Aiko Nakamura

Country	Japan
Residence	Osaka, Japan
Date of birth	December 28, 1983 (1983-12-28) (age 25)
Place of birth	Osaka, Japan
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	123 lb (56 kg; 8.8 st)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	right-handed (two-handed both sides)
Career prize money	US$ 761,183
Singles
Career record	202–171
Career titles	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 47 (6 August 2007)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2006, 2007)
French Open	1R (2005 – 2008)
Wimbledon	2R (2005, 2007)
US Open	2R (2005, 2006)
Doubles
Career record	52–83
Career titles	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 64 (3 March 2008)
Last updated on: 6 October 2008.

Aiko Nakamura (中村藍子, Nakamura Aiko^?) (born 28 December 1983 in Osaka), is a female Japanese tennis player. She was once the second highest WTA-ranked Japanese singles tennis player, at 107 (21 July 2008), after Ai Sugiyama.

Like her role-model Monica Seles, she has a double-handed forehand and backhand, but serves right-handed. She has won two ITF singles and two ITF doubles titles. In 2006, she made it to the final at the Japan Open in Tokyo, where she lost to Marion Bartoli of France 2–6, 6–2, 6–2.

Nakamura plays for Japan's Fed Cup team.As of April 27, 2009 she is ranked World No. 200.

[edit] External links

• Aiko Nakamura profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Aiko Nakamura at the International Tennis Federation
• Aiko Nakamura at the Fed Cup

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