Jiro Sato
; January 5, 1908 – April 5, 1934}} was a Japanese tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in 1933, but committed suicide in the Strait of Malacca during his trip to the Davis Cup in 1934.He received worldwide fame in Wimbledon 1932, when he beat the defending champion Sidney Wood at the quarterfinal. In the semifinal, he lost to Bunny Austin. His peak came in 1933, when he beat Fred Perry in the French Open quarterfinal. He was ranked world No. 3 by A. Wallis Myers of ''The Daily Telegraph'', behind Jack Crawford and Fred Perry. However, it got more and more difficult for him to endure the enormous pressure from Japan. It is believed that pressure drove him to throw himself overboard into the Strait of Malacca on April 5, 1934, at 26 years of age. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Yukiko Usui, Ryo Kurokawa, Eriko Maeda, Harushi Mori, Shiori Amemiya, Jiro Sato, Kenji Ino, Rumiko Torigoe, Osamu Abe, Li ZengGet full text
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4by Tetsuya Ishimaru, Jun Fujishiro, MD, PhD, Masahiko Sugiyama, Mari Arai, Kaori Satoh, Chizue Uotani, Masataka Takahashi, Shohei Takami, Jiro Sato, Junko Takita, Tadashi IwanakaGet full text
Published 2017-06-01
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5by Ryosuke Tateishi, Shuichiro Shiina, Masaaki Akahane, Jiro Sato, Yuji Kondo, Ryota Masuzaki, Hayato Nakagawa, Yoshinari Asaoka, Tadashi Goto, Kuni Otomo, Masao Omata, Haruhiko Yoshida, Kazuhiko KoikeGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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6by Kazuhito Sato, Toshiaki Tanaka, Jiro Sato, Eisuke Shibata, Yuzo Nagai, Koji Murono, Koji Yasuda, Kensuke Otani, Takeshi Nishikawa, Junichiro Tanaka, Tomomichi Kiyomatsu, Keisuke Hata, Kazushige Kawai, Hiroaki Nozawa, Shinsuke Kazama, Hironori Yamaguchi, Soichiro Ishihara, Eiji Sunami, Joji Kitayama, Kuni Ohtomo, Toshiaki WatanabeGet full text
Published 2017-11-01
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