Kimiko Date
Outcome No Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1 Aug 1991 LA Women 's Tennis Championships , Manhattan Beach Hard Monica Seles 3-6 , 2-6
Winner 1 Apr 1992 Japan Open Tennis Championships , Tokyo Hard Sabine Appelmans 7-5 , 3-6 , 6-3
Runner-up 2 Feb 1993 Asian Open , Osaka Carpet ( i ) Jana Novotná 3-6 , 2-6
Winner 2 Apr 1993 Japan Open Tennis Championships , Tokyo Hard Stephanie Rottier 6-1 , 6-3
Runner-up 3 Sep 1993 Nichirei International Championships , Tokyo Hard Amanda Coetzer 3-6 , 2-6
Winner 3 Jan 1994 Medibank International Sydney , Australia Hard Mary Joe Fernández 6-4 , 6-2
Winner 4 Apr 1994 Japan Open Tennis Championships , Tokyo Hard Amy Frazier 7-5 , 6-0
Winner 5 Jan 1995 Toray Pan Pacific Open , Tokyo Carpet ( i ) Lindsay Davenport 6-1 , 6-2
Runner-up 4 Mar 1995 Miami Masters , Key Biscayne Hard Steffi Graf 1-6 , 4-6
Runner-up 5 Apr 1995 Japan Open Tennis Championships , Tokyo Hard Amy Frazier 6-7 , 5-7
Runner-up 6 May 1995 Internationaux de Strasbourg , France Clay Lindsay Davenport 6-3 , 1-6 , 2-6
Winner 6 Apr 1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships , Tokyo Hard Amy Frazier 6-4 , 7-5
Winner 7 Aug 1996 San Diego Open , United States Hard Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 3-6 , 6-3 , 6-0
Winner 8 Sep 2009 Hansol Korea Open , Seoul Hard Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3 , 6-3
Runner-up 7 Oct 2010 HP Open , Osaka , Japan Hard Tamarine Tanasugarn 5-7 , 7-6 , 1-6
WTA career finals -- Singles : 15 ( 8 titles , 7 runner-ups )
Winner – Legend Grand Slam tournaments ( 0–0 ) WTA Tour Championships ( 0–0 ) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 ( 1–1 ) Tier II / Premier ( 2–2 ) Tier III , IV & V / International ( 5–4 )
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.