is a retired
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and
Japan Davis Cup team tennis player. Fukui holds the record for the most singles win for the Japanese in
Davis Cup, with 26. On tour, he won two
Challenger tennis events in singles and earned a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177, in January 1983.
Circuit career
Fukui won the
1983 Tokyo Challenger and
1985 Nagoya Challenger. His best results in a
Grand Prix tennis event was reaching the third round of the
1980 Tokyo Outdoor (now the
Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships). The only Grand Prix events he ever played in the main draw of were the Tokyo Outdoor,
Tokyo Indoor, and once in each the
Taipei Grand Prix and
Hong Kong Grand Prix. The Japan No. 1 for much of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fukui only defeated a non-Japanese opponent four times (
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,
Bruce Kleege,
Kim Warwick
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,
Mike Estep
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In 1983 ...
,
Mark Wooldridge, and
Jon Levine
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) in compiling a career singles win-lose record of 10 wins, 26 losses for Grand Prix events.
Fukui lost to
Tony Roche
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at the
1978 Tokyo Outdoor 7–5, 4–6, 1–6;
Ilie Năstase
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at the
1978 Tokyo Indoor 1–6, 4–6;
Yannick Noah
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at the
1979 Tokyo Indoor 2–6, 5–7;
Björn Borg at the
1980 Tokyo Indoor 2–6, 2–6;
Eliot Teltscher at the
1981 Tokyo Outdoor 1–6, 2–6;
John McEnroe
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at the
1981 Tokyo Indoor 3–6, 2–6;
Miloslav Mečíř, Sr. at the
1987 Tokyo Outdoor 5–7, 1–6; and
Stefan Edberg at the
1987 Tokyo Indoor 5–7, 2–6. His best win was the one over Kim Warwick, a top 50 player, at the
1982 Hong Kong Grand Prix, 7–5, 1–6, 7–6.
In doubles, Fukui competed in one
Grand Slam event main draw, the
1980 French Open. He and partner
Peter Holl defeated
Jean Luc Cotard and
Thierry Tulasne in the first round but lost their next match to
Heinz Günthardt and
Pavel Složil. His best showing in the Grand Prix tourney was reaching the third round of the
1979 Tokyo Outdoor, partnering Davis Cup teammate
Jun Kamiwazumi. He won no doubles titles on tour and earned a career-high ranking of World No. 355, in July 1985.
Domestically, Fukui was singles champion of the
All Japan Tennis Championships a record 7 times (1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1988). He was runner-up in 1989, at age 32, and doubles champion once, in 1980 and partnering Kamiwazumi.
Fukui resided in Tokyo when on the pro tour.
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1957 births
Living people
Japanese male tennis players
Sportspeople from Fukuoka Prefecture
Sportspeople from Tokyo