Kimiko Date Krumm

Japanese Born 1970 163 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (10)vs Conchita Martinez (8)vs Lindsay Davenport (8)vs Steffi Graf (8)vs Naoko Sawamatsu (8)vs Gabriela Sabatini (7)

Match log

2017

TokyoHard, September
R32LAleksandra Krunic0-6 0-6

2016

Australian Open, qualifyingHard, January
Q1LAmandine Hesse2-6 7-6 4-6

2015

SeoulHard, September
R16LSloane Stephens3-6 4-6
R32WAjla Tomljanovic6-1 6-2
TokyoHard, September
R16LAjla Tomljanovic6-7(5) 3-6
R32WMisaki Doi6-4 6-2
US Open, qualifyingHard, August
Q1LCatherine Cartan Bellis6-4 1-6 4-6
StanfordHard, August
R16LKarolina Pliskova5-7 2-6
R32WSabine Lisicki1-6 7-6(4) 6-2
Q2WGabriela Dabrowski6-4 6-1
Q1WNaomi Osaka6-7(3) 6-4 6-3
Wimbledon, qualifyingGrass, June
Q1LOlga Govortsova4-6 6-7(3)
Nottingham, qualifyingGrass, June
Q2LAlla Kudryavtseva6-4 5-7 5-7
Q1WShuko Aoyama6-1 6-4
Roland Garros, qualifyingClay, May
Q1LTereza Mrdeza4-6 3-6
BogotaClay, April
R32LDinah Pfizenmaier2-6 5-7
Charleston, qualifyingClay, April
Q2LLaura Siegemund0-6 1-6
Q1WJulia Boserup6-1 6-1
Miami, qualifyingHard, March
Q1LChanelle Scheepers4-6 0-6
Indian Wells, qualifyingHard, March
Q1LLauren Embree2-6 2-5 RET
Acapulco, qualifyingHard, February
Q1LMakoto Ninomiya7-6(6) 2-6 0-0 RET
PattayaHard, February
R32LYuliya Beygelzimer7-5 6-7(6) 2-6
Australian OpenHard, January
R128LAnna Tatishvili5-7 4-6
Sydney, qualifyingHard, January
Q2LEvgeniya Rodina2-6 3-6
Q1WIrina Camelia Begu1-6 6-4 6-2
Brisbane, qualifyingHard, January
Q2LElizaveta Kulichkova4-6 0-6
Q1WArina Rodionova6-3 6-3

2014

Taipei, challengerCarpet, November
R32LAna Bogdan5-7 2-6
TokyoHard, September
R32LVictoria Azarenka6-3 0-6 2-6
Hong KongHard, September
R16LFrancesca Schiavone3-6 0-4 RET
R32WJohanna Larsson6-3 6-3
US OpenHard, August
R128LVenus Williams6-2 3-6 3-6
Cincinnati, qualifyingHard, August
Q1LIrina Camelia Begu6-1 2-6 4-6
Montreal, qualifyingHard, August
Q2LYulia Putintseva6-4 3-6 0-1 RET
Q1WAnett Kontaveit5-2 RET
StanfordHard, July
R32LKarolina Pliskova1-6 3-6
WimbledonGrass, June
R128LKate Makarova6-3 4-6 5-7
BirminghamGrass, June
QFLCasey Dellacqua1-6 0-6
R16WDaniela Hantuchova6-4 6-0
R32WMonica Puig2-6 6-4 7-6(7)
R64WPaula Ormaechea6-3 6-1
Roland GarrosClay, May
R128LAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova3-6 6-0 2-6
Kuala LumpurHard, April
R32LCagla Buyukakcay3-5 RET
MonterreyHard, March
SFLJovana Jaksic7-6(5) 4-6 4-6
QFWMonica Puig6-4 6-7(2) 6-4
R16WTimea Babos6-4 6-7(4) 6-4
R32WFlavia Pennetta7-5 6-2
MiamiHard, March
R128LDonna Vekic6-7(2) 2-6
Q2WFrancoise Abanda7-6(4) 4-6 6-4
Q1WAnna Tatishvili6-4 2-6 7-6(4)

Kimiko Date Krumm

Kimiko Date reached world No. 4 in November 1995, the peak of a run that took her to three Grand Slam semi-finals in three years: the Australian Open in 1994, Roland Garros in 1995 and Wimbledon in 1996, where Steffi Graf beat her 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. That April, in a Fed Cup tie in Tokyo, Date had already beaten Graf in singles 6-7, 6-3, 12-10, the only win of her career over the top-ranked German. She retired that September at 25, with 8 career titles and no plan to return.

She did, twelve years on. The comeback, announced in April 2008 at 37, looked like a novelty until she started winning: the 2009 Korea Open made her the second-oldest Open era singles champion behind Billie Jean King, and in 2010 she beat Dinara Safina at Roland Garros to become the oldest player to beat a top-10 opponent, at 39. She played into her forties, singles to 2016, doubles to 2017, before stepping away for good at 46, one of tennis's longest and strangest careers, twice over.