Shuko Aoyama

is a Japanese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 on 28 February 2022. Her best doubles results at the majors are the final at the 2023 Australian Open, the semifinals at 2013, 2021 and 2026 Wimbledon Championships and at the 2026 French Open. She also reached the semifinals of the 2021 WTA Finals. She has won 21 titles on the WTA Tour.

Aoyama has also won four singles and 30 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her career-high singles ranking is No. 182, achieved on 9 February 2015. This was her first significant major result. In the semifinal match, they lost to Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai. In September, she won the Washington Open for the second year in a row. At the end of the year, she reached semifinals of the Korea Open and won the Toyota World Challenge.

During the next three seasons she did not have as good performances as in the 2013 season. In 2014, in singles, her only significant result came at the end of the year, when she reached the final of the Toyota World Challenge but lost to An-Sophie Mestach. In doubles, she won the Washington Open for the third year in a row. Later in October, she won the Japan Women's Open. During the year, she also had success on the ITF Women's Circuit. In May, she won the $50k Fukuoka International with Eri Hozumi, and later finished as runner-up at both the $50k Lexington Challenger and the $75k Toyota World Challenge. In the first week of the 2015 season, she reached the final at the Auckland Open with Renata Voráčová, they lost to Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci. A month later, she reached the final of the Thailand Open with Tamarine Tanasugarn. She then did not have significant results until September, before she reached semifinals at the Korea Open, and later winning two $100k events, in Nanjing and Tokyo. During 2016, she won one WTA Tour doubles title at the Japan Women's Open, and finished runner-up at the Nuremberg Cup, Washington Open and Jiangxi International Open. She also won three $50k events, in Quanzhou, Shenzhen and Wuhan.

2019: New partnership with Shibahara Shuko Aoyama played her first tournament with compatriot Ena Shibahara in August at the Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, where they reached the final. Shibahara said, "Our chemistry was spot on from the beginning, where I would set her up from the baseline and she just moves all over the net".

Shibahara and Aoyama played five more tournaments together in 2019, winning their first two titles at the Tianjin Open and Kremlin Cup in Moscow.

2020–21: Major & WTA Finals semifinals, Olympics & top 5 debuts Aoyama reached the 2020 French Open quarterfinals, partnering Shibahara. She won her maiden WTA 1000 title at the 2021 Miami Open. The Japanese pair represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where they lost in the first round to eventual silver medalists Belinda Bencic and Viktorija Golubic. Aoyama also reached the semifinals at Wimbledon and of the WTA Finals, seeded No. 2. She won four more titles, three being at the WTA 500 level, during 2021 with Shibahara.

2022: World No. 4, Australian Open semifinal Aoyama continued the partnership with Shibihara for the tournaments at the beginning of the year in Australia. At the Australian Open, they improved on their quarterfinal result the previous year by reaching the semifinal. Following this result, Aoyama reached her highest doubles ranking of world No. 4, on 28 February 2022. However, they were defeated in straight sets by defending champions Krejčíková and Siniaková.

She won her 18th title at the Rosmalen Open and the WTA 1000 title at the Canadian Open, partnering Shibahara.

Aoyama returned to the top 10 on 23 October 2023. The pair qualified for the 2023 WTA Finals for the second time with a seeding of No. 3, but lost in the round robin stage.

2024–26: Major semifinals and WTA 250 title, back to top 25

Partnering with Eri Hozumi, Aoyama won the doubles title at the 2024 Pan Pacific Open, defeating Ena Shibahara and Laura Siegemund in the final. The pair were runners-up at the Hong Kong Open, losing to Ulrikke Eikeri and Makoto Ninomiya in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.

At the 2026 French Open, partnering Liang En-shuo, she reached the semifinals for the first time, defeating Guo Hanyu and Kristina Mladenovic. Aoyama and Liang then entered the Rosmalen Open, which they went on to win. As a result, she returned the top 30 in the doubles rankings on 15 June 2026.

Performance timelines

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

Doubles Current through the 2026 Wimbledon Championships.

Grand Slam tournament finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 2023Australian Open Hard Ena Shibahara Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková 4–6, 3–6

Other significant finals WTA Elite Trophy Doubles: 1 (runner–up) ResultYearLocationSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 2018Zhuhai, China Hard (i) Lidziya Marozava Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok 4–6, 6–3, [7–10]

WTA 1000 tournaments Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 38 (21 titles, 17 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam (0–1)Elite Trophy (0–1)WTA 1000 (2–1)WTA 500 (6–4)WTA 250 (13–10)Finals by surfaceHard (17–15)Grass (4–1)Clay (0–1)

WTA 125 finals Doubles: 1 (title)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend$75,000 tournaments (0–1)$50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments (3–4)$10,000 tournaments (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–2)Clay (0–1)Grass (2–1)Carpet (1–1)

Doubles: 39 (30 titles, 9 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (5–1)$75,000 tournaments (2–1)$50,000 tournaments (8–3)$25,000 tournaments (12–4)$10,000 tournaments (3–0)Finals by surfaceHard (20–5)Clay (2–2)Grass (3–0)Carpet (5–2)