[1] Yuki was among the most notable of a cadre of fine players who helped Japan to win five of the six Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions held between 1966 and 1981.

[3] At the 1972 Olympics, she won a bronze medal in Women's singles, when badminton was played as a demonstration sport.

In the latter part of her career she earned a women's singles bronze medal at the first IBF World Championships in 1977.

Yuki overcame an Achilles tendon rupture early in her career to compile her impressive record.

[4] In 1986, she married Kenji Niinuma, a Japanese popular enka singer, and together they later had two children, a son and a daughter.