Aoi Itō (Japanese: 伊藤 あおい, Hepburn: Itō Aoi; born 21 May 2004) is a Japanese tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as No. 82 in singles, set on 18 August 2025, and No. 180 in doubles, achieved on 16 September 2024. Ito has won one WTA 125 singles title.
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Career
2024: WTA debut and semifinal
In September 2024, Ito won her third singles and eighth doubles titles on the ITF Circuit at the W50 event in Nanao, Japan.
On her WTA Tour debut at the Japan Women's Open, where she qualified for the main draw, Ito reached the semifinals defeating Sofia Kenin and eighth seed Elisabetta Cocciaretto, for her first top 50 career win, and lucky loser Eva Lys, before losing in the last four to Kimberly Birrell.
2025: Major & WTA 1000 debuts, first top 10 win & WTA 125 title
Ito won her first WTA 125 title at the Canberra Tennis International, defeating defending champion and top seed Nuria Párrizas Díaz in the semifinals and Wei Sijia in the final. As a result, she reached a new career-high ranking of 109, on 6 January 2025.
She qualified for her first WTA 1000 tournament at the Qatar Ladies Open losing to Jeļena Ostapenko in the first round. The following week, Ito qualified for the Dubai Open, but again fell in the first round, this time to Belinda Bencic.
In March 2025, she qualified for the Miami Open, but lost in the first round to Lauren Davis in three sets. She made her major debut at Wimbledon, losing to Kamilla Rakhimova in the first round.
Ito qualified for the Canadian Open and got her first WTA 1000 win by defeating Katie Volynets. She followed this up by fighting back from a set and a break of serve down against seventh seed Jasmine Paolini in the second round to register her maiden win against a top-10 ranked opponent. Ito lost in the third round to Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro in three sets.
Ranked at a new career-high of world No. 94, she qualified for the Cincinnati Open and defeated Elena-Gabriela Ruse and 27th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach the third round, at which point her run was ended by sixth seed Madison Keys. Despite her loss, Ito moved a further 12 places up the rankings to world No. 82 on 18 August 2025.
WTA 125 finals
ITF Circuit finals
Wins over top 10 players
Ito's match record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.