Toshihide Matsui Explained

Toshihide Matsui
Residence:	Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Birth Date:	19 April 1978
Birth Place:	Osaka, Japan
Turnedpro:	June 2000
Plays:	Right-handed (one handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:	US$386,128
Coach:	David Porter (1997–2000), Robert Davis (2014–17),Laurence Tieleman (2004–14, 2018–),Jason Yue (2018–)
Singlesrecord:	4–2
Singlestitles:	0
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 261 (12 June 2006)
Currentsinglesranking:	No. 1527 (13 May 2024)
Doublesrecord:	3–10
Doublestitles:	0
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 121 (27 May 2024)
Currentdoublesranking:	No. 124 (1 July 2024)
Updated:	13 May 2024

is a professional Japanese tennis player. On 12 June 2006, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 261. He achieved his highest doubles ranking of No. 123 in February 2024.^[1] He is currently the oldest active singles player on the ATP world ranking.

Career

He was the runner-up in men's singles at the Japanese National Championships in 2006 when he lost the final against Satoshi Iwabuchi.^[2]

He won 6 Japanese national championship titles in men's doubles category:4 titles with Satoshi Iwabuchi (2005,2007–09) and 2 titles with Kaito Uesugi (2021–22).

When he played at the 2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open against 18-year-old Chun-hsin Tseng as a lucky loser, it was the largest age difference ever in a Challenger match, with Matsui being the oldest player at 41 years old, with an ATP ranking.^[3]

He represented Japan in three Davis Cup ties between 2006 and 2010, his win–loss record is 4–1. Plus Matsui participated in the first 2 editions of ATP Cup in 2020–2021 as a member of Team Japan. Matsui holds the record as the oldest player in ATP Cup history.

In February 2024, Matsui achieved his highest ranking in doubles, no.123, at the age of 45; he later improved this to 121 on 27 May 2024, aged 46.^[4]

Records

Description	Record	Players matched
Championships
Current oldest active player on ATP Tour in singles	Born 19 April 1978	Stands alone
Oldest player in ATP Cup history played a match	42y 9m 18d	Stands alone
Oldest Japanese player winning a Japanese national championship title in any category	44y 6m 11d	Stands alone
Most years btw the 1st and last title at Japanese national championships (in all categories)	17 years (Men's Doubles 2005,2022)	Stands alone
Most years btw the 1st and last title at Japanese national championships in Men's Doubles category^[5]	17 years (2005,2022)	Stands alone
Most years btw the 1st and last final at Japanese national championships in Men's Doubles category^[6]	17 years (2005,2022)	Stands alone
The longest span btw 2 titles at Japanese national championships in Men's Doubles category^[7]	12 years (2009,2021)	Stands alone

Personal life

Based in Kashiwa,^[8] Matsui speaks Japanese and English fluently. In 2010, he was married to a former professional tennis player Tomoyo Takagishi, they have 2 children.

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 11 (2–9)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
ITF Futures Tour (2–8)

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

Result	W–L	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Japan F9, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Michael Yani	7–6^(8–6), 6–3
Loss	1–1	Sri Lanka F2, Colombo	Futures	Clay	Go Soeda	6–4, 5–7, 5–7
Loss	1–2	Chikmagalur, India	Challenger	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	5–7, 4–6
Loss	1–3	Japan F8, Osaka	Futures	Hard	Yuichi Ito	1–6, 6–2, 4–6
Loss	1–4	Korea Rep. F2, Changwon	Futures	Hard	Matthew Ebden	4–6, 5–7
Loss	1–5	Great Britain F12, London	Futures	Hard	Colin Fleming	6–4, 3–6, 1–6
Loss	1–6	Japan F7, Tokyo	Futures	Carpet	Hiroki Kondo	6–7^(4–7), 6–7^(5–7)
Loss	1–7	Cambodia F3, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Chen Ti	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–7	Thailand F5, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	6–4, 6–1
Loss	2–8	Cambodia F3, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Huang Liang-chi	5–7, 4–6
Loss	2–9	Japan F6, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Lee Duck-hee	4–6, 2–6

Doubles: 50 (23–29)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (10–16)
ITF Futures Tour (13–14)

Titles by surface
Hard (21–30)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Japan F6, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Lu Yen-hsun	Peter Handoyo Suwandi Suwandi	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Busan, Korea, Rep.	Challenger	Hard	Michihisa Onoda	Baek Seung-bok Park Seung-kyu	6–1, 6–3
Win	2–1	Mexico F9, Quintana Roo	Futures	Hard	Michihisa Onoda	Paul Capdeville Sebastián Decoud	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–2	Korea Rep. F2, Daegu	Futures	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	Yu Xinyuan Zeng Shaoxuan	3–6, 7–5, 3–6
Loss	2–3	Yokohama, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	Hiroki Kondo Go Soeda	7–6^(7–5), 3–6, [9–11]
Loss	2–4	Korea Rep. F3, Daegu	Futures	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	Kim Young-jun Kwon Oh-hee	6–3, 6–7^(5–7), [7–10]
Loss	2–5	Busan, Korea, Rep.	Challenger	Hard	Tasuku Iwami	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 2–6
Win	3–5	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Brendan Evans	Gong Maoxin Li Zhe	3–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Win	4–5	Guam F1, Tumon	Futures	Hard	Tasuku Iwami	Ruben Gonzales Christian Guevara	3–6, 7–5, [10–4]
Loss	4–6	China F5, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Yusuke Watanuki	Gao Peng Gao Wan	4–6, 4–6
Loss	4–7	Japan F9, Ōarai	Futures	Hard	Yi Chu-huan	An Jae-sung Arata Onozawa	6–2, 1–6, [6–10]
Win	5–7	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Challenger	Hard	Sam Groth	Artem Sitak Jose Statham	7–6^(8–6), 1–6, [10–4]
Loss	5–8	India F6, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Bumpei Sato	Sriram Balaji Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	1–6, 4–6
Loss	5–9	Japan F8, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Bumpei Sato	Hiroki Kondo Jose Statham	4–6, 2–6
Win	6–9	Beijing, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	Gong Maoxin Zhang Ze	4–6, 7–6^(8–6), [10–8]
Loss	6–10	China F6, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Lim Yong-kyu	Sriram Balaji Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	5–7, 6–7^(4–7)
Loss	6–11	Cambodia F2, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	6–7^(10–12), 6–7^(8–10)
Loss	6–12	Burnie, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	Matt Reid John-Patrick Smith	4–6, 2–6
Win	7–12	Japan F1, Tokyo	Futures	Hard	Arata Onozawa	Shintaro Imai Takao Suzuki	6–4, 7–5
Loss	7–13	Japan F3, Kōfu	Futures	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	4–6, 2–6
Win	8–13	Toyota, Japan	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Yasutaka Uchiyama	Bumpei Sato Yang Tsung-hua	7–6^(8–6), 6–2
Loss	8–14	New Delhi, India	Challenger	Hard	Riccardo Ghedin	Egor Gerasimov Alexander Kudryavtsev	7–6^(7–5), 4–6, [6–10]
Loss	8–15	Indonesia F1, Tarakan	Futures	Hard (i)	Christopher Rungkat	Matt Seeberger Finn Tearney	2–6, 6–1, [8–10]
Win	9–15	Indonesia F2, Tegal	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Aditya Hari Sasongko Sunu Wahyu Trijati	6–4, 6–2
Win	10–15	Indonesia F3, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Danai Udomchoke	6–4, 6–2
Win	11–15	Thailand F1, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Win	12–15	Thailand F4, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 6–3, [10–2]
Win	13–15	Thailand F6, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Benjamin Mitchell Jordan Thompson	4–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss	13–16	Thailand F7, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Pruchya Isaro Nuttanon Kadchapanan	4–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	14–16	Japan F1, Tokyo	Futures	Hard	Yuya Kibi	Huang Liang-chi Ben McLachlan	6–3, 6–1
Loss	14–17	Japan F3, Kōfu	Futures	Hard	Yuya Kibi	Shintaro Imai Takuto Niki	1–6, 2–6
Win	15–17	Guam F1, Tumon	Futures	Hard	Andrew Whittington	Sho Katayama Yutaro Matsuzaki	6–3, 3–6, [10–8]
Loss	15–18	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Yannick Jankovits Luca Margaroli	4–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Win	16–18	Japan F6, Karuizawa	Futures	Clay	Christopher Rungkat	Shintaro Imai Takuto Niki	7–5, 6–2
Win	17–18	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Evgeny Karlovskiy Evgenii Tiurnev	7–6^(7–3), 6–7^(5–7), [10–7]
Win	18–18	Shanghai, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Yi Chu-huan	Bradley Klahn Peter Polansky	7–6^(7–1), 4–6, [10–5]
Win	19–18	Seoul, Korea, Rep.	Challenger	Hard	Frederik Nielsen	Chen Ti Yi Chu-huan	6–4, 7–6^(7–3)
Loss	19–19	Charlottesville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Frederik Nielsen	Harri Heliövaara Henri Laaksonen	3–6, 4–6
Win	20–19	Knoxville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Frederik Nielsen	Hunter Reese Tennys Sandgren	7–6^(8–6), 7–5
Loss	20–20	Busan, Korea, Rep.	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Hsieh Cheng-peng Christopher Rungkat	6–7^(7–9), 1–6
Loss	20–21	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Kaito Uesugi	Grigoriy Lomakin Oleg Prihodko	5–7, 6–3, [5–10]
Win	21–21	M25 Harmon, Guam	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Nam Ji-sung Song Min-kyu	6–3, 0–6, [10–7]
Win	22–21	Japan M25 Kashiwa Open	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Naoki Tajima Seita Watanabe	6–3, 4–6, [10–5]
Loss	22–22	Matsuyama, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Andrew Harris John-Patrick Smith	3–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Loss	22–23	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Colin Sinclair Rubin Statham	4–6, 3–6
Loss	22–24	Pune, India	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Anirudh Chandrasekar Vijay Sundar Prashanth	1–6, 6–4, [3–10]
Loss	22–25	Palmas del Mar, Puerto Rico	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Evan King Reese Stalder	6–3, 5–7, [9–11]
Loss	22–26	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	S D Prajwal Dev Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha	6–3, 7-6^(4–7)
Win	23–26	Porto, Portugal	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Arjun Kadhe	6–7^(5–7), 6–3, [10–5]
Loss	23–27	Matsuyama, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Karol Drzewiecki Zdenek Kolar	3–6, 2–6
Loss	23–28	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Challenger	Hard	Calum Puttergill	Colin Sinclair Rubin Statham	5–7, 2–6
Loss	23–29	Wuxi, China	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Reese Stalder Calum Puttergill	6–7^(8–10), 6–7^(4–7)
Loss	23–30	Taipei, Taiwan	Challenger	Hard	Kaito Uesugi	Ray Ho Nam Ji-sung	2–6, 2–6