Misaki Doi

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Misaki Doi
土居美咲^[1]

Doi at the 2021 French Open
Country (sports)	Japan
Residence	Tokyo, Japan
Born	(1991-04-29) 29 April 1991 (age 30) Ōamishirasato, Japan
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	2006
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Christian Zahalka
Prize money	US$3,304,063
Singles
Career record	366–335 (52.2%)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 30 (10 October 2016)
Current ranking	No. 102 (13 September 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	4R (2016)
US Open	2R (2015, 2021)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2021)
Doubles
Career record	129–108 (54.4%)
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 77 (24 May 2021)
Current ranking	No. 80 (30 August 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2020)
French Open	2R (2013, 2020, 2021)
Wimbledon	2R (2017, 2021)
US Open	2R (2017)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	31–10 (75.6%)
Last updated on: 08:56, 31 August 2021 (UTC).

Misaki Doi (土居 美咲, Doi Misaki, born 29 April 1991) is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are World No. 30 in singles and No. 77 in doubles.^[2]

Doi reached two junior Grand Slam doubles finals – at Wimbledon in 2007 with Kurumi Nara, and at the Australian Open in 2008, with Elena Bogdan (losing both). She has made it to three WTA tournament finals (only winning one). She is managed by Muse Group, a sports marketing agency based in Tokyo.

Junior career[]

Doi began playing tennis at the age of three. She first distinguished herself in tennis as a middle-school student, reaching the semifinals of the All Japan Middle School Tennis Championships in both 2004 and 2006 and joining the ITF Junior Circuit in 2006. In 2007, while enrolled as a freshman in Sundai Kōei High School, Doi earned second place in the Japan Open Junior Championships in Nagoya.

A highlight of Doi's junior career was her successful doubles partnership with age-mate Kurumi Nara. They placed second in girls' doubles at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, becoming only the second Japanese pair to reach the finals of a Grand Slam juniors event since Yuka Yoshida and Hiroko Mochizuki at the 1993 US Open. Doi and Nara continued their run by advancing to the girls' doubles semifinals at a number of high-profile tournaments, such as the 2007 US Open and Wimbledon 2008. Doi also teamed with Romanian Elena Bogdan to place second in girls' doubles at the 2008 Australian Open. This flurry of successes catapulted Doi to No. 3 in Japan's under-18 tennis rankings for 2007; she had been recognized early on as one of Japan's rising stars in junior tennis.

2008 marked Doi's first participation in ITF Women's Circuit events. She partnered with Kurumi Nara again for the 2008 ITF event in Miyazaki, where they upset top-seeded sisters Erika and Yurika Sema, 3–6, 6–3, [10–6] in the second round. Doi and Nara went on to triumph over Kimiko Date-Krumm and Tomoko Yonemura in the finals.

Professional career[]

2006–09: First ITF title and qualifiers on WTA Tour[]

Doi officially turned pro in June 2006, at the age of 15.^[3] In 2009, she focused primarily on Japanese tournaments, where she earned two first-place and two second-place finishes in singles and one second-place result in doubles. In March 2009, she won her first ITF title at the $10k Kofu event. In October, she made her tour debut in the qualifiers of the Japan Open, falling to American Abigail Spears in the second qualifying round.^[4] Doi was seeded sixth in the women's singles draw of the All Japan Tennis Championships. She lost in straight sets to Akiko Morigami in the round of 16. Her performance in 2009's events lifted Doi from a year-opening ranking of No. 613 to a year-end mark of No. 199 and a place among the top 10-players in Japanese tennis.

2010: First Grand Slam qualification[]

In 2010, Doi began playing professional tournaments outside Japan. She appeared in the women's singles qualifiers for that year's Australian Open. Doi then made appearances at several circuit tournaments, placing second in singles at Irapuato, Mexico in March. In doubles, she recorded three second-place finishes in as many weeks in April tournaments at Incheon, Gimhae, and Changwon, South Korea, with partner Junri Namigata. With new partner Kotomi Takahata, Doi won her first $50k title in doubles at the Fukuoka International in May, defeating Marina Erakovic and Alexandra Panova in straight sets.^[5]

Her success continued in the qualifying rounds of the French Open, where she defeated Mandy Minella and upset Michelle Larcher de Brito to reach the qualifier finals. With her victory over Vitalia Diatchenko, Doi had earned a spot in her first major tournament main draw, where she lost to Polona Hercog in the first round.^[6] She finished the year with a first-place performance in the All Japan Tennis Championships women's singles.

2011: First Grand Slam main-draw win[]

Doi's Grand Slam results improved in 2011, when she qualified for Wimbledon and had her first win in Grand Slam tournament against Bethanie Mattek-Sands. She went on to defeat Zheng Jie before losing in the third round to Sabine Lisicki.^[7]

2012: First quarterfinal on the WTA Tour[]

The Aegon Classic was Doi's first appearance in the quarterfinals of a singles tour event, which she reached by defeating the top seed Francesca Schiavone in two sets. Although Doi lost in the Wimbledon qualifiers to Kristina Mladenovic, she received a lucky loser berth in the main tournament. She was defeated by her first-round opponent Arantxa Rus.

After failing to qualify for the main draws of the US Open and Pan Pacific Open, Doi found success at the Japan Open, where she defeated Chanelle Scheepers in three sets to reach her first tour semifinal.

2013: Main-draw appearance at all Grand Slam tournaments[]

2013 marked the first year in which Doi qualified for all four Grand Slam tournaments. In the Australian Open, she reached the second round after a two-set victory over Petra Martić before losing 0–6, 0–6 to Maria Sharapova. She lost in the first round in the other three Grand Slam events. At the French Open she faced Madison Keys; at Wimbledon Sílvia Soler Espinosa; and at the US Open Petra Kvitová.

2016: Wimbledon round of 16, top 30 debut[]

Doi at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships

At the Australian Open, Doi played the seventh seed Angelique Kerber in the first round, winning the first set and holding a match point in the second-set tie-break before eventually losing in three sets. Kerber went on to win the title. On 16 May, she achieved a new career-high ranking of World No. 38 after a quarterfinal appearance in Rome.

Doi then competed at the Birmingham Classic, losing to Johanna Konta. Doi reached the last 16 of Wimbledon, beating Louisa Chirico, Karolína Plíšková and Anna-Lena Friedsam before losing to Kerber in straight sets. She was the first Japanese player to reach the fourth round of the ladies draw since Ai Sugiyama ten years earlier.

Doi made her top 30 debut on 10 October 2016.

Personal[]

Doi is coached by Christian Zahalka since April 2015. Her most admired players are Justine Henin and Shingo Kunieda.^[8] She uses a Srixon racquet and ASICS shoes, prefers to play on hard courts, and favors her forehand and serve.

Performance timelines[]

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win/loss records.^[9]

Singles[]

Current after the 2021 US Open.

Doubles[]

Notes

WTA career finals[]

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2015	Luxembourg Open	International	Hard (i)	Mona Barthel	6–4, 6–7(7–9), 6–0
Loss	1–1	Feb 2016	Taiwan Open	International	Hard	Venus Williams	4–6, 2–6
Loss	1–2	Sep 2019	Japan Open	International	Hard	Nao Hibino	3–6, 2–6

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2014	İstanbul Cup, Turkey	International	Hard	Elina Svitolina	Oksana Kalashnikova Paula Kania	6–4, 6–0
Loss	1–1	Sep 2015	Japan Open	International	Hard	Kurumi Nara	Chan Yung-jan Chan Hao-ching	1–6, 2–6
Win	2–1	Sep 2019	Japan Open	International	Hard	Nao Hibino	Christina McHale Valeria Savinykh	3–6, 6–4, [10–4]

WTA 125K series finals[]

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2015	Taipei Open, Taiwan	Carpet (i)	Tímea Babos	5–7, 3–6
Win	1–1	Mar 2016	San Antonio Open, United States	Hard	Anna-Lena Friedsam	6–4, 6–4
Win	2–1	Jul 2019	Båstad Open, Sweden	Clay	Danka Kovinić	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–2	Mar 2020	Indian Wells Challenger, U.S.	Hard	Irina-Camelia Begu	3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2013	Nanjing Open, China	Hard	Xu Yifan	Zhang Shuai Yaroslava Shvedova	6–1, 6–4
Win	2–0	Jan 2018	Newport Beach Challenger, U.S.	Hard	Jil Teichmann	Jamie Loeb Rebecca Peterson	7–6(7–4), 1–6, [10–8]
Win	3–0	Jul 2019	Båstad Open, Sweden	Clay	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	Alexa Guarachi Danka Kovinić	7–5, 6–7(4–7), [10–7]

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner–ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2009	Kōfu International Open, Japan	10,000	Hard	Erika Sema	7–5, 6–2
Win	2–0	Jul 2009	ITF Tokyo, Japan	10,000	Carpet	Sachie Ishizu	6–1, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Sep 2009	ITF Makinohara, Japan	25,000	Carpet	Hsieh Su-wei	6–2, 5–7, 6–7(4)
Loss	2–2	Oct 2009	ITF Tokachi, Japan	25,000	Carpet	Tomoko Yonemura	4–6, 6–7(3)
Loss	2–3	Mar 2010	ITF Irapuato, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Monique Adamczak	6–7(5), 6–2, 2–6
Win	3–3	Nov 2010	ITF Toyota, Japan	75,000	Carpet (i)	Junri Namigata	7–5, 6–2
Win	4–3	Apr 2014	ITF Seoul, South Korea	50,000	Hard	Misa Eguchi	6–1, 7–6(3)
Win	5–3	Jan 2015	ITF Hong Kong, China SAR	50,000	Hard	Zhang Kailin	6–3, 6–3
Win	6–3	Aug 2018	Vancouver Open, Canada	100,000	Hard	Heather Watson	6–7(4), 6–1, 6–4

Doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner–ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2008	ITF Miyazaki, Japan	25,000	Carpet	Kurumi Nara	Kimiko Date-Krumm Tomoko Yonemura	4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Loss	1–1	May 2009	Kangaroo Cup Gifu, Japan	50,000	Carpet	Kurumi Nara	Sophie Ferguson Aiko Nakamura	2–6, 1–6
Loss	1–2	Apr 2010	ITF Incheon, South Korea	25,000	Hard	Junri Namigata	Irina-Camelia Begu Erika Sema	0–6, 6–7(8)
Loss	1–3	Apr 2010	ITF Gimhae, South Korea	25,000	Hard	Junri Namigata	Chang Kyung-mi Lee Jin-a	6–1, 4–6, [8–10]
Loss	1–4	Apr 2010	ITF Changwon, Korea	25,000	Hard	Junri Namigata	Chang Kyung-mi Lee Jin-a	7–5, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	2–4	May 2010	Fukuoka International, Japan	50,000	Grass	Kotomi Takahata	Marina Erakovic Alexandra Panova	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–5	Jul 2013	Beijing International, China	75.000	Hard	Miki Miyamura	Liu Chang Zhou Yimiao	6–7(1), 4–6
Win	3–5	Nov 2013	ITF Toyota, Japan	75.000	Carpet (i)	Shuko Aoyama	Eri Hozumi Makato Ninomiya	7–6(1), 2–6, [11–9]
Loss	3–6	May 2014	ITF Gifu, Japan	75.000	Hard	Hsieh Shu-ying	Jarmila Gajdošová Arina Rodionova	3–6, 3–6
Win	4–6	Feb 2018	ITF Surprise, United States	25,000	Hard	Yanina Wickmayer	Jacqueline Cako Caitlin Whoriskey	2–6, 6–3, [10–8]

Wins over top 10-players[]

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score
2017
1.	Madison Keys	No. 10	Madrid Open, Spain	Clay	1st round	6–4, 4–6, 6–4[10]

References[]

External links[]

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