Coaching Changes
She trained under Nobuo Sato, a ten-time Japanese national champion, for most of 19 years. She left Sato after the 2004 World Championships after she lost two competitions to Miki Ando, who Sato was coaching at the time. She moved to Chicago in the United States to train with Oleg Vasiliev during the fall of 2004, but switched back to Sato after the Japanese Skating Federation refused to let Suguri continue with Vasilev after her poor results that season. She returned to Sato and soon after Ando left Sato. Suguri left Sato again after the 2006–2007 season as she felt overshadowed by Yukari Nakano, who was also training with Sato at the time. Suguri decided to train in Russia with Alexander Zhulin, who had choreographed her programs that season. Due to Zhulin's marital problems, she had to spend most of her time with Igor Pashkevitch. Despite her love for Zhulin's choreography, she left him and moved her training ground to New Jersey to work with Nikolai Morozov. Under Morozov, she made the world team for the first time in three years. Despite her return to form, she left Morozov in the Summer of 2009 to train with Alexei Mishin in Russia, so she can work on triple/triple combinations and the triple axel. Mishin neglected Suguri and she spent most of her time with Igor Pashkevitch. With her new coaching situation, she finished 7th at the 2010 Japanese National Championships and is currently in neogiations to return to Morozov.
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