Rio Noguchi

Rio Noguchi
	Noguchi at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Japan
Born	28 December 1998 (age 25); Fukuoka, Japan
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Hiroyuki Kojima
Prize money	$258,443
Singles
Career record	1–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 201 (7 November 2022)
Current ranking	No. 396 (13 November 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2023)
French Open	Q1 (2023)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2023)
Doubles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 261 (23 October 2023)
Current ranking	No. 273 (6 November 2023)
	Last updated on: 12 November 2023.

Rio Noguchi (野口莉央, Noguchi Rio, born 28 December 1998) is a Japanese tennis player.

Noguchi has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 201 achieved on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 261 achieved on 23 October 2023.^[1]

Career[edit]

2022: ATP debut, first win and Top 250[edit]

Noguchi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships after qualifying for the singles main draw, defeating Tatsuma Ito and Yusuke Takahashi to qualify. He won his first ATP and ATP 500 level match defeating fellow qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan. As a result he climbed 75 positions up the rankings into the top 250.

Singles: 16 (7–9)[edit]

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (7–8)

Titles by surface
Hard (6–7)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	May 2018	Vietnam F1, Thua Thien Hue	Futures	Hard	Ji-Sung Nam	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Loss	1–1	Jun 2018	Japan F7, Karuizawa	Futures	Clay	Takashi Saito	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–1	Jun 2018	Japan F8, Akishima	Futures	Carpet	Gengo Kikuchi	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–2	Dec 2018	Pakistan F1, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Cheong-Eui Kim	7–6^(7–3), 2–6, 1–6
Win	2–3	Dec 2018	Pakistan F3, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Kai Wehnelt	1–6, 5–7
Loss	2–4	Jun 2019	M25 Nonthaburi, Thailand	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Sidharth Rawat	5–7, 0–6
Loss	2–5	Oct 2019	M25 Tay Ninh, Vietnam	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Daniel Nguyen	4–6, 2–6
Loss	2–6	Mar 2020	M25 Mildura, Australia	World Tennis Tour	Grass	Brydan Klein	5–7, 3–6
Win	3–6	Oct 2021	M25 Pretoria, South Africa	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Filip Peliwo	6–3, 7–5
Loss	3–7	Jun 2022	M25 Harmon, Guam	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Seong Chan Hong	3–6, 2–6
Win	4–7	Jul 2022	M25 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Ben Patael	6–2, 6–4
Win	5–7	Jul 2022	M25 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Ben Patael	6–2, 7–6^(7–5)
Win	6–7	Sep 2022	M25 Sapporo, Japan	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Shuichi Sekiguchi	4–6, 7–5, 6–2
Win	7–7	Sep 2022	M25 Sapporo, Japan	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Tatsuma Ito	6–1, 4–0 ret.
Loss	7–8	Oct 2022	M25 Kashiwa, Japan	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Rimpei Kawakami	default
Loss	7–9	Oct 2022	Playford, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Rinky Hijikata	1–6, 1–6

Doubles: 16 (6–10)[edit]

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)
ITF Futures Tour (6–8)

Finals by surface
Hard (4–7)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2017	Japan F8, Akishima	Futures	Carpet	Yuta Shimizu	Yuto Sakai Yunosuke Tanaka	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Feb 2018	Spain F3, Paguera	Futures	Clay	Yunseong Chung	Bruno Santanna David Vega Hernandez	2–6, 7–6^(8–6), [10–8]
Loss	1–2	Jun 2018	Japan F8, Karuizawa	Futures	Clay	Yuichiro Inui	Sora Fukuda Hiromasa Oku	5–7, 4–6
Win	2–2	Dec 2018	Pakistan F1, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Cheong-Eui Kim	Darko Jandric Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev	6–2, 6–4
Loss	2–3	Dec 2018	Pakistan F2, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Sora Fukuda	Darko Jandric Cheong-Eui Kim	3–6, 4–6
Loss	2–4	Dec 2018	Pakistan F3, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Ken Onishi	Anton Chekhov Kai Wehnelt	3–6, 5–7
Loss	2–5	Jun 2019	M15 Akishima, Japan	World Tennis Tour	Carpet	Yunosuke Tanaka	Hiroyasu Ehara Sho Katayama	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–5	Oct 2019	M25 Tay Ninh, Vietnam	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Alexey Zakharov	Samuel Beren Billy Harris	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, [10–4]
Loss	3–6	Dec 2019	M15 Doha, Qatar	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Adam Moundir	Danylo Kalenichenko Ivan Liutarevich	3–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	4–6	Oct 2020	M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Shintaro Mochizuki	Gijs Brouwer Ryan Nijboer	6–2, 7–5
Win	5–6	Apr 2021	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Shintaro Mochizuki	Benjamin Hassan Constantin Schmitz	7–6^(7–2), 6–2
Loss	5–7	Aug 2021	M25 Champaign, IL, United States	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Yunseong Chung	Ben Shelton Eliot Spizzirri	4–6, 0–6
Loss	5–8	Nov 2021	M25 Meitar, Israel	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Naoki Nakagawa	Eero Vasa Iiro Vasa	1–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	6–8	Jul 2022	M25 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Alexandro Skorilas	Ray Ho Kelsey Stevenson	6–7^(4–7), 6–3, [10–3]
Loss	6–9	Oct 2022	Playford, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Yusuke Takahashi	Jeremy Beale Calum Puttergill	6–7^(2–7), 4–6
Loss	6–10	Nov 2022	Yokkaichi, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Masamichi Imamura	Yu Hsiou Hsu Yuta Shimizu	6–7^(2–7), 4–6