Nami_Urabe

Nami Urabe
Country (sports)	Japan
Born	29 August 1978 (age 45); Saitama, Japan
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$30,693
Singles
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 399 (4 May 1998)
Doubles
Career titles	8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 176 (24 November 1997)

Nami Urabe

Japanese tennis player

Nami Urabe (born 29 August 1978) is a Japanese former professional tennis player.

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Born in Saitama, Urabe was one of Japan's top players in junior tennis, reaching the girls' doubles final of the 1995 Australian Open with partner Saori Obata.^[1]

Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a quarterfinal appearance in the doubles draw at the 1995 Japan Women's Open and she won eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

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"Richardson falls to elated Japanese". The Canberra Times. 16 March 1995. p. 19. Retrieved 27 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

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Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	2 October 1995	Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Trudi Musgrave	Yoshiko Sasano Keiko Nagatomi	0–6, 6–7⁽⁵⁾
Winner	1.	23 October 1995	Kyoto, Japan	Hard	Trudi Musgrave	Tomoe Hotta Eiko Toba	3–6, 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	8 January 1996	San Antonio, United States	Hard	Saori Obata	Pam Nelson Nóra Köves	6–2, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	25 March 1996	Bandung, Indonesia	Hard	Saori Obata	Chen Jingjing Li Li	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	30 June 1997	Mont-de-Marsan, France	Hard	Saori Obata	Katalin Marosi Veronica Stele	4–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	15 September 1997	Ibaraki 1, Japan	Hard	Surina De Beer	Riei Kawamata Yoshiko Sasano	6–2, 6–3
Winner	4.	22 September 1997	Ibaraki 2, Japan	Hard	Surina De Beer	Shizu Katsumi Kyoko Kojima	6–3, 6–3
Winner	5.	5 October 1997	Kyoto, Japan	Carpet	Surina De Beer	Yumiko Kitamura Natsumi Yuki	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	10 October 1997	Saga, Japan	Grass	Surina De Beer	Danielle Jones Saori Obata	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	23 February 1998	Mumbai, India	Hard	Yoriko Yamagishi	Chen Jingjing Yang Qin	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 2–6
Winner	6.	27 September 1999	Kyoto, Japan	Carpet	Keiko Ishida	Yuki Fujii Yumiko Kitamura	6–1, 6–3
Winner	7.	3 September 2001	Kugayama, Japan	Hard	Seiko Okamoto	Melissa Dowse Samantha Stosur	6–4, 2–6, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	26 September 2001	Kyoto, Japan	Hard	Seiko Okamoto	Melissa Dowse Samantha Stosur	3–6, 6–3, 2–6
Runner-up	7.	21 October 2002	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Keiko Taguchi	Haruka Inoue Maiko Inoue	1–6, 2–6
Winner	8.	23 September 2003	Hiroshima, Japan	Grass	Tomoko Taira	Satomi Kinjo Akiko Yonemura	6–3, 6–3

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Nami Urabe

ITF finals

Doubles: 15 (8–7)

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