Moyuka Uchijima
内島 萌夏

Uchijima at the2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Japan
Born	(2001-08-11)11 August 2001 (age 24) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 2,060,506
Singles
Career record	250–175
Career titles	13 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 47 (5 May 2025)
Current ranking	No. 81 (13 October 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2025)
French Open	2R (2024)
Wimbledon	1R (2024,2025)
US Open	2R (2024,2025)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2024)
Doubles
Career record	118–92
Career titles	1 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 86 (21 July 2025)
Current ranking	No. 102 (25 August 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2023)
French Open	2R (2025)
Wimbledon	1R (2024,2025)
US Open	1R (2024)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	6–3
Last updated on: 13 October 2025.

Moyuka Uchijima (内島 萌夏,Uchijima Moyuka; born 11 August 2001) is a Japanese professionaltennis player.She has a career-highWTA singles ranking of world No. 47, achieved on 5 May 2025, and a doubles No. 86, reached on 21 July 2025. She has won 13 titles in singles and 11 in doubles on theITF Circuit. She is the current Japanese No. 2 player.

For her Grand Slam debut, Uchijima received a wildcard from the2023 Australian Open, but lost in the first round toBernarda Pera.^[2]

she won three consecutive titles on the ITF Circuit in May 2024, reaching a career-high of world No. 80 in the singles rankings on 20 May 2024 and making her the Japanese No. 1 female singles player for the first time.^[2][3]

Uchijima qualified for the2024 French Open, making her debut at this major^[2][4] and defeated fellow qualifierIrene Burillo Escorihuela in the first round.^[5] She lost in the second round to the second seed,Aryna Sabalenka, in straight sets, ending a run of 19 consecutive professional match wins for Uchijima.^[6]

She qualified for the2024 Canadian Open and recorded her first WTA 1000 win, overViktoriya Tomova,^[7] before losing to sixth seedLiudmila Samsonova.^[8] As a result, she reached a new career-high ranking of No. 59 on 12 August 2024.^[9]

Making her debut at the2024 US Open, Uchijima defeatedTamara Korpatsch^[10][11] in the first round, before losing her next match toJule Niemeier.^[12]

In September 2024 at the WTA 250Thailand Open 2, Uchijima reached her first WTA Tour doubles final partnering withEudice Chong, but lost to top seedsAnna Danilina andIrina Khromacheva in the championship match.^[13]

PartneringGuo Hanyu, she won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title at the2024 Jiangxi Open, defeatingKatarzyna Piter andFanny Stollár in the final.^[14]

Ranked world No. 63, Uchijima defeatedMagda Linette to reach the second round at theAustralian Open,^[15] where she lost to 14th seedMirra Andreeva in a match which went to a deciding set tiebreak.^[16]

In February, at theDubai Tennis Championships, Uchijima qualified for the main draw and recorded her first win against a top-30 ranked opponent by defeating world No. 26Jeļena Ostapenko,^[17] before losing in the second round to sixth seedElena Rybakina.^[18]

At theMadrid Open in April, Uchijima reached her firstWTA 1000 quarterfinal with wins over wildcard entrantRobin Montgomery^[19] and 26th seedOns Jabeur,^[20] then defeating world No. 3Jessica Pegula for her first victory over a top-25 ranked player,^[21] before overcoming 21st seedEkaterina Alexandrova in the fourth round.^[22][23] She lost in the last eight to 17th seedElina Svitolina.^[24]

Uchijima then went almost four months without registering a WTA Tour level singles win until finally ending her slump by defeatingOlga Danilović at theUS Open,^[25] before losing toBarbora Krejčíková in the second round.^[26]

Only main-draw results inWTA Tour,Grand Slam tournaments,Billie Jean King Cup,United Cup,Hopman Cup andOlympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Current through the2025 US Open.

Current through the end of the 2024 season.

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2022	Concord Open, United States	Hard	Peangtarn Plipuech	Varvara Flink CoCo Vandeweghe	3–6, 6–7(3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2024	Hua Hin Championships, Thailand	WTA 250	Hard	Eudice Chong	Anna Danilina Irina Khromacheva	6–4, 7–5
Win	1–1	Nov 2024	Jiangxi Open, China	WTA 250	Hard	Guo Hanyu	Katarzyna Piter Fanny Stollár	7–6(7–5), 7–5

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2018	Kangaroo Cup Gifu, Japan	W80	Hard	Kurumi Nara	2–6, 6–7(4)
Win	1–1	Oct 2019	ITF Hua Hin, Thailand	W15	Hard	Mananchaya Sawangkaew	6–2, 6–4
Win	2–1	Aug 2021	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Jenna DeFalco	7–5, 6–2
Win	3–1	Sep 2021	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Ingrid Martins	6–1, 6–4
Win	4–1	Dec 2021	Pune Tennis Championships, India	W25	Hard	Diāna Marcinkēviča	6–2, 7-5
Win	5–1	Feb 2022	Porto Indoor, Portugal	W25	Hard (i)	Léolia Jeanjean	6–3, 6–1
Win	6–1	Mar 2022	Clay Court International, Australia	W60	Clay	Olivia Gadecki	6–2, 6–2
Loss	6–2	Jul 2022	ITF Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	W25	Hard	Mariia Tkacheva	6–7(2), 2–6
Win	7–2	Jul 2022	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	W60	Hard	Natalija Stevanović	6–3, 7–6(2)
Loss	7–3	Nov 2022	Tokyo Open, Japan	W60	Hard (i)	Wang Xinyu	6–1, 4–6, 6–3
Loss	7–4	Mar 2023	Nur-Sultan Challenger, Kazakhstan	W60	Hard (i)	Jang Su-jeong	1–6, 4–6
Win	8–4	Dec 2023	ITF Navi Mumbai, India	W40	Hard	Ekaterina Makarova	6–4, 6–1
Win	9–4	Jan 2024	Pune Tennis Championships, India	W50	Hard	Tina Nadine Smith	6–4, 6–0
Win	10–4	Apr 2024	Zaragoza Open, Spain	W100	Clay	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	6–1, 6–2
Win	11–4	Apr 2024	Kangaroo Cup, Japan	W100	Hard	Arina Rodionova	6–3, 6–3
Win	12–4	May 2024	Empire Slovak Open, Slovakia	W75	Clay	Mona Barthel	7–6(3), 6–3
Win	13–4	May 2024	Open Villa de Madrid, Spain	W100	Clay	Leyre Romero Gormaz	5–7, 6–4, 7–5

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2019	All Japan Indoor Championships	W60	Hard (i)	Eri Hozumi	Chen Pei-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien	6–4, 6–3
Loss	1–1	May 2019	Kurume Cup, Japan	W60	Carpet	Erina Hayashi	Hiroko Kuwata Ena Shibahara	6–0, 4–6, [5–10]
Win	2–1	Jun 2019	Internacional de Barcelona, Spain	W60	Clay	Kyoka Okamura	Marina Bassols Ribera Yvonne Cavallé Reimers	7–6(7), 6–4
Loss	2–2	Jun 2019	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	W25	Hard	Laura Pigossi	Francisca Jorge Olga Parres Azcoitia	4–6, 6–4, [9–11]
Loss	2–3	Jan 2020	ITF Hong Kong, China SAR	W25	Hard	Zhang Ying	Eudice Chong Wu Fang-hsien	6–7(2), 1–6
Win	3–3	Feb 2020	All Japan Indoor Championships(2)	W60	Hard (i)	Erina Hayashi	Hsieh Yu-chieh Minori Yonehara	7–5, 5–7, [10–6]
Win	4–3	Sep 2021	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Ma Yexin	Ingrid Martins Jazmín Ortenzi	6–2, 2–6, [10–6]
Win	5–3	Nov 2021	ITF Ortisei, Italy	W25	Hard (i)	Eudice Chong	Susan Bandecchi Ylena In-Albon	6–2, 1–6, [10–5]
Win	6–3	Dec 2021	ITF Selva Gardena, Italy	W25	Hard (i)	Eudice Chong	Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls	6–2, 6-1
Loss	6–4	Mar 2022	Clay Court International, Australia	W60	Clay	Yuki Naito	Han Na-lae Jang Su-jeong	6–3, 2–6, [5–10]
Loss	6–5	Jul 2022	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	W60	Hard	Momoko Kobori	Mariia Tkacheva Anastasia Zolotareva	6–4, 1–6, [4–10]
Win	7–5	Mar 2023	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	W60	Hard	Ma Yexin	Luksika Kumkhum Peangtarn Plipuech	6–0, 6–2
Win	8–5	Jun 2023	Internazionali di Brescia, Italy	W60	Clay	Mai Hontama	Alena Fomina-Klotz Olivia Tjandramulia	6–1, 6–0
Win	9–5	Jun 2023	Internazionali di Caserta, Italy	W60	Clay	Anastasia Tikhonova	Despina Papamichail Camilla Rosatello	6–4, 6–2
Win	10–5	Oct 2023	Shenzhen Longhua Open, China	W100	Hard	Kristina Mladenovic	Tímea Babos Kateryna Volodko	6–2, 7–5
Win	11–5	Mar 2024	Trnava Indoor, Slovakia	W50	Hard (i)	Lulu Sun	Weronika Falkowska Fanny Stollár	6–4, 7–6(3)

She has a 1–6 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10

#	Opponent	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score	MUR
2025
1.	Jessica Pegula	3	Madrid Open, Spain	Clay	3R	6–3, 6–2	56

She has a Malaysian mother and a Japanese father.^[28]

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