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Tetsuya Sato (born 26 March 1969) is a Japanese former professional
tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.


Early life and career

Born in
Kanagawa is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...
, Sato played on the professional tour in the 1990s and represented Japan in a total of three
Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ...
ties during his career. At home, he was a five-time national champion as a doubles player, winning his first All Japan Tennis Championships title in mixed doubles in 1990. From 1991 to 1995, he featured in five successive men's doubles finals, winning four. Sato studied at
Nihon University , abbreviated as , is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889. The university's name is derived from the Ja ...
and won a silver medal for Japan at the
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in Sheffield.


See also

* List of Japan Davis Cup team representatives


References


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sato, Tetsuya 1969 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Summer World University Games medalists in tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade Tennis people from Kanagawa Prefecture 20th-century Japanese sportsmen