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Maiko Inoue
Full name	Maiko Inoue Sato
Country (sports)	Japan
Born	5 February 1979 (age 45); Okinawa, Japan
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$73,982
Singles
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 299 (29 September 1997)
Doubles
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 139 (9 July 2001)

Maiko Inoue Sato (井上摩衣子, Inoue Maiko, born 5 February 1979) is a Japanese former tennis player. She is a younger sister of Haruka Inoue.^[1]

A right-handed player, Inoue began competing on the professional tour in the late 1990s. She left the tour in 2003, before returning in 2007 and featuring as a doubles specialist.

During her career she was most successful in doubles, with a best ranking of 139. She made several WTA Tour main-draw appearances in doubles and won nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. As a singles player, she was ranked as high as 299 in the world, winning two ITF titles.^[2]

Inoue, who retired in 2012, is married to former tennis player Bumpei Sato.

ITF finals

$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles (2–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	30 September 1996	Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Keiko Nagatomi	4–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	22 November 1998	Haibara, Japan	Clay	Keiko Ishida	6–4, 6–3
Winner	2.	29 November 1998	Nagasaki, Japan	Grass	Rika Fujiwara	6–1, 3–6, 7–6⁽³⁾
Runner-up	2.	18 September 2002	Kyoto, Japan	Hard (i)	Tomoko Yonemura	3–6, 3–6

Doubles (9–11)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	17 February 1997	Faro, Portugal	Hard	Riei Kawamata	Sylvie Sallaberry Aliénor Tricerri	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	16 November 1998	Haibara Japan	Clay	Yasuko Nishimata	Keiko Ishida Tomoko Ishida	7–5, 6–7⁽⁷⁾, 3–6
Winner	2.	30 August 1999	Kuroshio, Japan	Hard	Kerry-Anne Guse	Mareze Joubert Kate Warne Holland	6–4, 7–6⁽³⁾
Runner-up	2.	12 December 1999	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Haruka Inoue	Li Ting Li Na	3–6, 2–6
Winner	3.	10 January 2000	Boca Raton, United States	Hard	Li Ting	Olga Blahotová Gabriela Chmelinová	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	26 March 2000	Stone Mountain, United States	Hard	Haruka Inoue	Trudi Musgrave Bryanne Stewart	4–6, 6–2, 6–7
Runner-up	4.	14 October 2001	Saga, Japan	Grass	Shiho Hisamatsu	Rika Hiraki Nana Smith	0–6, 1–6
Runner-up	5.	8 September 2002	Kyoto, Japan	Hard (i)	Shiho Hisamatsu	Shizu Katsumi Akiko Kinebuchi	4–6, 6–2, 2–6
Runner-up	6.	15 September 2002	Hiroshima, Japan	Clay	Keiko Taguchi	Helena Ejeson Andrea Munch-Hermansen	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Winner	4.	22 September 2002	Kyoto, Japan	Hard (i)	Shiho Hisamatsu	Maki Arai Kaori Aoyama	7–5, 7–5
Runner-up	7.	20 October 2002	Haibara, Japan	Carpet	Haruka Inoue	Remi Tezuka Yuka Yoshida	0–6, 2–6
Winner	5.	27 October 2002	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Haruka Inoue	Keiko Taguchi Nami Urabe	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	19 August 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Mari Inoue	Zhao Yijing Song Shanshan	3–6, 1–6
Winner	6.	2 September 2007	Saitama, Japan	Hard	Mayumi Yamamoto	Tomoko Dokei Yukiko Yabe	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	9.	31 August 2008	Saitama, Japan	Hard	Airi Hagimoto	Hsu Wen-hsin Hwang I-hsuan	4–6, 3–6
Winner	7.	8 August 2009	Niigata, Japan	Carpet	Airi Hagimoto	Maki Arai Etsuko Kitazaki	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	10.	29 August 2009	Saitama, Japan	Hard	Airi Hagimoto	Maki Arai Mari Tanaka	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	11.	26 March 2010	Kofu, Japan	Hard	Shiho Hisamatsu	Maki Arai Seiko Okamoto	4–6, 4–6
Winner	8.	11 July 2010	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Maki Arai	Airi Hagimoto Kaori Onishi	6–2, 7–5
Winner	9.	17 June 2012	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Kaori Onishi	Akari Inoue Hiroko Kuwata	5–7, 7–5, [10–7]