is a Japanese professional

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player. Uchida has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 155 achieved on 3 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 202 also achieved on 19 September 2022. Uchida has won 2 Challengers and reached 14 ITF Futures singles finals, where he won the title on 8 occasions. He won his first career

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Tour singles title in December 2021 in

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, Brazil where he defeated

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of Spain. Additionally, he has reached 3 Challenger doubles finals and 17 ITF Futures finals, and won the title 11 times.

Career

2022: ATP debut and first win

He made his ATP debut at the 2022 Los Cabos Open as a qualifier. Having received a wildcard, he recorded his first ATP win at the Korea Open defeating wildcard

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National Representation

Davis Cup

In March 2021, Uchida made his debut in the

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where he represented team

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on grass courts against team

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. He won the only match that he played, in singles, against

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in straight sets ''6–4, 7–6^(7–4)''. He was meant to play an additional singles match but it became a dead rubber as the match's result wouldn't have changed the outcome of the tie.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 16 (10–6)

Doubles: 21 (12–9)

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* * 1994 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Sportspeople from Osaka Prefecture People from Katano 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub