Erika Sema

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Erika Sema
瀬間 詠里花

Country (sports)	Japan
Residence	Tokyo, Japan
Born	(1988-11-24) November 24, 1988 (age 32) Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	US$ 407,040
Singles
Career record	413–371 (52.7%)
Career titles	10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 114 (10 October 2011)
Current ranking	No. 566 (9 August 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2011, 2013)
French Open	Q2 (2012)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2011, 2012, 2013)
US Open	Q2 (2013)
Doubles
Career record	359–251 (58.9%)
Career titles	31 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 120 (28 October 2013)
Current ranking	No. 276 (9 August 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	Q1 (2012)
Last updated on: 13 August 2021.

Erika Sema (瀬間 詠里花, Sema Erika, born 24 November 1988)^[1] is a Japanese professional tennis player.

Her coach is Shunsuke Ogata. She is the younger sister of Yurika Sema who retired from professional tennis in November 2015. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French.^{[citation needed]}

Sema, who is playing on the WTA Tour but mostly on the ITF Circuit, has tried for 16 times to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, without success.

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles 16 (10 titles, 6 runner-ups)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	Mar 2007	ITF Hamilton, New Zealand	Hard	Anna Smith	6–3, 7–5
Win	2.	Jun 2007	ITF Tokyo, Japan	Hard		6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Loss	3.	Mar 2009	ITF Kofu, Japan	Hard	Misaki Doi	5–7, 2–6
Loss	4.	May 2009	ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard,	Ayu-Fani Damayanti	5–7, 3–6
Win	5.	Jun 2009	ITF Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Erika Takao	6–4, 6–0
Loss	6.	Sep 2010	ITF Hamanako, Japan	Hard	Kumiko Iijima	7–6, 2–6, 4–6
Win	7.	Oct 2010	ITF Port Pirie, Australia	Hard	Victoria Larrière	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Win	8.	Oct 2010	ITF Mount Gambier, Australia	Hard	Ana Clara Duarte	6–2, 6–3
Win	9.	Nov 2010	ITF Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Elitsa Kostova	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Win	10.	May 2011	ITF Niigata, Japan	Hard	Sachie Ishizu	7–6, 6–4
Loss	11.	Sep 2011	ITF Ningbo, China	Hard	Anastasiya Yakimova	6–7, 3–6
Loss	12.	Oct 2011	ITF Makinohara, Japan	Carpet	Karolína Plíšková	7–6, 2–6, 0–6
Win	13.	Oct 2012	ITF Seoul, Korea	Hard	Mai Minokoshi	6–1, 7–5
Loss	14.	Sep 2013	ITF Tsukuba, Japan	Hard	Nao Hibino	4–6, 6–7
Win	15.	Sep 2013	ITF Incheon, Korea	Hard	Yurika Sema	6–3, 6–4
Win	16.	Jun 2015	ITF Kashiwa, Japan	Hard	Riko Sawayanagi	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 58 (31 titles, 27 runner-ups)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	Jul 2005	ITF Kurume, Japan	Carpet	Ayumi Morita	Chan Chin-wei Hsieh Su-wei	4–6, 3–6
Win	2.	Oct 2007	ITF Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Courtney Nagle Robin Stephenson	6–2, 6–2
Loss	3.	May 2008	ITF Kurume, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Chang Kai-chen Hwang I-hsuan	3–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Win	4.	May 2008	ITF Nagano, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Ayaka Maekawa	7–6(1), 6–3
Win	5.	May 2008	ITF Gunma, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Chang Kai-chen Hwang I-hsuan	6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
Loss	6.	May 2009	ITF Tarakan, Indonesia	Hard		Beatrice Gumulya Jessy Rompies	6–7(5), 7–6(4), [7–10]
Loss	7.	May 2009	ITF Gunma, Japan	Carpet	Yurika Sema	Hsu Wen-hsin Mari Tanaka	3–6, 6–1, [7–10]
Win	8.	Sep 2009	ITF Makinohara, Japan	Carpet	Kurumi Nara	Mari Tanaka Tomoko Yonemura	6–0, 6–0
Loss	9.	Oct 2009	ITF Mount Gambier, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Olivia Rogowska Emily Webley-Smith	1–6, 7–5, [7–10]
Win	10.	Oct 2009	ITF Port Pirie, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Alenka Hubacek Bojana Bobusic	6–1, 7–5, [10–6]
Win	11.	Apr 2010	ITF Incheon, South Korea	Hard	Irina-Camelia Begu	Misaki Doi Junri Namigata	6–0, 7–6(8)
Win	12.	May 2010	ITF Gifu, Japan	Hard	Tomoko Yonemura	Ksenia Lykina Melanie South	6–3, 2–6, [10–7]
Loss	13.	Jul 2010	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Magdalena Kiszczyńska	Mandy Minella Irena Pavlovic	3–6, 4–6
Win	14.	Jul 2010	ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany	Clay	Teodora Mirčić	Elena Bogdan Andrea Koch Benvenuto	7–6(4), 2–6, [10–8]
Loss	15.	Jul 2010	ITF Darmstadt, Germany	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	Vitalia Diatchenko Laura Siegemund	6–4, 1–6, [4–10]
Loss	16.	Aug 2010	ITF Hechingen, Germany	Clay	Julia Schruff	Irina-Camelia Begu Anaïs Laurendon	2–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Win	17.	Aug 2010	ITF Versmold, Germany	Clay	Hana Birnerová	Olga Panova	6–3, 6–3
Win	18.	Sep 2010	ITF Alison Springs, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Alison Bai Emelyn Starr	7–5, 6–1
Win	19.	Sep 2010	ITF Hamanako, Japan	Clay	Kumiko Iijima	Kao Shao-yuan Ayaka Maekawa	6–2, 6–1
Loss	20.	Apr 2011	ITF Osprey, United States	Clay	María Irigoyen	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon Alexa Glatch	6–4, 5–7, [7–10]
Loss	21.	Apr 2011	ITF Gifu, Japan	Hard	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	Chan Yung-jan Chan Hao-ching	2–6, 3–6
Win	22.	May 2011	ITF Niigata, Japan	Hard	Natsumi Hamamura	Ayumi Oka	6–1, 6–2
Win	23.	Jun 2011	ITF Périgueux, France	Clay	Florencia Molinero	Leticia Costas-Moreira Inés Ferrer Suárez	6–2, 3–6, [10–7]
Loss	24.	Jul 2011	ITF Biarritz, France	Clay	Roxane Vaisemberg	Alexandra Panova Urszula Radwańska	2–6, 1–6
Loss	25.	Jul 2011	ITF Contrexéville, France	Clay	Roxane Vaisemberg	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Kateryna Kozlova	6–2, 5–7, [10–12]
Win	26.	Mar 2012	ITF Sanya, China	Hard	Zheng Saisai	Liang Chen Zhou Yimiao	6–2, 6–2
Win	27.	Aug 2012	ITF Bronx, United States	Hard	Shuko Aoyama	Eri Hozumi Miki Miyamura	6–4, 7–6(4)
Win	28.	Jan 2013	ITF Burnie, Australia	Hard	Shuko Aoyama	Bojana Bobusic Jessica Moore	w/o
Win	29.	Apr 2013	ITF Gifu, Japan	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	Nao Hibino Riko Sawayanagi	6–4, 6–3
Win	30.	May 2013	ITF Fukuoka, Japan	Grass	Junri Namigata	Rika Fujiwara Akiko Omae	7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	31.	Jun 2013	ITF Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Julia Glushko	Julie Coin Stéphanie Foretz	2–6, 4–6
Win	32.	Oct 2013	ITF Perth, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Monique Adamczak Tammi Patterson	7–5, 6–1
Win	33.	Oct 2013	ITF Bendigo, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	Monique Adamczak Olivia Rogowska	3–6, 6–2, [11–9]
Loss	34.	Feb 2014	ITF New Delhi, India	Hard	Yurika Sema	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6–7, 3–6
Loss	35.	Mar 2014	ITF Jackson, United States	Clay	Yurika Sema	Chanel Simmonds Maša Zec Peškirič	7–6, 3–6, [5–10]
Win	36.	Jul 2015	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Akiko Omae	Kanae Hisami Kotomi Takahata	6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
Loss	37.	Oct 2016	ITF Makinohara, Japan	Carpet	Rika Fujiwara	Ksenia Lykina Riko Sawayanagi	4–6, 1–6
Loss	38.	Feb 2017	ITF Clare, Australia	Hard	Alison Bai	Beatriz Haddad Maia	4–6, 3–6
Win	39.	Mar 2017	ITF Yokohama, Japan	Hard	Ayaka Okuno		6–4, 6–4
Loss	40.	Mar 2017	ITF Nishitama, Japan	Hard	Shiho Akita	Momoko Kobori Kotomi Takahata	1–6, 2–6
Loss	41.	May 2017	Jin'an Open, China	Hard		Jiang Xinyu Tang Qianhui	5–7, 4–6
Loss	42.	Sep 2017	ITF Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Jennifer Elie	Naiktha Bains Abigail Tere-Apisah	4–6, 1–6
Loss	43.	Jan 2018	Playford International, Australia	Hard	Junri Namigata	Dalila Jakupović Irina Khromacheva	6–2, 5–7, [5–10]
Win	44.	May 2018	ITF Wuhan, China	Hard	Mai Minokoshi	Guo Hanyu Zhang Ying	6–4, 6–1
Loss	45.	Jul 2018	ITF Granby, Canada	Hard		Ellen Perez Arina Rodionova	5–7, 4–6
Loss	46.	May 2019	Jin'an Open, China	Hard	Mai Minokoshi	Beatrice Gumulya You Xiaodi	1–6, 5–7
Win	47.	May 2019	ITF Wuhan, China	Hard	Jiang Xinyu	Guo Meiqi	7–6(3), 6–2
Win	48.	Jul 2019	ITF Qujing, China	Hard	Mana Ayukawa	Kang Jiaqi Peangtarn Plipuech	6–2, 6–3
Loss	49.	Aug 2019	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Wu Meixu	Eudice Chong Aldila Sutjiadi	2–6, 1–6
Win	50.	Aug 2019	ITF Tsukuba, Japan	Hard	Mana Ayukawa		6–7(2), 6–1, [10–7]
Loss	51.	Sep 2019	ITF Changsha, China	Clay	Rutuja Bhosale	Jiang Xinyu Tang Qianhui	3–6, 6–3, [9–11]
Win	52.	Feb 2020	ITF Perth, Australia	Hard		Jaimee Fourlis Erin Routliffe	7–5, 6–4
Win	53.	Feb 2020	ITF Perth, Australia	Hard	Kanako Morisaki	Paige Hourigan Abigail Tere-Apisah	6–1, 4–6, [10–7]
Win	54.	Feb 2021	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard		Miyabi Inoue Liang En-shuo	2–6, 6–0, [14–12]
Win	55.	Feb 2021	ITF Sharm El Sheikh	Hard		Kajsa Rinaldo Persson	6–1, 1–6, [10–6]
Win	56.	Mar 2021	ITF Sharm El Sheikh	Hard	Anna Sisková	Ayano Shimizu	1–6, 6–4, ret.
Loss	57.	Apr 2021	Monastir, Tunisia	Hard	Emma Davis	Eva Vedder Stéphanie Visscher	0–6, 4–6
Loss	58.	May 2021	Monastir, Tunisia	Hard	Angelica Raggi	Lauren Proctor Anna Ulyashchenko	6–4, 6–7(5), [7–10]

References[]

External links[]

• Erika Sema at the Women's Tennis Association
• Erika Sema at the International Tennis Federation