is a Japanese former professional
tennis
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player. She is a younger sister of
Haruka Inoue
is a former professional tennis player from Japan.
Biography Early life
Inoue was born in Tokyo on 7 June 1977. A right-handed baseline player, she started tennis aged nine and was coached by her father Gou. Her younger sisters, Maiko and Akari, ...
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A right-handed player, Inoue began competing on the professional tour in the late 1990s. She left the tour in 2003, before returning in 2007 and featuring as a doubles specialist.
During her career she was most successful in doubles, with a best ranking of 139. She made several
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tou ...
main draw appearances in doubles and won nine doubles titles on the
ITF circuit. As a singles player she was ranked as high as 299 in the world, winning two ITF titles.
Inoue, who retired in 2012, is married to former tennis player
Bumpei Sato.
ITF finals
Singles (2–2)
Doubles (9–11)
References
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1979 births
Living people
Japanese female tennis players
Sportspeople from Okinawa Prefecture
20th-century Japanese women
21st-century Japanese women