Hitoshi Shirato (born 19 October 1958) is a Japanese former professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Biography
Born in 1958, Shirato was a leading Japanese player of the 1980s.
Shirato, a right-handed player, featured in a total of 10
Davis Cup ties for Japan. He won three Davis Cup singles rubbers, including one against India's
Ramesh Krishnan
Ramesh Krishnan (born 5 June 1961) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from India. As a junior player in the late 1970s, he won the singles titles at both, Wimbledon and the French Open. He went on to reach three Grand S ...
in 1983.
During his career he competed in the doubles main draw at both the
Australian Open and
Wimbledon. His best performance was a third round appearance in the mixed doubles at the
1986 Wimbledon Championships
The 1986 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 100th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from ...
.
See also
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List of Japan Davis Cup team representatives
References
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1958 births
Living people
Japanese male tennis players
20th-century Japanese people