Sho Shimabukuro (島袋将, ''Shimabukuro Sho'', born 30 July 1997) is a Japanese professional

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player. Shimabukuro has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 146 achieved on 11 September 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 438 achieved on 26 September 2022. Shimabukuro represents

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at the

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, where he has a W/L record of 1–0.

Career

2023: Maiden Challenger title, Major and top 150 debuts

Following his first two career Challengers titles, one in January and in May, he reached the top 200 at world No. 178 on 22 May 2023. In June, he defeated

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in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals of the 2023 Nottingham Open. As a result he reached a new career ranking of No. 172 on 19 June 2023. In the next grass Challenger, the 2023 Ilkley Trophy he reached also the quarterfinals as a lucky loser but retired against

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. He climbed another 10 positions to world No. 162, one week later, on 26 June 2023. He made his Grand Slam debut after qualifying for the main draw of the

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where he lost to 21th seed

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. He entered the tournament in Washington as a lucky loser an won his first career ATP tour level match defeating Lloyd Harris but lost to Chris Eubanks. He also qualified for the main draw on his debut at the US Open. He qualified for the 2023 Astana Open and defeated

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, his second career ATP tour win.https://www.reuters.com/sports/tennis/atp-roundup-adrian-mannarino-wins-astana-opener-2023-09-28/

Grand Slam performance timeline

Current through the 2023 US Open qualifying

Singles

Challenger and World Tennis Tour Finals

Singles: 8 (5–3)

Doubles: 7 (3–4)

References

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* * * 1997 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Sportspeople from Gifu Universiade medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Universiade silver medalists for Japan Asian Games competitors for Japan Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade Asian Games medalists in tennis 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub