TENNIS PLAYER

Ichiya Kumagae

1890 - 1968

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Ichiya "Ichy" Kumagae (熊谷 一弥, Kumagai Ichiya, 10 September 1890 – 16 August 1968) was a Japanese tennis player and the first Japanese Olympic medalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ichiya Kumagae has received more than 25,169 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Ichiya Kumagae is the 269th most popular tennis player (down from 234th in 2019), the 1,381st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,292nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Ichiya Kumagae ranks 269 out of 1,569Before him are Frew McMillan, Dinara Safina, Karel Koželuh, Frank Parker, Lindsay Davenport, and Kei Nishikori. After him are Àlex Corretja, Herbert Baddeley, Yola Ramírez, Elisabeth Moore, Seiichiro Kashio, and Malcolm Whitman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Ichiya Kumagae ranks 203Before him are Edgar Kennedy, Verna Felton, Aimee Semple McPherson, Eino Kaila, Cecil Kellaway, and Jean Piot. After him are Stratis Myrivilis, Imre Zachár, Myra Hess, Georges Tainturier, Benno Moiseiwitsch, and Harry Babcock. Among people deceased in 1968, Ichiya Kumagae ranks 214Before him are Franco Riccardi, Herbert Copeland, Giuseppe Enrici, Pietro Pastore, Luis Brunetto, and Nikolai Stepulov. After him are Kay Francis, Armand Blanchonnet, Fedde Schurer, Diógenes Lara, Sándor Gombos, and Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichiya Kumagae ranks 1,381 out of 6,245Before him are Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Koichi Kudo (1909), Kei Nishikori (1989), Kazuo Imanishi (1941), Romi Park (1972), and Yuzuru Hanyu (1994). After him are Seiji Honda (1976), Nobuo Kishi (1959), Yoshinori Ishigami (1957), Ken Sugimori (1966), Daijiro Kato (1976), and Toshimitsu Motegi (1955).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Japan

Among tennis players born in Japan, Ichiya Kumagae ranks 4Before him are Naomi Osaka (1997), Jiro Sato (1908), and Kei Nishikori (1989). After him are Seiichiro Kashio (1892), Kimiko Date (1970), Ai Sugiyama (1975), Kazuko Sawamatsu (1951), Yoshihito Nishioka (1995), Shingo Kunieda (1984), Akiko Morigami (1980), and Nao Hibino (1994).