Mai Hontama

Mai Hontama (本玉真唯) (born 30 August 1999) is a Japanese tennis player. Hontama has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 105 by the WTA, achieved on 5 August 2024, and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 109, set on 6 November 2023.

Career 2021: WTA Tour & 1000 debut, first quarterfinal Hontama made her WTA Tour debut at the WTA 500 2021 Chicago Fall Tennis Classic, after qualifying for the main draw. She reached the quarterfinals, defeating former world No. 4, Caroline Garcia in the first round, her first top 100 win, 11th seed Anett Kontaveit by walkover and Shelby Rogers, before falling to eventual champion Garbiñe Muguruza.

2022-23: Wimbledon debut and first win She made her Grand Slam debut at the Wimbledon Championships after qualifying, where she recorded the first major win in her career, over Clara Tauson.

At her home tournament, the WTA 500 Pan Pacific Open, she reached the second round in 2023, after qualifying and defeating compatriot Nao Hibino before she lost to the top seed Iga Świątek.

2024: Australian Open debut She received a wildcard for the 2024 Australian Open making her main-draw debut at this major but lost to ninth seed Barbora Krejčíková.

She qualified for the main draw at Indian Wells and recorded her first win at this level defeating Zhang Shuai, but lost to 31st seed Marta Kostyuk, in the second round.

Ranked No. 116, she also made her debut at the China Open, as a lucky loser, after the late withdrawal of Amanda Anisimova, losing in the first round to Wang Xinyu.

Sponsorship Hontama wears Lacoste clothing, and uses Tecnifibre racquets.

Performance timeline

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles Current through the 2026 Athens Open.

Doubles Current through the 2023 WTA Tour season.

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) LegendWTA 250 (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Jasmin Open, Tunisia WTA 250 Hard Natalija Stevanović Sara Errani Jasmine Paolini 6–2, 6–7(4–7), [6–10]

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups) Legend$60/75 tournaments (1–1)$40,000 tournaments (1–1) $25,000 tournaments (2–2)$15,000 tournaments (0–2)Finals by surfaceHard (4–2)Clay (0–3)Carpet (0–1)

Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (1–1)$60,000 tournaments (3–1)$25,000 tournaments (1–1)$10,000 tournaments (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (2–0)

Head-to-head records Record against top 10 players She has a 0–2 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.