SHIBAHARA Ena

Date of Birth: 12 Feb 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.73/5'8''

Place of birth: MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA

Birth Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Tennis	Women's Doubles JPN Aoyama / Shibahara	17
	Mixed Doubles JPN Shibahara / McLachlan	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
6th on Centre Court	Ariake Tennis Park Centre Court	Mixed Doubles First Round KAZ Shvedova / Golubev 3 6³ JPN Shibahara / McLachlan 6 7	Finished
2nd on Court 2	Ariake Tennis Park Court 2	Mixed Doubles Quarterfinal JPN Shibahara / McLachlan 5 7 [8] ROC Pavlyuchenkova / Rublev 7 6⁰ [10]	Finished
3rd on Court 5	Ariake Tennis Park Court 5	Women's Doubles First Round SUI Bencic / Golubic 6 6⁵ [10] JPN Aoyama / Shibahara 4 7 [5]	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Grand Slams

	Aus Open		Roland Garros		Wimbledon		US Open
Year	Singles	Doubles	Singles	Doubles	Singles	Doubles	Singles	Doubles
2021	-	QF	-	R32	-	SF	-	-
2020	-	R16	-	QF	-	-	-	R16
2019	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	R64
2016	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	R64

2021 Tournament Results - Doubles

Result
Winner	Abu Dhabi,Melbourne,Miami,Eastbourne
Runner-up	-
Semifinal	Wimbledon,Rome

Legend
WR - Winner, RU - Runner-up, F - Final, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, R16 - Round of 16, R32 - Round of 32, R64 - Round of 64, R128 - Round of 128

Shopping, hiking, listening to music. (enashibahara.com, 08 Apr 2021)

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Yoshi Shibahara [father]; Shuhei Shibahara [brother]

Right (wtatennis.com, 05 Apr 2021)

Turned professional in 2019

She took up the sport at age seven, and began competing at age eight. (enashibahara.com, 08 Apr 2021)

She was influenced by her father and two older brothers. "I was like, I'm going to be better than all of you guys one day. I decided that I wanted to play tennis for the rest of my life at an early age because my very first goal was to beat all my family members." (enashibahara.com, 08 Apr 2021; uclabruins.com, 2018; UCLA Bruin Blue Magazine, 2017 )

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 08 Apr 2021)

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, US tennis player Pete Sampras. (enashibahara.com, 08 Apr 2021; usopen.org, 07 Sep 2017; sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 18 Sep 2019)

Her father Yoshi and two older brothers Shuhei and Mizuki. (enashibahara.com, 08 Apr 2021; uclabruins.com, 2018)

In 2020 she received an Excellence Award from the Japan Tennis Association [JTA]. (tennisclassic.jp, 11 Dec 2020)

While at the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States of America, she was named Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year for both 2016/17 and 2017/18. In 2016/17 she also received the awards for Intercollegiate Tennis Association [ITA] National Rookie of the Year and Pac-12 Newcomer/Freshman of the Year. (uclabruins.com, 2018)

She was named Southern California High School Female Player of the Year in 2014 and 2015 in the United States of America. (uclabruins.com, 2018)

General Interest

General
REPRESENTING JAPAN
Born in Mountain View, CA, United States of America, to Japanese parents, she holds dual US and Japanese citizenship. She wanted to represent Japan at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as her grandparents reside in Tokyo. (sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 18 Sep 2019; usopen.org, 2020, 07 Sep 2017)

STUDIES
In 2016 she began studying at the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States of America on a tennis scholarship. In 2018 she took a leave of absence from the university to focus on her tennis career and turned professional in 2019. (California Tennis Life YouTube channel, 15 Jul 2019; jta-tennis.or.jp, 2019)

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EnaShibs
https://instagram.com/enashibs
https://twitter.com/enashibs
Athlete Website: https://enashibahara.com

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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