Ryosuke
Nunoi
Male
Japan
1909-01-18
Kobe, Japan
1945-07-21
Burma, Burma
Nunoi was the youngest member of the Japanese squad that toured Australia in 1932 and played in a series of "Test matches" against the home side. In one of these matches he came close to upsetting Harry Hopman, but failed to convert set points in each of the two sets. He did however have a win over Jack Crawford in Perth. At the 1932 Australian Championships, Nunoi was a quarter-finalist in the singles, along with teammate Jiro Sato. Nunoi and Sato remained the only Japanese players to reach the quarter-finals at the Championships (later Australian Open) until they were joined by Kei Nishikori in 2012.
In 1933, he spent a lot of time in Europe, where he played in four Davis Cup ties, against Hungary, Ireland, Germany and Australia. He won singles matches over Emil Gábori, Béla von Kehrling, George Lyttleton-Rogers, Edward McGuire, Gustav Jaenecke and Vivian McGrath. His two singles losses were both in five sets, to Jack Crawford and Gottfried Von Cramm. Nunoi partnered Sato in all four doubles rubbers and they were beaten only once, by the Australian pairing of Jack Crawford and Adrian Quist, in another five set match.
While in Europe he appeared at both the 1933 French Championships and 1933 Wimbledon Championships.[5] At the French Championships he was the 12th seed and came from two sets down to defeat Adrian Quist in the second round. He was then eliminated from the tournament by Marcel Bernard. In Wimbledon he lost in the second round to Lester Stoefen but made history with Jiro Sato in the doubles, with the pair becoming the first Japanese players to make a Wimbledon final. They lost in the tournament decider to Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon.
In August 1933, he partnered with compatriot Jiro Sato to win the doubles title at the German Championships in Hamburg.
He also competed in the 1933 U.S. National Championships, as the 10th seed.En route to the fourth round, where he was beaten by Frank Shields, Nunoi had wins over Americans Edward Jacobs, Samuel Gilpin and George Lott. To defeat Lott, Nunoi once again had to come from two sets down.
1929 - 1933
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1933 - Frinton-on-Sea (Amateur)
1932 - Japan International Championships (Amateur)
Round 1
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Dr James Edmett Giesen
6-2
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Lester Stoefen 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
9-7
2-6
9-7
1-6
6-2
Round 1
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
René de Buzelet
4-6
6-3
6-3
6-2
Round 2
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Adrian Quist
2-6
2-6
6-1
6-1
6-4
Round 3
Marcel Bernard 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
6-2
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Edward (Eddie) Jacobs
6-3
9-7
6-2
Round 2
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Samuel Gilpin
6-2
6-0
6-1
Round 3
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
George Lott
5-7
1-6
6-1
6-1
6-2
Round 4
Frank Shields 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
7-5
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Jess Millman
7-5
7-5
Round 3
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Don Budge
6-0
6-2
Quarterfinals
Lester Stoefen 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Erwin Keller
6-1
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Ghica Poulieff
2-6
6-1
6-2
6-0
Round 3
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Josef Siba
2-6
6-4
2-6
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
S. Fe D' Ostiani
6-0
6-1
5-7
6-2
Semifinals
Gottfried von Cramm 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
6-3
6-3
9-7
Round 3
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Yoshio Miyaki
6-4
2-6
7-5
6-4
Quarterfinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Hyotare Satoh
6-4
5-7
6-3
6-4
Semifinals
Hideo Nishimura 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
6-8
7-9
7-5
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Gaby Mercier-Odier
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Charles Aeschlimann
6-2
7-5
Final
Jiro Satoh 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
7-5
4-6
6-3
9-7
Quarterfinals
D.N. Jones 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
7-9
8-6
ret.
Final
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Tatsuyoshi (Ryuki) Miki
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Gaston Medecin
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Robert Émile Léon Bouy
6-3
6-2
Final
Jiro Satoh 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
0-6
6-4
4-6
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
David (Dave) Thompson
6-1
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Ernest Rowe
6-2
6-0
6-2
Quarterfinals
Jack Crawford 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
3-6
7-5
6-4
6-1
Final
Hyotare Satoh 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
6-4
6-1
2-6
6-3
Final
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Jiro Satoh
5-7
6-2
2-6
6-4
6-1
Poule
Harry Hopman 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
8-6
6-4
Poule
Charles Raymond (Ray) Dunlop 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
6-4
7-5
Poule
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Jack Crawford
6-2
2-6
6-2
Semifinals
Takeo Kuwabara 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
2-6
6-4
2-6
6-1
6-2
Round 3
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Keigo Yamada
6-4
6-2
6-4
Quarterfinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Mr. Kawaji
6-1
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Jiro Satoh 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
Poule
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Stanley Gordon (Pao Hua) Lum
6-3
6-4
6-4
Poule
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Kho Sin-Khie
10-8
6-3
1-0
ret.
Round 1
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Charles Akana
6-3
5-7
6-3
Quarterfinals
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Ralph McElvenny
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Dr Cranston William Holman 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
8-6
0-6
6-2
6-2
Poule
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Francisco Aragon
6-1
6-1
6-2
Semifinals
Takeichi Harada 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
7-5
7-5
3-6
6-3
Round 1
Ryosuke Nunoi 1 *
Jiro Satoh
3-6
6-4
8-6
Quarterfinals
Henri Cochet 1 *
Ryosuke Nunoi
6-4
6-4