is a former Japanese
tennis
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player.
Iwami has a career high
ATP singles ranking of 260 achieved on 23 June 2003. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 306 achieved on 7 February 2011.
Iwami made his
ATP World Tour
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main draw debut at the
2003 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships after qualifying for the singles main draw. In 2018, he became the personal coach of
wheelchair tennis
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Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in singles. With four Paralympic gold medals, 28 major singles titles – an all-time record in singles of any tennis discipline – and 50 major titles overall, Kunieda is ...
.
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1978 births
Living people
Japanese male tennis players
Sportspeople from Fukuoka (city)
20th-century Japanese people
21st-century Japanese people
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