is a Japanese
tennis
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player.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 330 by the
WTA, achieved on 9 September 2024. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 317, set on 26 February 2024.
Career
Saigo made her
WTA Tour
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debut after making it through qualifying at the
2022 Pan Pacific Open, but lost in the main-draw first round to
Petra Martić
Petra Martić (; born 19 January 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings, singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and o ...
.
She also qualified for the
2023 Pan Pacific Open, again losing in the first round, this time to
Cristina Bucșa
Cristina Bucsa Bucsa (; born 1 January 1998) is a Moldovan-born Spanish professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings, rankings of world No. 56 in singles, achieved on 15 January 2024, and No. 19 in doubles, achieved on 10 June ...
.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner–ups)
Doubles: 17 (6 titles, 11 runner–ups)
References
External links
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Rina Saigo Official Blog(in Japanese)
2000 births
Living people
Tennis players from Chiba Prefecture
Japanese female tennis players
21st-century Japanese sportswomen
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