Ayumi Morita

Ayumi Morita (森田 あゆみ, Morita Ayumi, born March 11, 1990) is a Japanese tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of 42nd in the world on June 6, 2011 and is currently the fifth highest ranked Japanese player in the world at world No. 153. At Junior level, she reached a career high ranking of No. 3.
Morita is known for strong and consistent two-handed groundstrokes which she hits very flat. She is also regarded as very tough mentally for a young player, often showing great resolve to win close matches despite a lackluster serve. Morita is a small and quick player with excellent footwork and movement around the court.
Morita is one of the most successful Fed Cup players of recent times with a 23–14 match win record for Japan.

The tennis career of Ayumi Morita

Morita at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships

On September 16, 2008, she beat world No. 19 Ágnes Szávay in three sets in the Toray Pan Pacific Open.

On January 5, 2009, Morita upset former Wimbledon quarterfinalist Michaëlla Krajicek in the final round of qualifying to reach the main draw of the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. She faced third set deficits in all three of her qualifying matches, including a 4–1 deficit in her first match against Katie O'Brien.

2011

Her first tournament of 2011 was the 2011 ASB Classic. She faced Romanian teenager Simona Halep and lost in straight sets despite recovering from being two breaks down in the second set. Her next tournament was the 2011 Moorilla Hobart International. She beat Akgul Amanmuradova. Her next opponent was Bethanie Mattek-Sands, to whom she lost in two sets. Ayumi played at the 2011 Australian Open – Women's Singles where she defeated 27 seed Alexandra Dulgheru in two sets. She defeated wildcard Caroline Garcia in the second round but lost to Peng Shuai in the third round.

At the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships, Morita qualified by defeating Sophie Lefèvre and Vesna Manasieva. In the first round of the main draw, she defeated No. 14 seed Petra Kvitová in two tiebreaks. Before the match, Kvitová had only lost once in 2011 and had already won two titles. Morita beat Indian wildcard Sania Mirza in the second round before losing to Caroline Wozniacki in the third round.

2013

Morita reached the third round of the Australian Open with straight-sets victories over Anna Tatishvili and Annika Beck, then lost to Serena Williams on Rod Laver Arena.

Doubles: 2 (0–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	October 7, 2007	Bangkok Open, Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Junri Namigata	Sun Tiantian Yan Zi	w/o
Runner-up	2.	September 29, 2008	Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Aiko Nakamura	Jill Craybas Marina Erakovic	6–4 5–7 [6–10]

Singles 16 (8–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	15 May 2005	Fukuoka, Japan	Carpet	Chan Yung-jan	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	14 May 2006	Fukuoka, Japan	Carpet	Chan Yung-jan	3–6, 6–4, 1–6
Winner	3.	6 August 2006	Tokachi, Japan	Carpet	Erika Takao	6–3, 4–6, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	4.	30 September 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Chan Yung-jan	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	6 May 2007	Gifu, Japan	Carpet	Chan Yung-jan	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	6.	9 June 2007	Surbiton, England	Grass	Brenda Schultz-McCarthy	6–4, 4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Winner	7.	22 July 2007	Kurume, Japan	Grass	Erika Takao	6–1, 3–1 ret.
Runner-up	8.	5 August 2007	Obihiro, Japan	Carpet	Sophie Ferguson	4–6, 3–6
Winner	9.	2 November 2008	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Jarmila Gajdošová	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
Winner	10.	22 November 2008	Kolkata, India	Hard	Elora Dabija	6–3, 6–1
Winner	11.	30 November 2008	Toyota, Japan	Carpet	Ksenia Lykina	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	12.	8 November 2009	Taipei, Chinese Taipei	Hard	Chan Yung-jan	4–6, 6–2, 2–6
Winner	13.	4 October 2010	Toyota, Japan	Hard	Jill Craybas	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	14.	7 November 2010	Taipei, Chinese Taipei	Hard	Peng Shuai	1–6, 4–6
Winner	15.	31 October 2011	Taipei, Chinese Taipei	Hard	Kimiko Date-Krumm	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	16.	3 November 2013	Nanjing, China	Hard	Zhang Shuai	4–6 ret.

Doubles 7 (3–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	23 July 2005	Kurume, Japan	Carpet	Erika Sema	Chan Chin-wei Hsieh Su-wei	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	17 February 2006	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Junri Namigata	Chan Chin-wei Chuang Chia-jung	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	3.	16 February 2007	Melbourne, Australia	Clay	Natsumi Hamamura	Hwang I-hsuan Lee Ye-ra	2–6, 1–6
Winner	4.	6 May 2007	Gifu, Japan	Carpet	Ai Sugiyama	Kumiko Iijima Seiko Okamoto	6–1, 3–6, 6–0
Winner	5.	13 May 2007	Fukuoka, Japan	Carpet	Akiko Yonemura	Rika Fujiwara Junri Namigata	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	5 August 2007	Obihiro, Japan	Carpet	Akiko Yonemura	Kumiko Iijima Junri Namigata	6–7(3–7), 0–6
Winner	7.	10 October 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Chan Yung-jan	Kimiko Date-Krumm Rika Fujiwara	6–2, 6–4