Kimiko Date
Outcome No Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1 6 April 1992 Japan Open Tennis Championships , Tokyo Hard Stephanie Rehe Amy Frazier Rika Hiraki 7-5 , 6-7 , 0-6
Winner 1 21 April 1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships , Tokyo Hard Ai Sugiyama Amy Frazier Kimberly Po 7-6 , 6-7 , 6-3
Runner-up 2 14 September 2009 Guangzhou International Women 's Open , China Hard Sun Tiantian Olga Govortsova Tatiana Poutchek 6-3 , 2-6 , [ 8-10 ]
Winner 2 16 October 2011 HP Open , Osaka , Japan Hard Zhang Shuai Vania King Yaroslava Shvedova 7-5 , 3-6 , [ 11-9 ]
Runner-up 3 26 February 2012 Monterrey Open , Mexico Hard Zhang Shuai Sara Errani Roberta Vinci 2-6 , 6-7
Winner 3 15 April 2012 E-Boks Open , Copenhagen Hard ( i ) Rika Fujiwara Sofia Arvidsson Kaia Kanepi 6-2 , 4-6 , [ 10-5 ]
Runner-up 4 14 October 2012 HP Open , Osaka Hard Heather Watson Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears 1-6 , 4-6
Winner 4 3 February 2013 PTT Pattaya Open , Thailand Hard Casey Dellacqua Akgul Amanmuradova Alexandra Panova 6-3 , 6-2
Winner 5 7 April 2013 Monterrey Open , Mexico Hard Tímea Babos Eva Birnerová Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-1 , 6-4
Winner 6 25 May 2013 Internationaux de Strasbourg , France Clay Chanelle Scheepers Cara Black Marina Erakovic 6-4 , 3-6 , [ 14-12 ]
WTA career finals -- Doubles : 10 ( 6 titles , 4 runner-ups )
Winner – Legend Grand Slam tournaments ( 0–0 ) WTA Tour Championships ( 0–0 ) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 ( 0–0 ) Tier II / Premier ( 0–0 ) Tier III , IV & V / International ( 6–4 )
She returned to tennis nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008. She has since won several ITF titles. She won her eighth WTA title at the 2009 Hansol Korea Open in Seoul, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open Era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour. In 2013, she won three WTA International events in doubles and reached the third round at two of the four Grand Slam singles tournaments. At the 2014 US Open, she reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam doubles tournament for the first time in her career. Date announced her final retirement in September 2017.