Fumiteru
Nakano
Male
Japan
1916-01-13
Gifu, Japan
1990-01-20
, -
He was the Japanese master of clay court.
Nakano reached the fourth round of the men's singles at the 1938 French Championships, a feat that would not be achieved again by a Japanese man until 2013. In July he was eliminated in the semifinals of the Queen's Club Championships by eventual winner Don Budge. In the fourth round he lost in three straight sets to Frantisek Cejnar from Czechoslovakia. In September of the same year he also reached the fourth round of the U.S National Championships in which he was defeated in four sets by Bobby Riggs. Together with his countryman Jiro Yamagishi he reached the quarterfinal of the men's doubles at the 1937 Wimbledon Championships. The two won the Maidstone Club's invitational tournament later the same month. They also clinched the doubles title of the Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Championship at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. In August he reached the quarterfinal of the Newport Casino Invitational falling to Frank Parker. As a result, he became the third ranked player of Japan that year.
In 1947 and 1948 he won the singles title at the All Japan Championships and he was ranked the No.1 player in Japan in 1939, 1947 and 1948. In 1951 he was still active and reached the semifinals of the Calcutta international tournament and the quarterfinal of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships.
Between 1937 and 1952 he played in five ties for the Japanese Davis Cup team. The best team result during that period was reaching the final of the Americas Zone in 1938 against Australia. Nakano had a Davis Cup match record of three wins, 10 losses and one unfinished match against John Bromwich. He also represented Japan in the 1940 International Athletic Meet in Tokyo, which was a substitute for the 1940 Summer Olympics originally scheduled to take place in Japan.
1935 - 1952
3
66
38
1948 - Japan International Championships (Amateur)
1947 - Japan International Championships (Amateur)
1938 - Rotterdam Anglo Dutch (Amateur)
Semifinals
Tony Mottram 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-2
6-3
6-4
Semifinals
Sven Davidson 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-3
11-9
6-2
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Eduardo Buse
6-4
0-6
5-7
6-4
6-2
Round 3
Billy Talbert 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-2
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Earl J. Schulze
6-2
4-6
6-4
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Roger Cessna
6-0
6-2
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Harold Melville (Hal) Burrows jr
4-6
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Tony Trabert 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-4
6-0
6-1
Poule
Art Larsen 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-1
6-4
Final
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Goro Fujikura
6-4
8-6
6-3
Final
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Goro Fujikura
4-6
3-6
7-5
6-4
6-0
Poule
Felicisimo Ampon 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
8-6
6-4
Poule
Felicisimo Ampon 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-3
7-5
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Mr. Kusumoto
6-4
2-6
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Yasumine Kuramitsu
6-4
6-2
6-8
7-5
Semifinals
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Franjo Kukuljevic
6-2
1-6
6-2
6-4
Final
Franjo Puncec 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
4-6
6-2
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Gaston Medecin
6-1
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Gordon Gwyn Lennox Tuckett
6-2
6-4
12-10
Round 3
Franjo Kukuljevic 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-3
7-5
6-8
6-3
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
André Jacquemet
7-5
6-4
6-2
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Gene Mako
6-1
6-3
4-6
6-0
Round 4
Frantisek Cejnar 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-4
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Lewis (Lew) Wetherell
3-6
6-3
3-6
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Gilbert A. Hunt 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-8
1-6
6-3
6-3
6-3
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
S. Yasukawa
6-4
6-4
8-10
6-0
Quarterfinals
Kiyoshi Kimura 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
9-7
6-4
1-6
3-6
6-4
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Mahmoud Alam
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Rolf Göpfert (Goepfert) 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-0
6-2
6-2
Poule
Franjo Kukuljevic 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-4
6-2
6-?
Round 2
Round 3
Giovanni Palmieri 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
J.M. Cabot
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Jhr. mr. Robert (Bob) de Brauw
6-2
7-5
Semifinals
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Diederik (Didi) Teschmacher
6-3
6-1
Final
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Yasumine Kuramitsu
6-0
6-1
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Charles Harris
3-6,6-2,6-2,2-6,6-4
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Ferruccio Quintavalle
6-1,6-3,4-6,6-4
Round 3
Ronald Alfred Shayes 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-8,10-8,6-3,6-1
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Samuel Gilpin
7-5,6-2,6-1
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Barnard Welsh
6-1,4-6,6-1,6-4
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Charles E. Swanson
10-8,4-6,6-1,3-6,6-3
Round 4
Bobby Riggs 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
3-6,7-5,6-3,8-6
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Gregory S. Mangin
6-3
3-6
6-1
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Elwood Thomas Cooke
6-8
6-0
6-3
Round 4
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Owen Anderson
6-4
6-3
1-6
5-7
2-0
ret.
Quarterfinals
Frank Parker 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
3-6
6-2
6-3
8-6
Round 3
John Caldwell (Jack) Lynch 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
4-6
8-6
6-3
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Elwood Thomas Cooke
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Arthur Hendrix
6-2
6-4
Quarterfinals
Frank Shields 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-1
7-5
Round 2
Robert Harman 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
8-6
5-7
7-5
Round 2
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Larry Hall
4-6
6-3
8-6
Round 3
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
William W. (Bill) Robertson
6-4
6-4
Quarterfinals
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Bryan Grant
8-6
4-6
ret.
Semifinals
Don Budge 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Jess Millman
3
sets
Round 2
John Caldwell (Jack) Lynch 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
4-6
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Reizo Murakami 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
7-5
7-9
8-6
0-6
7-5
Round 1
Owen Anderson 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
6-8
6-2
8-6
Poule
Gottfried von Cramm 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
7-5
6-3
3-6
6-1
Poule
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Henner Henkel
0-6
2-6
6-3
7-5
6-3
Quarterfinals
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Katsumi Matsuoko
6-2
6-0
9-7
Semifinals
Jiro Yamagishi 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
Round 1
Fumiteru Nakano 1 *
Junzo Kinoshita
?
Round 3
Mazio Murakami 1 *
Fumiteru Nakano
1-6
8-6
2-6
6-1
6-4