Kimiko Date-Krumm is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has won more than 200 tournament matches and won the Japan Open four times. In 1994, she was ranked in the top-ten women players in the world, and reached a career-high World No. 4. In 1992, the WTA awarded her the "Most Improved Player of the Year". After playing in her second Olympic Games, she announced her retirement on 24 September 1996. She returned to tennis nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008. She has since won several ITF titles. She won her eighth WTA Tour title at the 2009 Hansol Korea Open in Seoul, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour. In 2013 she won three WTA International events and reached third round at two of the four Grand Slam tournaments. At 43 years old, she is the oldest player in the top 100, and almost 10 years older than the next-oldest top-100 player, Venus Williams. At the 2014 US Open, she reached the semi-finals of a Grand Slam doubles tournament for the first time in her career. 

September 28th, 1970 in Kyoto (Age 54) as 伊達公子