Ann Kiyomura

Playing career

Ann Kiyomura was born in San Mateo, California, on 22 August 1955, the youngest of four children in a third-generation Japanese American family. Her father Harry was a tennis instructor and her mother Hisayo, who taught piano, had played tennis in Japan before the war. She started at five, won a junior national title at ten and was the top-ranked junior in the United States by 1972.

In 1973 she won the Wimbledon junior singles, beating Martina Navratilova in the final, and turned professional that August instead of going to college. Two years later she and Kazuko Sawamatsu of Japan, both unseeded, won the Wimbledon doubles. She reached the 1976 US Open doubles semi-finals and the 1980 Australian Open doubles final, played in two winning Wightman Cup teams, in 1976 and 1979, and spent five seasons in World TeamTennis, winning the 1978 title with the Los Angeles Strings.

She married the dentist David Hayashi, who had proposed at the 1983 Wimbledon Ball, in 1984, and retired at the end of 1985. She has two children, John and Jane.

On grass

Every grass title: 2

Show every title, tournament by tournament

Wimbledon
1975	Women's doubles	with Kazuko Sawamatsu
Surrey Championships (Surbiton)
1981	Women's doubles†	with Sue Barker

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions

"In the United States, it started a tennis boom across the Asians."