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
The 1975 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne in Australia and was held from 21 December 1974 to 1 January 1975. It was the 63rd edition of the Australian Open and t ...
, she reached the quarterfinals as well as reached the quarterfinals of the French Open and U.S. Open the same year. She also reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 1973, and won the
1975 Wimbledon ladies doubles title with partner
Ann Kiyomura
Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi (born August 22, 1955) is a retired American professional tennis player. She is from San Mateo, California.
Kiyomura played on the WTA Tour from 1973 to 1984. She played in 11 US Opens, reaching the fourth round in 1978. In ...
.
In November 1975, she won the singles title at the
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Japan Open (currently sponsored by Rakuten) is a men's tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally founded in 1915 as the Japan International Ch ...
, defeating Kiyomura in the final in three sets, and together they won the doubles title.
Sawamatsu is the sister of tennis player
Junko Sawamatsu and the aunt of
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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Grand Slam finals
Doubles (1 title)
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French Open champions
Japanese female tennis players
People from Nishinomiya
Sportspeople from Hyōgo Prefecture
Wimbledon champions
Living people
1951 births
Wimbledon junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade silver medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
20th-century Japanese women
21st-century Japanese women
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