World No. 1) Marcelo Ríos in 2000; Mario Ančić twice in 2001; Yen-Hsun Lu four times, in 2001, twice in 2003, and in 2007; World No. 40 Jarkko Nieminen in 2002; World No. 44 Karol Beck in 2003; and Dudi Sela in 2005. His career tour win-lose record against top-100 players was 6 and 24. The highest ranked opponent he faced was World No. 3 Lleyton Hewitt, at the 2004 Japan Open, and Motomura managed to take the second set in a 0–6, 6–3, 1–6 loss. In terms of head-to-head results, in all ITF, ATP, and Davis Cup matches (qualifying and main draw1), he went 3 and 4 lifetime against Srichaphan; 2–9 versus Hyung-Taik Lee; 4–2 versus Lu; 4–2 versus Ti Chen; 3–3 versus Yong-Il Yoon; 1–3 versus Ogorodov; 7–7 versus Davis Cup teammate Iwabuchi; and 1–3 versus Takao Suzuki. 1With the exception of qualifying matches for Futures events. All-Japan Championships Motomura won four out of five All-Japan singles championships between 1999 and 2003 (1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003). He was also runner-up in 1996. He won the doubles title three times; in 1993 and 1995 partnering Tetsuya Sato; and in 1996 with Thomas Shimada. External links 1973 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture Asian Games medalists in tennis Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games