birth_place currentsinglesranking singlesrecord singlestitles plays highestdoublesranking currentdoublesranking birth_date doublesrecord residence doublestitles article_title name turnedpro highestsinglesranking
hamamatsu , japan no. 616 -lrb- 19 january 2015 -rrb- 78 -- 64 1 itf left handed -lrb- two-handed backhand -rrb- no. 301 -lrb- 10 november 2014 -rrb- no. 303 -lrb- 19 january 2015 -rrb- 17 november 1989 97 -- 39 kawanishi , hyōgo , japan 16 itf kotomi takahata
 kotomi takahata 高畑 琴美 2009 no. 562 -lrb- 25 october 2010 -rrb-
kotomi takahata

takahata was born in hamamatsu , and made her wta main draw debut at the 2011 hp open , where she received a wildcard into the doubles event with shuko aoyama .
aoyama and takahata put up a good fight but lost to the fourth seeds kimiko date-krumm and zhang shuai , 4 -- 6 , 7 -- 6 -lrb- 7 -- 2 -rrb- , -lsb- 8 -- 10 -rsb- .
at the 2014 japan women 's open , where she received a wildcard into the doubles main draw with kyōka okamura .
they defeated misaki doi and elina svitolina in the first round , 6 -- 3 , 3 -- 6 , -lsb- 10 -- 8 -rsb- .
they lost to darija jurak and megan moulton-levy in the quarterfinals .
