Erika Sema

Erika Sema (瀬間 詠里花, Sema Erika, born 24 November 1988)[1] is a Japanese professional tennis player.

Erika Sema
瀬間 詠里花
Country (sports) Japan
ResidenceTokyo, Japan
Born (1988-11-24) November 24, 1988
Tokyo
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Prize money$400,112
Singles
Career record397–359 (52.5%)
Career titles10 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 114 (10 October 2011)
Current rankingNo. 495 (23 November 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian OpenQ2 (2011, 2013)
French OpenQ2 (2012)
WimbledonQ2 (2011, 2012, 2013)
US OpenQ2 (2013)
Doubles
Career record329–246 (57.2%)
Career titles23 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 120 (28 October 2013)
Current rankingNo. 198 (23 November 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
WimbledonQ1 (2012)
Last updated on: 28 November 2020.

Her coach is Shunsuke Ogata. She is the younger sister of Yurika Sema who retired from professional tennis in November 2015. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French.

Sema, who is playing on the WTA Tour but mostly on the ITF Circuit, has tried for 16 times to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, without success.

ITF finals

Singles 16 (10 titles, 6 runner-ups)

$100,000 tournaments (0–1)
$75,000 tournaments (0–0)
$50,000 tournaments (0–0)
$25,000 tournaments (7–4)
$10,000 tournaments (3–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. Mar 2007 ITF Hamilton, New Zealand Hard Anna Smith 6–3, 7–5
Winner 2. Jun 2007 ITF Tokyo, Japan Hard Chiaki Okadaue 6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Runner-up 3. Mar 2009 ITF Kofu, Japan Hard Misaki Doi 5–7, 2–6
Runner-up 4. May 2009 ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia Hard, Ayu-Fani Damayanti 5–7, 3–6
Winner 5. Jun 2009 ITF Tokyo, Japan Hard Erika Takao 6–4, 6–0
Runner-up 6. Sep 2010 ITF Hamanako, Japan Hard Kumiko Iijima 7–6, 2–6, 4–6
Winner 7. Oct 2010 ITF Port Pirie, Australia Hard Victoria Larrière 6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Winner 8. Oct 2010 ITF Mount Gambier, Australia Hard Ana Clara Duarte 6–2, 6–3
Winner 9. Nov 2010 ITF Wellington, New Zealand Hard Elitsa Kostova 6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Winner 10. May 2011 ITF Niigata, Japan Hard Sachie Ishizu 7–6, 6–4
Runner-up 11. Sep 2011 ITF Ningbo, China Hard Anastasiya Yakimova 6–7, 3–6
Runner-up 12. Oct 2011 ITF Makinohara, Japan Carpet Karolína Plíšková 7–6, 2–6, 0–6
Winner 13. Oct 2012 ITF Seoul, Korea Hard Mai Minokoshi 6–1, 7–5
Runner-up 14. Sep 2013 ITF Tsukuba, Japan Hard Nao Hibino 4–6, 6–7
Winner 15. Sep 2013 ITF Incheon, Korea Hard Yurika Sema 6–3, 6–4
Winner 16. Jun 2015 ITF Kashiwa, Japan Hard Riko Sawayanagi 6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 46 (23 titles, 23 runner-ups)

$100,000 tournaments (0–1)
$80,000 tournaments (0–0)
$50,000 tournaments (5–4) /
$60,000 tournaments (0–3)
$25,000 tournaments (18–13)
$15,000 tournaments (0–1)
$10,000 tournaments (0–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. Jul 2005 ITF Kurume, Japan Carpet Ayumi Morita Chan Chin-wei
Hsieh Su-wei
4–6, 3–6
Winner 2. Oct 2007 ITF Traralgon, Australia Hard Yurika Sema Courtney Nagle
Robin Stephenson
6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 3. May 2008 ITF Kurume, Japan Carpet Yurika Sema Chang Kai-chen
Hwang I-hsuan
3–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Winner 4. May 2008 ITF Nagano, Japan Carpet Yurika Sema Ayaka Maekawa
Hwang I-hsuan
6–3, 2–6, [10–7]
Winner 5. May 2008 ITF Gunma, Japan Carpet Yurika Sema Chang Kai-chen
Hwang I-hsuan
6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
Runner-up 6. May 2009 ITF Tarakan, Indonesia Hard Yrina Koshino Beatrice Gumulya
Jessy Rompies
6–7(5), 7–6(4), [7–10]
Runner-up 7. May 2009 ITF Gunma, Japan Carpet Yurika Sema Hsu Wen-hsin
Mari Tanaka
3–6, 6–1, [7–10]
Winner 8. Sep 2009 ITF Makinohara, Japan Carpet Kurumi Nara Mari Tanaka
Tomoko Yonemura
6–0, 6–0
Runner-up 9. Oct 2009 ITF Mount Gambier, Australia Hard Yurika Sema Olivia Rogowska
Emily Webley-Smith
1–6, 7–5, [7–10]
Winner 10. Oct 2009 ITF Port Pirie, Australia Hard Yurika Sema Alenka Hubacek
Bojana Bobusic
6–1, 7–5, [10–6]
Winner 11. Apr 2010 ITF Incheon, South Korea Hard Irina-Camelia Begu Misaki Doi
Junri Namigata
6–0, 7–6(8)
Winner 12. May 2010 ITF Gifu, Japan Hard Tomoko Yonemura Ksenia Lykina
Melanie South
6–3, 2–6, [10–7]
Runner-up 13. Jul 2010 ITF Vaihingen, Germany Clay Magdalena Kiszczyńska Mandy Minella
Irena Pavlovic
3–6, 4–6
Winner 14. Jul 2010 ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany Clay Teodora Mirčić Elena Bogdan
Andrea Koch Benvenuto
7–6(4), 2–6, [10–8]
Runner-up 15. Jul 2010 ITF Darmstadt, Germany Clay Irina-Camelia Begu Vitalia Diatchenko
Laura Siegemund
6–4, 1–6, [4–10]
Runner-up 16. Aug 2010 ITF Hechingen, Germany Clay Julia Schruff Irina-Camelia Begu
Anaïs Laurendon
2–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Winner 17. Aug 2010 ITF Versmold, Germany Clay Hana Birnerová Aminat Kushkhova
Olga Panova
6–3, 6–3
Winner 18. Sep 2010 ITF Alison Springs, Australia Hard Yurika Sema Alison Bai
Emelyn Starr
7–5, 6–1
Winner 19. Sep 2010 ITF Hamanako, Japan Clay Kumiko Iijima Kao Shao-yuan
Ayaka Maekawa
6–2, 6–1
Runner-up 20. Apr 2011 ITF Osprey, United States Clay María Irigoyen Stéphanie Foretz Gacon
Alexa Glatch
6–4, 5–7, [7–10]
Runner-up 21. Apr 2011 ITF Gifu, Japan Hard Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Chan Yung-jan
Chan Hao-ching
2–6, 3–6
Winner 22. May 2011 ITF Niigata, Japan Hard Natsumi Hamamura Akari Inoue
Ayumi Oka
6–1, 6–2
Winner 23. Jun 2011 ITF Périgueux, France Clay Florencia Molinero Leticia Costas-Moreira
Inès Ferrer Suárez
6–2, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up 24. Jul 2011 ITF Biarritz, France Clay Roxane Vaisemberg Alexandra Panova
Urszula Radwańska
2–6, 1–6
Runner-up 25. Jul 2011 ITF Contrexéville, France Clay Roxane Vaisemberg Valentyna Ivakhnenko
Kateryna Kozlova
6–2, 5–7, [10–12]
Winner 26. Mar 2012 ITF Sanya, China Hard Zheng Saisai Liang Chen
Zhou Yimiao
6–2, 6–2
Winner 27. Aug 2012 ITF Bronx, United States Hard Shuko Aoyama Eri Hozumi
Miki Miyamura
6–4, 7–6(4)
Winner 28. Jan 2013 ITF Burnie, Australia Hard Shuko Aoyama Bojana Bobusic
Jessica Moore
w/o
Winner 29. Apr 2013 ITF Gifu, Japan Hard Luksika Kumkhum Nao Hibino
Riko Sawayanagi
6–4, 6–3
Winner 30. May 2013 ITF Fukuoka, Japan Grass Junri Namigata Rika Fujiwara
Akiko Omae
7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up 31. Jun 2013 ITF Nottingham, Great Britain Grass Julia Glushko Julie Coin
Stéphanie Foretz Gacon
2–6, 4–6
Winner 32. Oct 2013 ITF Perth, Australia Hard Yurika Sema Monique Adamczak
Tammi Patterson
7–5, 6–1
Winner 33. Oct 2013 ITF Bendigo, Australia Hard Yurika Sema Monique Adamczak
Olivia Rogowska
3–6, 6–2, [11–9]
Runner-up 34. Feb 2014 ITF New Delhi, India Hard Yurika Sema Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
Peangtarn Plipuech
6–7, 3–6
Runner-up 35. Mar 2014 ITF Jackson, United States Clay Yurika Sema Chanel Simmonds
Maša Zec Peškirič
7–6, 3–6, [5–10]
Runner-up 36. Oct 2016 ITF Makinohara, Japan Carpet Rika Fujiwara Ksenia Lykina
Riko Sawayanagi
4–6, 1–6
Runner-up 37. Feb 2017 ITF Clare, Australia Hard Alison Bai Beatriz Haddad Maia
Genevieve Lorbergs
4–6, 3–6
Winner 38. Mar 2017 ITF Yokohama, Japan Hard Ayaka Okuno Kanako Morisaki
Minori Yonehara
6–4, 6–4
Runner-up 39. Mar 2017 ITF Nishitama, Japan Hard Shiho Akita Momoko Kobori
Kotomi Takahata
1–6, 2–6
Runner-up 40. May 2017 Jin'an Open, China Hard Mana Ayukawa Jiang Xinyu
Tang Qianhui
5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 41. Sep 2017 ITF Brisbane, Australia Hard Jennifer Elie Naiktha Bains
Abigail Tere-Apisah
4–6, 1–6
Runner-up 42. Jan 2018 Playford International, Australia Hard Junri Namigata Dalila Jakupović
Irina Khromacheva
6–2, 5–7, [5–10]
Runner-up 43. May 2019 Jin'an Open, China Hard Mai Minokoshi Beatrice Gumulya
You Xiaodi
1–6, 5–7
Runner-up 44. Sep 2019 ITF Changsha, China Clay Rutuja Bhosale Jiang Xinyu
Tang Qianhui
3–6, 6–3, [9–11]
Winner 45. Feb 2020 ITF Perth, Australia Hard Kanako Morisaki Jaimee Fourlis
Erin Routliffe
7–5, 6–4
Winner 46. Feb 2020 ITF Perth, Australia Hard Kanako Morisaki Paige Hourigan
Abigail Tere-Apisah
6–1, 4–6, [10–7]

References

  1. Japan Tennis Association profile Archived 2010-02-06 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 3 July 2010. (in Japanese)
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