Rio Noguchi

Rio Noguchi
	Noguchi at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Japan
Born	28 December 1998; Fukuoka,Japan
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Hiroyuki Kojima
Prize money	US $ 367,703
Singles
Career record	1–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 201 (7 November 2022)
Current ranking	No. 221 (16 June 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2023)
French Open	Q1 (2023)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2023)
Doubles
Career record	0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 177 (5 May 2025)
Current ranking	No. 195 (16 June 2025)
	Last updated on: 16 June 2025.

Rio Noguchi (野口莉央, Noguchi Rio; born 28 December 1998) is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 201 achieved on 7 November 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 177 achieved on 5 May 2025.^[1]

Career

2022: ATP debut, first win and Top 250

Noguchi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships after qualifying for the singles main draw, defeating Tatsuma Ito and Yusuke Takahashi to qualify. He won his first ATP and ATP 500 level match defeating fellow qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan. As a result, he climbed 75 positions up the rankings into the top 250.

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2022	Playford, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Rinky Hijikata	1–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 2024	Jinan, China	Challenger	Hard	Wu Yibing	5–7, 3–6

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2022	Playford, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Yusuke Takahashi	Jeremy Beale Calum Puttergill	6–7^(2–7), 4–6
Loss	0–2	Nov 2022	Yokkaichi, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Masamichi Imamura	Yu Hsiou Hsu Yuta Shimizu	6–7^(2–7), 4–6
Loss	0–3	Aug 2024	Jinan, China	Challenger	Hard	Edward Winter	Yuta Shimizu Chung Yun-seong	3–6, 7–6^(7–5), [6–10]

ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 17 (8 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Legend
ITF Futures/WTT (8–9)

Finals by surface
Hard (7–6)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–2)
Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	May 2018	Vietnam F1, Thua Thien Hue	Futures	Hard	Nam Ji-sung	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Loss	1–1	Jun 2018	Japan F7, Karuizawa	Futures	Clay	Takashi Saito	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–1	Jun 2018	Japan F8, Akishima	Futures	Carpet (i)	Gengo Kikuchi	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–2	Dec 2018	Pakistan F1, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Cheong-Eui Kim	7–6^(7–3), 2–6, 1–6
Win	2–3	Dec 2018	Pakistan F3, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Kai Wehnelt	1–6, 5–7
Loss	2–4	Jun 2019	M25 Nonthaburi, Thailand	WTT	Hard	Sidharth Rawat	5–7, 0–6
Loss	2–5	Oct 2019	M25 Tay Ninh, Vietnam	WTT	Hard	Daniel Nguyen	4–6, 2–6
Loss	2–6	Mar 2020	M25 Mildura, Australia	WTT	Grass	Brydan Klein	5–7, 3–6
Win	3–6	Oct 2021	M25 Pretoria, South Africa	WTT	Hard	Filip Peliwo	6–3, 7–5
Loss	3–7	Jun 2022	M25 Harmon Air Force, Guam (USA)	WTT	Hard	Hong Seong-chan	3–6, 2–6
Win	4–7	Jul 2022	M25 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Ben Patael	6–2, 6–4
Win	5–7	Jul 2022	M25 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Ben Patael	6–2, 7–6^(7–5)
Win	6–7	Sep 2022	M25 Sapporo, Japan	WTT	Hard	Shuichi Sekiguchi	4–6, 7–5, 6–2
Win	7–7	Sep 2022	M25 Sapporo, Japan	WTT	Hard	Tatsuma Ito	6–1, 4–0 ret.
Loss	7–8	Oct 2022	M25 Kashiwa, Japan	WTT	Hard	Rimpei Kawakami	0–0 def.
Loss	7–9	Mar 2024	M25 Swan Hill, Australia	WTT	Grass	Alex Bolt	1–6, 2–6
Win	8–9	Oct 2024	M25 Cairns, Australia	WTT	Hard	Blake Ellis	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 7–6^(7–4)

Doubles: 15 (7 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Legend
ITF Futures/WTT (7–8)

Finals by surface
Hard (4–5)
Clay (3–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2017	Japan F8, Akishima	Futures	Carpet (i)	Yuta Shimizu	Yuto Sakai Yunosuke Tanaka	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Feb 2018	Spain F3, Paguera	Futures	Clay	Chung Yun-seong	Bruno Santanna David Vega Hernández	2–6, 7–6^(8–6), [10–8]
Loss	1–2	Jun 2018	Japan F8, Karuizawa	Futures	Clay	Yuichiro Inui	Sora Fukuda Hiromasa Oku	5–7, 4–6
Win	2–2	Dec 2018	Pakistan F1, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Cheong-Eui Kim	Darko Jandrić Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev	6–2, 6–4
Loss	2–3	Dec 2018	Pakistan F2, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Sora Fukuda	Darko Jandrić Cheong-Eui Kim	3–6, 4–6
Loss	2–4	Dec 2018	Pakistan F3, Islamabad	Futures	Hard	Ken Onishi	Anton Chekhov Kai Wehnelt	3–6, 5–7
Loss	2–5	Jun 2019	M15 Akishima, Japan	WTT	Carpet (i)	Yunosuke Tanaka	Hiroyasu Ehara Sho Katayama	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–5	Oct 2019	M25 Tay Ninh, Vietnam	WTT	Hard	Alexey Zakharov	Samuel Beren Billy Harris	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, [10–4]
Loss	3–6	Dec 2019	M15 Doha, Qatar	WTT	Hard	Adam Moundir	Danylo Kalenichenko Ivan Liutarevich	3–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	4–6	Oct 2020	M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	WTT	Hard	Shintaro Mochizuki	Ryan Nijboer Gijs Brouwer	6–2, 7–5
Win	5–6	Apr 2021	M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Shintaro Mochizuki	Constantin Schmitz Benjamin Hassan	7–6^(7–2), 6–2
Loss	5–7	Aug 2021	M25 Champaign, USA	WTT	Hard	Chung Yun-seong	Ben Shelton Eliot Spizzirri	4–6, 0–6
Loss	5–8	Nov 2021	M25 Meitar, Israel	WTT	Hard	Naoki Nakagawa	Iiro Vasa Eero Vasa	1–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	6–8	Jul 2022	M25 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Alexandros Skorilas	Ray Ho Kelsey Stevenson	6–7^(4–7), 6–3, [10–3]
Win	7–8	May 2024	M25 Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina	WTT	Clay	Koki Matsuda	Matěj Vocel Jakub Paul	2–6, 7–6^(7–5), [11–9]

References

^ "Rio Noguchi | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.

External links

Rio Noguchi at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Rio Noguchi at the International Tennis Federation

[1] "Rio Noguchi | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.

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