is a retired Japanese
tennis
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player. She competed in singles in the
French Open
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twice and in the
U.S. Open once. Competing with her sister
Kazuko Sawamatsu
Kazuko Sawamatsu ( ja, 沢松和子, born 5 January 1951) is a retired tennis player from Japan.
She competed in a number of major LTA tournaments in the 1970s on the world circuit. At the 1975 Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals as w ...
in ladies doubles, she reached the quarterfinals of
Wimbledon
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in 1970, losing to eventual champions
Rosie Casals
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Casals earned her reputation as a rebel in the tennis world when she began competing in the early 1960s. During a tennis career that spanned mor ...
and
Billie Jean King
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.
She competed for the
Japanese Federation Cup team in 1970 and 1971.
Sawamatsu is the mother of professional tennis player
Naoko Sawamatsu
is a former professional tennis player.
In her career, she won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. Sawamatsu reached a career-high ranking of world No. 14, on 6 February 1995. At the time of the 1995 Australian Open, her family survived the Gr ...
.
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1948 births
Japanese female tennis players
Universiade medalists in tennis
Living people
Universiade silver medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
20th-century Japanese women
21st-century Japanese women
Sportspeople from Nishinomiya