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Players

Sugiyama, Ai (JPN)

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Data  
Date of Birth: July 05th, 1975
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Lives in: Kanagawa, Japan
Height: 1,63 m
Weight: 55 kg
Pro since: 1992
Plays: Right-handed
Career  
WTA single Titles: 6
WTA double Titles: 37
Present Ranking: 33
Career Prize Money: 7,827,894 US-Dollar

Private Insights

Alongside tennis, Ai loves, above all, to play golf, sometimes also during tournaments. She is coached by her mother Fusako. Off court, Ai is the co-owner of a company called Belly Button with whom she, amongst other things, founded a tennis academy and opened cafe in Chigasaki, Japan in 1998.