Nami Urabe Explained

Nami Urabe
Birth Date:29 August 1978
Birth Place:Saitama, Japan
Plays:Right-handed
Careerprizemoney:$30,693
Singlestitles:0
Highestsinglesranking:No. 399 (4 May 1998)
Doublestitles:8 ITF
Highestdoublesranking:No. 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

$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Doubles: 15 (8–7)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Runner-up1.2 October 1995Ibaraki, JapanHard Trudi Musgrave Yoshiko Sasano
Keiko Nagatomi
0–6, 6–7(5)
Winner1.23 October 1995Kyoto, JapanHard Trudi Musgrave Tomoe Hotta
Eiko Toba
3–6, 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up2.8 January 1996San Antonio, United StatesHard Saori Obata Pam Nelson
Nóra Köves
6–2, 4–6, 1–6
Winner2.25 March 1996Bandung, IndonesiaHard Saori Obata Chen Jingjing
Li Li
6–3, 6–3
Runner-up3.30 June 1997Mont-de-Marsan, FranceHard Saori Obata Katalin Marosi
Veronica Stele
4–6, 3–6
Winner3.15 September 1997Ibaraki 1, JapanHard Surina De Beer Riei Kawamata
Yoshiko Sasano
6–2, 6–3
Winner4.22 September 1997Ibaraki 2, JapanHard Surina De Beer Shizu Katsumi
Kyoko Kojima
6–3, 6–3
Winner5.5 October 1997Kyoto, JapanCarpet Surina De Beer Yumiko Kitamura
Natsumi Yuki
6–2, 6–3
Runner-up4.10 October 1997Saga, JapanGrass Surina De Beer Danielle Jones
Saori Obata
3–6, 4–6
Runner-up5.23 February 1998Mumbai, IndiaHard Yoriko Yamagishi Chen Jingjing
Yang Qin
6–7(5), 2–6
Winner6.27 September 1999Kyoto, JapanCarpet Keiko Ishida Yuki Fujii
Yumiko Kitamura
6–1, 6–3
Winner7.3 September 2001Kugayama, JapanHard Seiko Okamoto Melissa Dowse
Samantha Stosur
6–4, 2–6, 6–1
Runner-up6.26 September 2001Kyoto, JapanHard Seiko Okamoto Melissa Dowse
Samantha Stosur
3–6, 6–3, 2–6
Runner-up7.21 October 2002Tokyo, JapanHard Keiko Taguchi Haruka Inoue
Maiko Inoue
1–6, 2–6
Winner8.23 September 2003Hiroshima, JapanGrass Tomoko Taira Satomi Kinjo
Akiko Yonemura
6–3, 6–3

Notes and References

  1. News: Richardson falls to elated Japanese . . 16 March 1995 . 27 August 2019 . 19 . National Library of Australia.