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Nami Urabe

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Nami Urabe
Country (sports) Japan
Born (1978-08-29) 29 August 1978 (age 46)
Saitama, Japan
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$30,693
Singles
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 399 (4 May 1998)
Doubles
Career titles8 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 176 (24 November 1997)

Nami Urabe (born 29 August 1978) is a Japanese former professional tennis player.

Born in Saitama, Urabe was one of Japan's top players in junior tennis, reaching the girls' doubles final of the 1995 Australian Open with partner Saori Obata.[1]

Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a quarterfinal appearance in the doubles draw at the 1995 Japan Women's Open and she won eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.


ITF finals

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$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Doubles: 15 (8–7)

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Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 2 October 1995 Ibaraki, Japan Hard Australia Trudi Musgrave Japan Yoshiko Sasano
Japan Keiko Nagatomi
0–6, 6–7(5)
Winner 1. 23 October 1995 Kyoto, Japan Hard Australia Trudi Musgrave Japan Tomoe Hotta
Japan Eiko Toba
3–6, 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up 2. 8 January 1996 San Antonio, United States Hard Japan Saori Obata United States Pam Nelson
Hungary Nóra Köves
6–2, 4–6, 1–6
Winner 2. 25 March 1996 Bandung, Indonesia Hard Japan Saori Obata China Chen Jingjing
China Li Li
6–3, 6–3
Runner-up 3. 30 June 1997 Mont-de-Marsan, France Hard Japan Saori Obata Hungary Katalin Marosi
Argentina Veronica Stele
4–6, 3–6
Winner 3. 15 September 1997 Ibaraki 1, Japan Hard South Africa Surina De Beer Japan Riei Kawamata
Japan Yoshiko Sasano
6–2, 6–3
Winner 4. 22 September 1997 Ibaraki 2, Japan Hard South Africa Surina De Beer Japan Shizu Katsumi
Japan Kyoko Kojima
6–3, 6–3
Winner 5. 5 October 1997 Kyoto, Japan Carpet South Africa Surina De Beer Japan Yumiko Kitamura
Japan Natsumi Yuki
6–2, 6–3
Runner-up 4. 10 October 1997 Saga, Japan Grass South Africa Surina De Beer Australia Danielle Jones
Japan Saori Obata
3–6, 4–6
Runner-up 5. 23 February 1998 Mumbai, India Hard Japan Yoriko Yamagishi China Chen Jingjing
China Yang Qin
6–7(5), 2–6
Winner 6. 27 September 1999 Kyoto, Japan Carpet Japan Keiko Ishida Japan Yuki Fujii
Japan Yumiko Kitamura
6–1, 6–3
Winner 7. 3 September 2001 Kugayama, Japan Hard Japan Seiko Okamoto Australia Melissa Dowse
Australia Samantha Stosur
6–4, 2–6, 6–1
Runner-up 6. 26 September 2001 Kyoto, Japan Hard Japan Seiko Okamoto Australia Melissa Dowse
Australia Samantha Stosur
3–6, 6–3, 2–6
Runner-up 7. 21 October 2002 Tokyo, Japan Hard Japan Keiko Taguchi Japan Haruka Inoue
Japan Maiko Inoue
1–6, 2–6
Winner 8. 23 September 2003 Hiroshima, Japan Grass Japan Tomoko Taira Japan Satomi Kinjo
Japan Akiko Yonemura
6–3, 6–3

References

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  1. ^ "Richardson falls to elated Japanese". The Canberra Times. 16 March 1995. p. 19. Retrieved 27 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
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