Biography.guide
Home › People › Tennis player › Tsuyoshi Fukui
Portrait of Tsuyoshi Fukui

Tsuyoshi Fukui

b. 1957

Japanese tennis player

Don't just read it — keep itBiographies to ownE-book · Audio · Video From $7 →

About Tsuyoshi Fukui

Born 1957. Tsuyoshi Fukui is a Japanese tennis player.

is a retired tour and Japan Davis Cup team tennis player. Fukui holds the record for the most singles win for the Japanese in Davis Cup, with 26. On tour, he won two Challenger tennis events in singles and earned a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177, in January 1983.

Circuit career Fukui won the 1983 Tokyo Challenger and 1985 Nagoya Challenger. His best results in a Grand Prix tennis event was reaching the third round of the 1980 Tokyo Outdoor (now the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships). The only Grand Prix events he ever played in the main draw of were the Tokyo Outdoor, Tokyo Indoor, and once in each the Taipei Grand Prix and Hong Kong Grand Prix. The Japan No. 1 for much of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fukui only defeated a non-Japanese opponent four times (Haroon Ismail, Bruce Kleege, Kim Warwick, Mike Estep, Mark Wooldridge, and Jon Levine) in compiling a career singles win-lose record of 10 wins, 26 losses for Grand Prix events.

Fukui lost to Tony Roche at the 1978 Tokyo Outdoor 7–5, 4–6, 1–6; Ilie Năstase at the 1978 Tokyo Indoor 1–6, 4–6; Yannick Noah at the 1979 Tokyo Indoor 2–6, 5–7; Björn Borg at the 1980 Tokyo Indoor 2–6, 2–6; Eliot Teltscher at the 1981 Tokyo Outdoor 1–6, 2–6; John McEnroe at the 1981 Tokyo Indoor 3–6, 2–6; Miloslav Mečíř at the 1987 Tokyo Outdoor 5–7, 1–6; and Stefan Edberg at the 1987 Tokyo Indoor 5–7, 2–6. His best win was the one over Kim Warwick, a top 50 player, at the 1982 Seiko Hong Kong Classic, 7–5, 1–6, 7–6.

In doubles, Fukui competed in one Grand Slam event main draw, the 1980 French Open. He and partner Peter Holl defeated Jean Luc Cotard and Thierry Tulasne in the first round but lost their next match to Heinz Günthardt and Pavel Složil. His best showing in the Grand Prix tourney was reaching the third round of the 1979 Tokyo Outdoor, partnering Davis Cup teammate Jun Kamiwazumi. He won no doubles titles on tour and earned a career-high ranking of World No. 355, in July 1985.

Domestically, Fukui was singles champion of the All Japan Tennis Championships a record seven times (1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1988). He was runner-up in 1989, at age 32, and doubles champion once, in 1980 and partnering Kamiwazumi.

Fukui resided in Tokyo when on the pro tour.

Biography shop

Don’t just read it —
keep it.

Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.

  • E-book
  • Audio
  • Video
Browse the shop — from $7

Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free

Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Nationality

People in Tsuyoshi Fukui's life

Named in this biography and alive at the same time

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Tsuyoshi Fukui's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Tsuyoshi Fukui?

Japanese tennis player

When was Tsuyoshi Fukui born?

Tsuyoshi Fukui was born on 22 June 1957 in Fukuoka.

What is Tsuyoshi Fukui's occupation?

Tsuyoshi Fukui is a tennis player.

What nationality is Tsuyoshi Fukui?

Tsuyoshi Fukui is Japanese.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Tsuyoshi Fukui

· Wikidata: Q7850370

· DBpedia: Tsuyoshi Fukui

Cite this page

APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Tsuyoshi Fukui. https://biography.guide/tsuyoshi-fukui/

MLA: "Tsuyoshi Fukui." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/tsuyoshi-fukui/.

Chicago: "Tsuyoshi Fukui." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/tsuyoshi-fukui/.

Data last updated: 2026-09-20 · Spot an error? Report a correction.

Page generated 2026-09-27 05:17 UTC