79 Facts About Kimiko Date-Krumm

Kimiko Date-Krumm reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times.

Kimiko Date-Krumm reached a career-high ranking of world No 4 in 1995, and retired from professional tennis in November 1996.

Kimiko Date-Krumm returned to tennis nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then won her eighth WTA title at the 2009 Korea Open, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open Era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour.

Kimiko Date-Krumm won the Japan Open, reached the semifinals in the Mizuno World Ladies Open and reached the fourth round at Roland Garros.

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Kimiko Date-Krumm was runner-up in the Asia Women's Open and the Nichiray Ladies Cup.

Kimiko Date-Krumm reached the semifinals in the Lipton Championships defeating Mary Joe Fernandez.

Kimiko Date-Krumm beat Martinez again the following week at the Australian Open on the way to her first Grand Slam semifinal.

Kimiko Date-Krumm was runner-up in the tier one Miami Open, defeating Sabatini before losing to Graf in straight sets.

Kimiko Date-Krumm won the doubles title at that tournament with teenage and fellow Japanese partner Kurumi Nara, defeating Melanie South and Nicole Thyssen in a match tie-breaker.

Kimiko Date-Krumm defeated both Nicole Kriz and Rika Fujiwara to reach the quarterfinals where she lost to Aiko Nakamura in straight sets.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then defeated Shiho Hisamatsu and Zhou Yimiao to reach the quarterfinals where she lost to Tomoko Yonemura in straight sets, in another tournament in Japan, a 50k event in Kurume.

Kimiko Date-Krumm won through to the final round of qualifying after defeating Mari Tanaka of Japan and Australian Casey Dellacqua.

Kimiko Date-Krumm lost in the final round to Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada in straight sets.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then reached the quarterfinals of an ITF event in Clearwater, Florida, beating Lauren Embree of the US and fellow Japanese player Aiko Nakamura before losing to third-seeded Slovak Jarmila Groth in three sets.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then played at a $25k event in Hammond, Louisiana where she breezed past qualifier Heidi El Tabakh.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then beat American Lauren Albanese in the round of 16 for a place in the quarterfinals where she lost to qualifier Lindsay Lee-Waters in three sets.

Kimiko Date-Krumm followed that win by beating Arantxa Parra Santonja to reach the final, and she earned a two-set-victory over Romanian qualifier Alexandra Dulgheru to claim the biggest title of her comeback that far.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then received a wildcard to play at the inaugural Tournament of Champions, the year-end championship, held in Bali, Indonesia.

Kimiko Date-Krumm started 2010 with participation at the ASB Classic in Auckland where she received a wildcard to enter the maindraw.

Kimiko Date-Krumm easily beat former world No 5, Anna Chakvetadze, in the first round, and then recovered from a set down to beat fifth seed Virginie Razzano for her first win over a top-20 player after her comeback.

Kimiko Date-Krumm competed at the Australian Open in Melbourne, the first time since her comeback that she has had direct acceptance into a Grand Slam main draw.

In February, Kimiko Date-Krumm played for Japan's Fed Cup team for the first time since 1996.

At the PTT Pattaya Open in Thailand, Kimiko Date-Krumm was seeded seventh but fell to Anastasia Rodionova in the first round.

Kimiko Date-Krumm defeated Melinda Czink in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells before falling to No 15 seed Francesca Schiavone in the second.

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Kimiko Date-Krumm made it to the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami by defeating former top-10 player Anna Chakvetadze.

Kimiko Date-Krumm began her clay-court season at the Estoril Open in Portugal.

Kimiko Date-Krumm played Anastasija Sevastova in the second round, but retired due to a recurring calf injury.

Kimiko Date-Krumm was defeated by wildcard Jarmila Groth in the second round.

At the US Open, Kimiko Date-Krumm received direct entry into the main draw but lost to two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then traveled to Seoul to defend her title at the Korea Open but lost in the quarterfinals to Agnes Szavay.

Kimiko Date-Krumm beat Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round, but lost to Elena Dementieva in the second round, in three sets.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then returned home to compete at the HP Open in Osaka, Japan.

Kimiko Date-Krumm beat her but lost the final match to unseeded Tanasugarn.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then received a wildcard to enter the Tournament of Champions in Bali, Indonesia for the second time in a row.

Kimiko Date-Krumm would go on to lose in both first rounds to Kateryna Bondarenko, then Angelique Kerber the following week.

Kimiko Date-Krumm earned her first victory of the 2011 season at the Pattaya Open, defeating Renata Voracova.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then reached the second round of Sony Ericsson Open but again lost to Ivanovic in straight sets.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then suffered four consecutive losses in her clay-court campaign, in Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, and Strasbourg.

Kimiko Date-Krumm started out the grass-court season with a surprise doubles championship with Zhang Shuai in the Nottingham ITF tournament.

At the HP Open, Kimiko Date-Krumm again teamed with Zhang Shuai and defeated Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova in the doubles final to win her first WTA level doubles title since 1996.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then flew to Europe to participate at the BGL Luxembourg Open but lost in the first round.

Post to that loss, Kimiko Date-Krumm had good runs participating at three higher-tier tournaments in the ITF Circuit.

Kimiko Date-Krumm came in victorious in Poitiers and placed runner-up in both Taipei and Toyota.

Kimiko Date-Krumm started her year participating at a 50k+H event in Quanzhou, China as the first seed in both singles and doubles.

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Kimiko Date-Krumm came in victorious in singles, winning the title by beating Timea Babos in the final; and finished as the runner up in doubles, partnering with Zhang Shuai, to Chan Hao-ching and Rika Fujiwara.

At the Australian Open Kimiko Date-Krumm lost in the first round to Eleni Daniilidou in singles, and with Zhang Shuai, lost in the first round in doubles to 14th seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Galina Voskoboeva.

Kimiko Date-Krumm lost in the first round of Monterrey and reached the second round of Indian Wells where she lost to Vera Zvonareva.

Kimiko Date-Krumm eventually won the title after defeating Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in the final.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then lost first round at ITF Cagnes-sur-Mer when she had to retire against Anastasiya Yakimova.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then lost in the first found of ten consecutive tournaments all of which were WTA or Grand Slam events except for ITF Nottingham.

Kimiko Date-Krumm made the quarterfinals of ITF Limoges losing to Stefanie Vogele.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then lost narrowly in the first round of ITF Poitiers to Elena Vesnina.

From here, Kimiko Date-Krumm made the finals of each of her next three tournaments.

Kimiko Date-Krumm lost to Elina Svitolina at the WTA Pune final, and to Stefanie Vogele at the ITF Toyota final.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then beat Yulia Putintseva to win ITF Al Habtoor, her last tournament of the year.

Kimiko Date-Krumm ended the calendar year ranked 99 on 31 December 2012, securing a berth in the upcoming 2013 Australian Open, and finishing in the top 100 for a fourth consecutive calendar year.

At the Australian Open, Kimiko Date-Krumm won a singles match in this tournament for the first time since 1996, defeating No 12 seed Nadia Petrova in straight sets, and becoming the oldest woman to ever win a main draw singles match in the Australian Open.

Kimiko Date-Krumm beat Shahar Pe'er in the second round, but then lost to Serbian Bojana Jovanovski.

Kimiko Date-Krumm went on to lose in the second round of Pattaya City to Ayumi Morita.

Kimiko Date-Krumm made the second round of Miami losing to Venus Williams.

Kimiko Date-Krumm retired in her first- and second-round matches at Monterrey and ITF Gifu.

Kimiko Date-Krumm skipped most of the clay-court season choosing only to participate in one warm-up tournament prior to the French Open.

Kimiko Date-Krumm began the grass-court season in Birmingham losing first round to Alla Kudryavtseva.

Kimiko Date-Krumm lost in the quarterfinals of ITF Vancouver and in qualifying at Cincinnati.

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Kimiko Date-Krumm lost in the first round of the US Open to Paula Ormaechea.

Kimiko Date-Krumm lost in qualifying and early rounds of Acapulco, Indian Wells, and Miami.

Kimiko Date-Krumm made the semifinals of Monterrey losing to Jovana Jaksic in a close three-setter.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then lost in the first round of the French Open to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Kimiko Date-Krumm lost first round of Wimbledon to eventual quarterfinalist Ekaterina Makarova.

Kimiko Date-Krumm lost in the first round of the US Open to Venus Williams, but made the semifinals of doubles with Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova.

Kimiko Date-Krumm retired from her second-round match in Hong Kong losing to Francesca Schiavone.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then lost first round in Tokyo to Victoria Azarenka.

Kimiko Date-Krumm would go on to reach a new career high of 28 in doubles early the following year.

Kimiko Date-Krumm then won three qualifying matches for a tournament in Changwon, but lost in the first round to Park So-hyun.

Kimiko Date-Krumm is considered to possess the most notable "pancake" forehand in the women's game, with one of the lowest average spin RPM ever.

Kimiko Date-Krumm relies on her opponent's power to hit sharp angles and catch her opponents off-guard.

Kimiko Date-Krumm is left-handed, but was trained to play right-handed to follow Japanese custom.

Kimiko Date-Krumm currently owns and runs a German bakery in Tokyo named Frau Krumm.