Week 33 ATP pick
Right-handed, currently No. 165 in the ATP singles rankings, career-high No. 148.
Career-High Rank
No. 148
SINGLES
Current Rank
No. 165
ATP SINGLES
Age
20
B. 24 JUN 2006
RTT Pick
Wk 33
RISING STAR
Country
🇯🇵 Japan
Tour
ATP singles
Plays
Right-handed
Age
20
Born
24 June 2006
Current Rank
No. 165
Career High
No. 148
Career W–L
93–77
2026 W–L
27–18
The 6'4" right-hander from Nagoya is the 2024 Australian Open boys' champion — only the second Japanese boys' junior major winner after fellow RTT alumnus Shintaro Mochizuki — and a former junior world No. 1. Based at IMG Academy in Florida since age 15 and coached by Federico Ricci, he has made a habit of celebrating wins by unsheathing an imaginary samurai sword. The climb has been steep: outside the top 800 in mid-2024, he collected Challenger titles in Yokkaichi, Cary and Yokohama on the way to a career-high No. 148 in June 2026.
"When I'm going on the court, I'm ready to win the battle" — on the samurai mindset; atptour.com, 17 July 2025
2026 brought the milestones. In January he qualified for his first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian Open, routing Dan Evans 6–1, 6–2 along the way, and pushed Rafael Jódar to five sets in the first round. In March came his first ATP Tour — and Masters 1000 — match win, over No. 92 Aleksandar Kovacevic at the Miami Open, before he took the first set off world No. 10 Daniil Medvedev. Fresh off a quarterfinal at the Lexington Challenger, where he beat former top-100 Michael Mmoh, the 20-year-old — who runs a YouTube channel called REIVOLUTION — sits at No. 165 and is knocking on the top-150 door again.
"How professional I am overall. Mental stability and physicality."
ON WHAT HAS IMPROVED MOST · NEXTGENATPFINALS.COM, JAN 2026"I felt like I was so talented in tennis."
ON CHOOSING TENNIS OVER BASEBALL · ATPTOUR.COM, JUL 2025"I like cooking, but I hate doing the dishes."
LIFE OFF COURT · NEXTGENATPFINALS.COM, JAN 2026