Albert Chang (born 27 February 1971) is a Canadian former professional tour tennis player. Chang reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 140 in September 1995 and won two
Challenger tournament
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s. He also played
Davis Cup for
Canada
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.
Chang was Canada's national junior champion in 1988 and played collegiately at
Harvard University
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, graduating with a degree in biology in 1992. He joined the pro tour in November of the same year, and won his first round match in each of his first three Challengers in singles while in doubles he reached the second round (i.e. the quarter-finals) in his first two events –
Halifax and
Launceston – while in the third he reached the semi-finals. In just his fifth Challenger, Chang reached the final, of the
Vancouver Challenger, and lost it to
Kenny Thorne.
Chang, a native in
Calgary, took the singles title at the
Celle Challenger, in February 1994. Two months later he won a couple of doubles titles, while partnering a couple of doubles legends, first with
Daniel Nestor (
Nagoya Challenger) and after that with
Leander Paes
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(
Manila Challenger). He won one final Challenger in July 1996, the
Aptos Challenger.
Chang appeared in the main draw of a
Grand Slam
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tournament three times, all in singles – the
1994 U.S. Open,
1995 Wimbledon Championships
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, and
1996 Wimbledon Championships
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. In all three events he lost in the first round, winning only one set. Chang's best result in an
ATP Tour
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event was reaching the quarter-finals of the
1994 Beijing Grand Prix and
1995 Volvo International in singles and the same round in doubles partnering
Brian Gyetko at the
1994 Canadian Open.
Chang contested two Davis Cup rubbers in two separate ties. In 1995 versus
Colombia he won a dead rubber over
Carlos Drada on carpet in
Kelowna. The following year he lost to
Jimy Szymanski
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He reached his highest junior world ranking of no. 1 in the world in summer 1993. He reached finals in Wimbledon Juniors 1993 and won the ...
in the deciding rubber in an away tie versus
Venezuela
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.
Personal
Chang's father, Airman, is a pathologist and a native of
Hong Kong
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while his mother, Yolanda, a botanist, is a native of
Taiwan
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.
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1971 births
Living people
Canadian male tennis players
Canadian people of Hong Kong descent
Harvard Crimson men's tennis players
Canadian expatriate tennis players in the United States
Sportspeople from Calgary
Racket sportspeople from British Columbia