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Takeru Yuzuki

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Takeru Yuzuki
Country (sports) Japan
Born (1998-09-22) 22 September 1998 (age 27)
Mooka, Japan
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS $108,874
Singles
Career record0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 1278 (15 August 2022)
Current rankingNo. 1628 (22 September 2025)
Doubles
Career record0–4 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles3 Challengers
Highest rankingNo. 85 (13 October 2025)
Current rankingNo. 85 (13 October 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2025)
Last updated on: 30 September 2025.

Takeru Yuzuki (柚木 武, Yuzuki Takeru; born 22 September 1998) is a Japanese tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 85 achieved on 13 October 2025.[1]

Career

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Yuzuki was born in 1998 in Mooka, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Yuzuki graduated from Hosei University in 2021.

Yuzuki made his ATP main draw debut at the 2023 Japan Open Tennis Championships after entering the doubles main draw with Seita Watanabe as lucky losers. In October 2024, he won the men's doubles at the All Japan Tennis Championships with Seita Watanabe.

Yuzuki made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2025 Australian Open after entering the doubles main draw with Seita Watanabe as a wildcard pair.[2]

Yuzuki won his first ATP tour level match at the 2025 Japan Open after entering the doubles main draw with Rohan Bopanna as a wildcard pair.[3] The pair reached the finals before losing to second seeds Édouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys. As a result Yuzuki reached the top 100 at world No. 86 in the doubles rankings on 29 September 2025.[4]

ATP Tour finals

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Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–1)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2025 Japan Open, Japan 500 Series Hard India Rohan Bopanna Monaco Hugo Nys
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
5–7, 5–7

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Doubles: 16 (9 titles, 6 runner-ups, 1 non-complete)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (3-6)
ITF Futures (6-0)
Finals by surface
Hard (7–3)
Clay (2–3)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2022 M25 Harmon, Guam Futures Hard Japan Takuto Niki South Korea Seongchan Hong
South Korea Cheong-Eui Kim
6–1, 6–7(4-7), [11-9]
Win 2–0 Aug 2022 M25 Sapporo, Japan Futures Hard Japan Takuto Niki Japan Rimpei Kawakami
Japan Naoki Tajima
3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win 3–0 Jun 2023 M25 Anseong, South Korea Futures Clay South Korea Chung Yun-seong Japan Shunsuke Mitsui
Japan Naoki Tajima
7–6(7–3), 6–4
Win 4–0 Sep 2023 M25 Sapporo, Japan Futures Hard Japan Sho Katayama Canada Chih Chi Huang
Japan Yuta Kikuchi
6–4, 6–4
Win 5–0 Sep 2023 M25 Takasaki, Japan Futures Hard Japan Seita Watanabe Japan Taisei Ichikawa
Japan Kazuma Kawachi
6–4, 2–6, [10-5]
Win 6–0 Apr 2024 M15 Kashiwa, Japan Futures Hard Japan Masamichi Imamura Chinese Taipei Ray Ho
South Korea Nam Ji-sung
4–6, 6–2, [10-8]
Win 7–0 Apr 2024 Concepción, Chile Challenger Clay Japan Seita Watanabe Australia Patrick Harper
United Kingdom David Stevenson
6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Loss 7–1 Jul 2024 Zug, Switzerland Challenger Clay Japan Seita Watanabe Austria Jurij Rodionov
Ukraine Volodomyr Uzhylovskyi
6–7(5-7), 6–7(5–7)
Win 8–1 Aug 2024 Zhangjiagan, China Challenger Hard Japan Kaichi Uchida Philippines Francis Alcantara
Thailand Pruchya Isaro
6–1, 7–5
Win 9–1 Nov 2024 Matsuyama, Japan Challenger Hard Japan Seita Watanabe United States Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
New Zealand Rubin Statham
6–4, 6–3
Loss 9–2 Nov 2024 Kobe, Japan Challenger Hard Japan Kaichi Uchida United States Vasil Kirkov
Netherlands Bart Stevens
6–7(7-9), 5–7
Loss 9–3 Mar 2025 Concepción, Chile Challenger Clay Japan Seita Watanabe United States Vasil Kirkov
Chile Matias Soto
2–6, 4–6
Loss 9–4 Mar 2025 Campinas, Brazil Challenger Clay Japan Seita Watanabe Argentina Mariano Kestelboim
Argentina Gonzalo Villanueva
2–6, 6–7(5-7)
Not completed Jul 2025 Zug, Switzerland Challenger Clay South Korea Nam Ji-sung France Geoffrey Blancaneaux
France Harold Mayot
x–x, x–x
Loss 9–5 Aug 2025 Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland Challenger Hard South Korea Nam Ji-sung Netherlands Thijmen Loof
France Arthur Reymond
4–6, 7–6(7–3), [14-16]
Loss 9–6 Jan 2026 Nonthaburi, Thailand Challenger Hard India Anirudh Chandrasekar India Sriram Balaji
Austria Neil Oberleitner
3–6, 6–7(6–8)

References

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  1. ^ "Takeru Yuzuki | Overview". ATP Tour.
  2. ^ "¡SANTIAGO GONZÁLEZ AVANZA EN EL AUSTRALIAN OPEN!". notiver.com (in Spanish). 17 January 2025.
  3. ^ Sentinel, Digital (25 September 2025). "Bopanna-Yuzuki pair through to Japan Open quarterfinals". The Sentinel - of this Land, for its People. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Nys/Roger-Vasselin sink Bopanna/Yuzuki for Tokyo crown, '12 years on...'". ATP Tour. 30 September 2025. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
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