out eighth seed Oliver Rochus and Lu Yen-hsun on the way. After competing in ATP World Tour events in Asian swing, Sugita became the runners-up of the Bangkok Challenger and Seoul Challenger. He achieved his career-high ranking of world no.116 in November.

In Grand Slam qualifying, Sugita had reached the third round twice in 2012 at Australian Open and Wimbledon, but he lost in both matches.

2013

Sugita won through the opening round in the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, against Canadian Jesse Levine in straight sets. The Next round, he was defeated by third seed Igor Sijsling. In Asian Challenger events, Sugita won the Shanghai Challenger, winning over his countryman Hiroki Moriya, and reached the final in Toyota.

2014

Yūichi qualified for 2014 Wimbledon Championships by defeating Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland, 6-4, 6-2, 7-5. It marked the first time he qualified for a Grand Slam after 17 failed qualifying campaigns dating back to 2009. He had previously reached the final round of qualifying at Slams four times, and he dropped decisive sets in three of those matches. He lost to 19th seed Feliciano López in the first round with three tiebrekers.

In later season, Sugita earned men's singles bronze medal in the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, where he beat Temur Ismailov of Uzbekistan in the quarterfinal. He also earned bronze medals of men's team and mixed doubles. Afterwards, He won his third challenger title in Pune by beating Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras in the final.

2015

Sugita won through the qualifying at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships for the second consecutive year in this tournament, losing to Blaž Kavčič in the first round. After this event, he reached the second rounds in Newport and Bogota, defeating Ryan Harrison and Nicolás Barrientos. At Thai's challenger circuit, he won his fourth challenger title in Bangkok, and fifth in Hua Hin.

2016: Top 100

Sugita qualified for the 2016 Australian Open main draw for the first time, but he lost to 23rd seed Gaël Monfils in the first rounds. In February, he claimed his second Kyoto challenger title by beating Zhang Ze in the final. This result launched him into the world top 100 for the first time in his career, climbing No. 99.

In June, he reached the second round of the Halle Open after beating Taylor Fritz in three sets. He then lost to last year's runner-up Andreas Seppi in straight sets.

Sugita finished the year ranked at #112.

2017

In March, Sugita re-entered the ATP top 100 after winning ATP Challenger Tour titles in Yokohama, Japan and Shenzhen, China. In April he made it into the main draw of the Barcelona Masters as a "Lucky Loser", and went on to defeat Tommy Robredo, Richard Gasquet and Pablo Carreno Busta before losing to Dominic Thiem in the quarter-finals. Following this success, he reached #73 on the ATP rankings; his highest to date. In June, he reached his maiden ATP World Tour level final in Antalya where he will be playing Adrian Mannarino in the final, who is also going for his first ATP title.

Challenger finals

Singles: 15 (9 titles, 6 runners-up)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (9–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	14 March 2010	Kyoto, Japan	Carpet (i)	Matthew Ebden	4–6, 6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	28 November 2010	Toyota, Japan	Carpet (i)	Tatsuma Ito	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	2 September 2012	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Dudi Sela	1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	28 October 2012	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Lu Yen-hsun	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	2.	8 September 2013	Shanghai, China	Hard	Hiroki Moriya	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	24 November 2013	Toyota, Japan (2)	Carpet (i)	Matthew Ebden	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	2 March 2014	Guangzhou, China	Hard	Blaž Rola	7–6(7–4), 4–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	25 October 2014	Pune, India	Hard	Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras	6–7(1–7), 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	12 April 2015	Saint-Brieuc, France	Hard (i)	Nicolas Mahut	6–3, 6–7(3–7), 4–6
Winner	4.	6 September 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Marco Trungelliti	6–4, 6–2
Winner	5.	8 November 2015	Hua Hin, Thailand	Hard	Stéphane Robert	6–2, 1–6, 6–3
Winner	6.	28 February 2016	Kyoto, Japan (2)	Carpet (i)	Zhang Ze	5–7, 6–3, 6–4
Winner	7.	5 March 2017	Yokohama, Japan	Hard	Soon Woo Kwon	6–4, 2–6, 7–6(7–2)
Winner	8.	19 March 2017	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Blaz Kavcic	7–6(8–6), 6–4
Winner	9.	11 June 2017	Surbiton, United Kingdom	Grass	Jordan Thompson	7–6(9–7), 7–6(10–8)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	26 September 2010	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Frederik Nielsen	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	3–6, 5–7

External links

• Yūichi Sugita at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Yūichi Sugita at the Davis Cup
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