| Full name | Kaoru Shibata |
|---|---|
| Country (sports) |  Japan |
| Born | 25 June 1973 Tokyo, Japan |
| Prize money | $52,885 |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 252 (30 September 1996) |
| Doubles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 117 (22 September 1997) |
Kaoru Shibata (born 25 June 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Japan.
Shibata was born in Tokyo, but grew up in the United States, where she moved to as a child in 1975. She attended Libertyville High School in Chicago. [1]
During the 1990s she competed on the professional tour, reaching career best rankings of 252 in singles and 117 in doubles.
At the 1995 Summer Universiade in Fukuoka she won a gold medal in the singles competition. [2]
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 4 May 1997 | Gifu, Japan | Hard | Saori Obata | Shinobu Asagoe Yasuko Nishimata | 6–3, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1 | 19 May 1997 | Sochi, Russia | Hard |  Nino Louarsabishvili |  Evgenia Kulikovskaya Ekaterina Sysoeva | 6–3, 3–6, 0–6 |
| Winner | 2. | 27 July 1997 | Peachtree City, United States | Hard |  Sonya Jeyaseelan |  Julie Pullin Amanda Wainwright | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 3 August 1997 | Lexington, United States | Hard |  Katarina Srebotnik |  Elly Hakami  Danielle Jones | 2–6, 5–7 |
| Winner | 3. | 8 June 1998 | Sochi, Russia | Hard | Saori Obata | Nino Louarsabishvili  Elena Tatarkova | 3–6, 6–4, 6–2 |
Martina Navratilova is a Czech–born American former professional tennis player. Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Navratilova won 18 major singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 59 major titles, the most in the Open Era. Alongside Chris Evert, her greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis in the 1970s and 1980s.
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters reached the world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles, having held both rankings simultaneously in 2003. She won six major titles, four in singles and two in doubles.
Ilana Sheryl Kloss is a former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and commissioner of World TeamTennis from 2001-21. She was the World's No. 1 ranked doubles player in 1976, and World No. 19 in singles in 1979. She won the Wimbledon juniors singles title in 1972, the US Open juniors singles title in 1974, and the US Open Doubles and French Open Mixed Doubles titles in 1976. She won three gold medals at the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
Julia Glushko is an Israeli retired tennis player.
Linda Harvey Wild is a retired tennis player from the United States. Born as Linda Harvey, she later used the family name of her stepfather and coach Steve Wild.
Katrina M. Adams is an American tennis executive and former professional tennis player from Chicago. She was president and CEO of the United States Tennis Association and chair of the US Open, as well as the chair of the International Tennis Federation Fed Cup and Gender Equality in Tennis committees. As a player, Adams was a doubles specialist, reaching the quarterfinal stage or better at all four Grand Slams as well as achieving a career-high doubles ranking of no. 8. Her book, Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One was published in 2021.
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was the second Australian tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in the world in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), holding the ranking for 121 weeks overall. She was also a top-10 player in doubles, having achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world. Barty is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, and the last Australian to win a Grand Slam singles title, winning at the 2022 Australian Open. She is also a major doubles champion, having won the 2018 US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe. Barty won 15 singles titles and 12 doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
Taylor Townsend is an American professional tennis player. She reached career-high WTA rankings of world No. 61 in singles and No. 6 in doubles. She also reached the doubles finals of the 2022 US Open with Caty McNally and the 2023 Miami Open with Leylah Fernandez.
The 2013 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2013 tennis season. The 2013 WTA Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation, the WTA Premier tournaments, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup, and the year-end championships. Also included in the 2013 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which was organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.
Marta Olehivna Kostyuk is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 36 in singles, achieved on 24 April, and world No. 31 in doubles, achieved on 30 January 2023. She has won one singles WTA Tour title at the 2023 ATX Open and one doubles WTA title at the 2022 Slovenia Open.
Caroline Dolehide is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 99 in May 2023. Her best performances on the WTA Tour came in doubles at the 2019 and the 2022 US Open events where she reached semifinals with Vania King and Storm Sanders, respectively, and also at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. Dolehide has a career-high doubles ranking of 21, set in May 2022, and has won one WTA Tour title and 15 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, six in singles and nine in doubles.
The 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF); the WTA Premier tournaments ; the WTA International tournaments; the Fed Cup and the year-end championships. Also included in the 2018 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.
Clara Tauson is a Danish professional tennis player. In 2016, at age 13, she became the youngest Danish champion in tennis. Caroline Wozniacki held the previous record when she won at age 14. Her career-high rankings are world No. 33 in singles and No. 432 in doubles reached in February 2022. She has won two WTA titles both on hardcourt indoors.
Anne Mall is a former professional tennis player from the United States. In Fed Cup, however, she played for Ireland.
Martina Pawlik is a former professional tennis player from Germany.
Joanne Limmer is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
The 2020 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2020 tennis season. The 2020 WTA Tour calendar originally comprised the Grand Slam tournaments supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the WTA Premier tournaments, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup, and the year-end championships.
Saki Shibata is a Japanese table tennis player.
The 2021 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2021 tennis season. The 2021 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup, and the year-end championships. Also included in the 2021 calendar are the Summer Olympic Games, which were rescheduled from 2020.
The 2022 WTA Tour was the global elite women's professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2022 tennis season. The 2022 WTA Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup, and the year-end championships.
