is a retired professional

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player from

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. Iwabuchi won one

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doubles title in his career, the 2005 Japan Open, where he and

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defeated

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and Todd Perry in straight sets 5–4⁽³⁾, 5–4⁽¹³⁾. As of May 17, 2009, Iwabuchi's highest singles ranking was world number 223, which he reached on October 20, 2003.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 28 (11–7)

Doubles: 31 (14–17)

Performance timeline

Singles

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* * * * * 1975 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Japan Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in tennis Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games Sportspeople from Kanagawa Prefecture 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub