Ei Iida (born 9 September 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Japan.
Biography
Iida qualified for the singles main draw of two Grand Slam tournaments, the
1988 Australian Open
The 1988 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 76th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 11 through 24 January 1988 and was the first ...
and
1989 US Open. Her first-round opponent at the US Open was
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (, ; ; born October18, 1956) is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, singles for 332 weeks (List of WTA number ...
, who went on to make the final.
As a doubles player, she reached No. 44 in the world and won one
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ...
title, the
1993 Japan Open, partnering
Maya Kidowaki
is a retired Japanese tennis player.
Tennis career
Kidowaki represented Japan at the 1992 Summer Olympics in doubles with Kimiko Date and they lost to Jana Novotná and Andrea Strnadová in the third round, in two sets. She also competed ...
.
Early in her career, she played collegiate tennis for
Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University () is a private university, private Christianity, Christian research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ, with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pepperdine's main campus consists ...
in the United States.
WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 5 (3–2)
Doubles: 22 (14–8)
References
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Iida, Ei
1967 births
Living people
Japanese female tennis players
Pepperdine Waves women's tennis players
Expatriate tennis players in the United States
21st-century Japanese women
20th-century Japanese sportswomen