is a retired tour and Japan Davis Cup team

Japan Davis Cup team

The Japan Davis Cup team represents Japan in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Japan Tennis Association.Japan finished as runners-up in 1921, their first year of competition. They currently compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group I...

 tennis player. Fukui holds the record for the most singles win for the Japanese in Davis Cup

Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...

, with 26. On tour, he won two Challenger tennis events in singles and earned a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177, in January 1983.

Circuit career

Fukui won the 1983 Tokyo Challenger and 1985 Nagoya Challenger. His best results in a Grand Prix tennis event was reaching the third round of the 1980 Tokyo Outdoor (now the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships). The only Grand Prix events he ever played in the main draw of were the Tokyo Outdoor, Tokyo Indoor, and once in each the Taipei Grand Prix and Hong Kong Grand Prix. The Japan No. 1 for much of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fukui only defeated a non-Japanese opponent four times (Haroon Ismail

Haroon Ismail

Haroon Ismail is a former tennis professional from Rhodesia and Zimbabwe.Ismail reached his highest ATP singles ranking on February 22, 1982, when he became World Number 95...

, Bruce Kleege, Kim Warwick

Kim Warwick

Kim Warwick is a former Australian professional male tennis player mostly known for his doubles titles with Mark Edmondson, and for reaching the final of the singles Australian Open in 1980...

, Mike Estep

Mike Estep

Mike Estep is a former professional tennis player from the United States.During his career Estep won 2 singles titles and 7 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 59 in 1973 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No...

, Mark Wooldridge, and Jon Levine) in compiling a career singles win-lose record of 10 wins, 26 losses for Grand Prix events.

Fukui lost to Tony Roche

Tony Roche

Anthony "Tony" Dalton Roche is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He won one Grand Slam singles title and twelve Grand Slam doubles titles. He is also very well known for coaching...

 at the 1978 Tokyo Outdoor 7-5, 4-6, 1-6; Ilie Năstase

Ilie Nastase

Ilie Nastase is a Romanian former professional tennis player, one of the world's top players of the 1970s. Năstase was the World No. 1 tennis player between 1973 and 1974 . He is one of the five players in history to win more than 100 ATP professional titles . He was inducted into the...

 at the 1978 Tokyo Indoor

1978 Tokyo Indoor

The 1978 Tokyo Indoor also known as the "Seiko World Super Tennis" was a tennis tournament played on Indoor courts in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the 1978 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. The tournament was held from October 1 through October 5, 1978...

 1-6, 4-6; Yannick Noah

Yannick Noah

Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...

 at the 1979 Tokyo Indoor

1979 Tokyo Indoor

The 1979 Tokyo Indoor also known as the "Seiko World Super Tennis" was a tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet Courts in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. The tournament was held from October 30 through November 4, 1979...

 2-6, 5-7; Björn Borg

Björn Borg

Björn Rune Borg is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles and six French Open singles titles...

 at the 1980 Tokyo Indoor

1980 Tokyo Indoor

The 1980 Tokyo Indoor also known as the "Seiko World Super Tennis" was a tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet Courts in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix. The tournament was held from October 30 through November 4, 1980...

 2-6, 2-6; Eliot Teltscher

Eliot Teltscher

Eliot Teltscher is a retired professional American tennis player.-Early years:Teltscher's mother was born in Israel; his father emigrated there during the Holocaust, and joined the British army...

 at the 1981 Tokyo Outdoor 1-6, 2-6; John McEnroe

John McEnroe

John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

 at the 1981 Tokyo Indoor

1981 Tokyo Indoor

The 1981 Tokyo Indoor also known as the "Seiko World Super Tennis" was a tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet Courts in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the 1981 Volvo Grand Prix. The tournament was held from October 26 through October 30, 1981...

 3-6, 2-6; Miloslav Mečíř, Sr. at the 1987 Tokyo Outdoor 5-7, 1-6; and Stefan Edberg

Stefan Edberg

Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He also won one season ending championship title the Masters Grand Prix...

 at the 1987 Tokyo Indoor

1987 Tokyo Indoor

The 1987 Tokyo Indoor also known as "Seiko Super Tennis" was a tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet Courts in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. The tournament was held from October 20 through October 24, 1987...

 5-7, 2-6. His best win was the one over Kim Warwick, a top 50 player, at the 1982 Hong Kong Grand Prix, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6.

In doubles, Fukui competed in one Grand Slam event main draw, the 1980 French Open

1980 French Open

List of the 1980 French Open champions:- Men's singles : Björn Borg def. Vitas Gerulaitis, 6–4, 6–1, 6–2*It was Borg's 9th career Grand Slam title, and his 5th French Open title.-Women's singles: Chris Evert def...

. He and partner Peter Holl defeated Jean Luc Cotard and Thierry Tulasne

Thierry Tulasne

Thierry Tulasne is a former tennis player from France, who won five singles titles during his professional career. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on August 4, 1986, when he became number 10 in the world. After his retirement, he has coached players such as Sébastien Grosjean and...

 in the first round but lost their next match to Heinz Gunthardt

Heinz Günthardt

Heinz Peter Günthardt is a former tennis player from Switzerland, who won five singles titles during his professional career, including the Rotterdam WCT in 1980....

 and Pavel Složil

Pavel Složil

Pavel Složil is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia....

. His best showing in the Grand Prix tourney was reaching the third round of the 1979 Tokyo Outdoor, partnering Davis Cup teammate Jun Kamiwazumi

Jun Kamiwazumi

is a former Japan Davis Cup team player and tour tennis player.A native of Ishikawa Prefecture, Kamiwazumi competed in sixteen Grand Slam tennis events between 1972 and 1976. His best singles result was reaching the final 32 in the 1973 U.S. Open. His biggest grand slam tourney win was a first...

. He won no doubles titles on tour and earned a career-high ranking of World No. 355, in July 1985.

Domestically, Fukui was singles champion of the All Japan Tennis Championships a record 7 times (1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1988). He was runner-up in 1989, at age 32, and doubles champion once, in 1980 and partnering Kamiwazumi.

Fukui resided in Tokyo when on the pro tour.