Asagoe, Shinobu

Hyogo 's parents are called Suichi (businessman) and Chieko (housewife). Also, the Japanese have an older brother, Kazuhiko.

Shinobu started playing tennis at age 13 (in high school).

The favorite cover of the Japanese is hard, the favorite hit is backhand. Among tennis idols, compatriot Kimiko Date distinguishes.

In October 1995, Shinobu won his first career title at the ITF 10,000 doubles in Japan, and in June 1996, the tournament of the same rank but alone, held in Taiwan. In April 1997, she made her debut in the main competitions of the WTA tour , performing in the doubles tournament in Tokyo together with Ai Sugiyama . In September of the same year, she made her way through qualification for another tournament in Tokyo and beat the 30th racket of the world Chandu Rubin in the first round, but in the next match she lost to Top 10 representative Aranche Sanchez-Vicario . In 1998, Asagoe made his debut in Grand Slam tournaments , playing in pairs at the Australian Open . In April 1999, she first played for the Japan National Team in the Federation Cup .

In June 2000, Shinobu makes his way through the qualification for the Wimbledon tournament , where he enters the second round. This allows her to rise in the single ranking in the first hundred. Even better, she performed at the US Open that season. The Japanese gets to the third round, breaking in the second resistance Patti Schnyder 7-5, 6-4. In September, she took part in the Sydney Olympics and lost Els Cullens at the start of the tournament. In October, Asagoe entered the quarter-finals at the Tokyo tournament.

At the 2001 Australian Championships, Shinobu lost to Kara Black in the first round. Then at the tournament in Tokyo, she was able to beat the representative of the Top 10 Amanda Kötzer 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (5) and go to the quarterfinals. At the tournament in Oklahoma, she was able to get into the semifinals. At the French Open and Wimbledon tournament in the first round she got strong opponents: Justine Henin and Venus Williams . In both cases, Asagoe is inferior in two sets. At the US Open, she also drops out in the first round. In late September, she goes to the quarterfinals of the tournament in Bali .

In Australia, 2002, Asagoe was inferior in the first round alone, and in pairs she managed to reach the quarter finals, performing in a duet with Rika Fujiwara . At the Roland Garros in singles, she makes her way through qualification and in the first round defeats Anastasia Myskina 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, but in the second loses Emily Lua . In the doubles tournament, along with Trudy Musgrave was able to reach the quarterfinals. In June, in a duet with Els Cullens, Sinobu won the WTA Tour debut title at a tournament in Birmingham . In August at the US Open in the first round loses to Frenchwoman Emily Lua. In early October, the Japanese duo Shinobu Asago and Nana Smith won the tournament's doubles tournament in Tokyo . At the end of the season, Shinobu was able to reach the quarter finals of the tournament in Pattaya .

In January 2003, starting with the qualification, the Japanese tennis player was able to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament in Hobart , but she loses in the Australian championship in the first round. At the end of February, at the ground tournament in Acapulco, in the second round match, Asagoe replayed the first racket of the tournament to Elena Dementieva 5-7, 6-3, 6-3. After winning another match, she eventually goes to the semifinal stage. In the pair competition of the 1st category tournament in Miami in an alliance with Nana Smith, Sinobu managed to reach the finals, where her pair loses to Magdalene Maleeva and Liesel Huber . At the French Open, she loses in the first round. In June, at the grass tournament in Birmingham, Asagoë first managed to break into the finals of the WTA singles tournament. In the decisive match, she is inferior to Bulgarian Maleeva 1-6, 4-6. At the Wimbledon tournament, she also performed well for herself. In the match of the second round in a bitter struggle, the 9th racket of the world at that time, Daniela Gantuhova, was beaten. It is noteworthy that Shinobu lost the first set of that meeting in the dry, but in the end she managed to win a general victory with a score of 0-6, 6-4, 12-10. Stopped her advance to the title of the 5th racket of the world Lindsay Davenport at the stage of the fourth round. At the US Open in the first round, Asagoe won the 12th racket of the world Magdalena Maleeva 6-4, 6-3. In the third round, she loses to Marie Pierce 4-6, 1-6. At the end of the season, she entered the Top 50 of the world classification (45th place).

At the beginning of the 2004 season, at the Hobart tournament, Sinob manages to reach both title matches. In singles in the finals, she lost to Amy Frazier 3-6, 3-6. In the doubles with compatriot Seiko Okamoto, she manages to win the main prize. At the Australian Championship, she is eliminated at the start. At the French Open, Asagoe defeated three fairly strong tennis players: Daniele Gantuhova, Patti Schnyder and Hisela Dulko , thus ensuring herself the participation in the fourth round. In the fight for reaching the quarter finals, she is inferior to Serena Williams 3-6, 1-6. At Wimbledon 2004, she loses in the first round. In August, together with Ai Sugiyama, she was able to win the tournament in the 1st category in Montreal . At a tennis tournament at the Athens Summer Olympics, this Japanese duo stopped a step away from winning medals. In the semifinals, they lost to the Spaniards Konchite Martinez and Virginia Ruano Pasqual , and in the match for the bronze award to the Argentine duo Paola Suarez / Patricia Tarabini . In a single Olympic tournament, she is eliminated at the start, losing to Francesca Schiavone . Asagoe successfully performed at the US Open. She manages to beat four rivals ( Anna Smashnova , Jill Kreibas , Paola Suarez and Eleni Danilida ), three of whom were seeded. Thus, the Japanese first goes to the quarterfinals, where she could not beat Lindsay Davenport. In October, with Katarina Srebotnik, she won the doubles tournament title in Tokyo. Asagoe concludes the 2004 season at the 37th line of the singles rating.

At the beginning of the 2005 season, Asagoë reached the final at the tournament in Auckland , where Katarina Srebotnik lost 7-5, 5-7, 4-6. The single-finals rivals in the doubles rally performed in the alliance and managed to win the championship title of that tournament. At the Australian Open, Shinobu finishes in the second round. At the tournament in Tokyo in the quarter finals, she beat Elena Dementieva (7th racket of the world) 6-3 6-4, and in the semifinal she lost to the 4th racket of Maria Sharapova 4-6 6-7 (3). She, Asagoe, loses in the fourth round of the tournament in Miami, held in March. In April, at a ground tournament in Amelia Island, the Japanese beat Anastasia Myskina in the third round of No. 6 in the world, and lost to Nadezhda Petrova in the quarter finals. At the French Open, in a single draw he is eliminated in the second round, and in pairs, together with Srebotnik, he goes to the quarter-finals. At Wimbledon, she finished speaking already at the start of the tournament, and at the US Open she went into the third round. In September, at a tournament in Beijing, she passes to the quarterfinals, where she loses to the first racket of the world at that time, Maria Sharapova. In October, in an alliance with Hisela Dulka, he won the pair trophy of the tournament in Bangkok .

At the 2006 Australian Open, Asagoe loses in the second round of singles. In the doubles, playing with Katarina Srebotnik, she managed to reach the semifinals, the highest result for her in the Grand Slam of her career. In April, this Slovak-Japanese duo won a tournament in Amelia Island. On the courts, Roland Garros Sinobu loses in the first round, and at the Wibbledon tournament in the second. At the US Open, the last professional tournament of her career, she loses in the first round and in pairs in the third.

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