Tsuyoshi Fukui

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Tsuyoshi Fukui
Country (sports) Japan
Born (1957-06-22) 22 June 1957 (age 66)
Moji, Fukuoka Prefecture
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$34,083
Singles
Career record13–33
Highest rankingNo. 177 (3 January 1983)
Doubles
Career record6–11
Highest rankingNo. 280 (4 January 1981)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open2R (1980)

Tsuyoshi Fukui (福井 烈, Fukui Tsuyoshi, born 22 June 1957) is a retired

Challenger tennis events
in singles and earned a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177, in January 1983.

Circuit career

Fukui won the

Hong Kong Grand Prix. The Japan No. 1 for much of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fukui only defeated a non-Japanese opponent four times (Haroon Ismail, Bruce Kleege, Kim Warwick, Mike Estep, Mark Wooldridge, and Jon Levine
) in compiling a career singles win-lose record of 10 wins, 26 losses for Grand Prix events.

Fukui lost to

1981 Tokyo Indoor 3–6, 2–6; Miloslav Mečíř Sr. at the 1987 Tokyo Outdoor 5–7, 1–6; and Stefan Edberg at the 1987 Tokyo Indoor 5–7, 2–6. His best win was the one over Kim Warwick, a top 50 player, at the 1982 Hong Kong Grand Prix
, 7–5, 1–6, 7–6.

In doubles, Fukui competed in one Grand Slam event main draw, the 1980 French Open. He and partner Peter Holl defeated Jean Luc Cotard and Thierry Tulasne in the first round but lost their next match to Heinz Günthardt and Pavel Složil. His best showing in the Grand Prix tourney was reaching the third round of the 1979 Tokyo Outdoor, partnering Davis Cup teammate Jun Kamiwazumi. He won no doubles titles on tour and earned a career-high ranking of World No. 355, in July 1985.

Domestically, Fukui was singles champion of the All Japan Tennis Championships a record 7 times (1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1988). He was runner-up in 1989, at age 32, and doubles champion once, in 1980 and partnering Kamiwazumi.

Fukui resided in Tokyo when on the pro tour.[citation needed]

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