Chan Hao-ching (; ; born September 19, 1993), also known as Angel Chan, is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She is primarily a doubles specialist, having won 18 WTA, 2 WTA Challenger and 6 ITF titles in that discipline. Chan reached the final of the mixed-doubles competition at
Wimbledon
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with
Max Mirnyi in 2014, her first
Grand Slam final. She reached two more finals in 2017, the
Wimbledon women's doubles with
Monica Niculescu, and the
US Open mixed doubles with
Michael Venus. She is the younger sister of fellow professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women's doubles,
Latisha Chan, formerly known as ''Chan Yung-jan''.
Tennis career
2013
At the beginning of the season, Chan won the
Shenzhen Open with her sister Chan Yung-jan, beating
Irina Buryachok and
Valeria Solovieva
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in straight sets. She reached the quarterfinals of the
Indian Wells Masters with
Janette Husárová
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On 13 January 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 31. On 21 April 2003, she peaked at No. 3 in the doubles rankings.
She won the WTA Tour Championship ...
, falling to
Ekaterina Makarova and
Elena Vesnina. At the
Portugal Open
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, she won her second title of the year with
Kristina Mladenovic, defeating
Darija Jurak and
Katalin Marosi
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In her career, Marosi won 15 singles and 31 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 May 2000, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. ...
in straight sets. Chan reached the second round of the
French Open
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with Darija Jurak. She then suffered first round losses at both
Wimbledon
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and the
US Open, and also reached the finals of the
Southern California Open
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with
Janette Husárová
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On 13 January 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 31. On 21 April 2003, she peaked at No. 3 in the doubles rankings.
She won the WTA Tour Championship ...
and the
Pan Pacific Open with
Liezel Huber. She finished 2013 ranked 26th.
2014
At
Wimbledon
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, Chan reached the finals of the mixed-doubles draw with Max Mirnyi to reach her first Grand Slam final. Along the way, they defeated the defending champions
Daniel Nestor
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Nestor won 91 men's doubles titles (with 11 different partners), including an Olympic gold medal
...
and Kristina Mladenovic in straight sets. However, the pair lost the final to
Nenad Zimonjić and
Samantha Stosur, also in straight sets.
2015
Early in the year, Chan won the title at the
Thailand Open with her sister, defeating
Shuko Aoyama and
Tamarine Tanasugarn in three sets. They won their fourth WTA doubles title together at the
Western & Southern Open
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, and by doing so, now have the second largest number of WTA Tour doubles titles for a pair of sisters in WTA history following only
Serena
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and
Venus Williams. Cincinnati represents their biggest title yet, their first at the
Premier-5 level. Next, they won another title at the
Japan Women's Open
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in Tokyo.
The Chans reached two other finals, at the Pan Pacific Open, losing to
Garbiñe Muguruza and
Carla Suárez Navarro, and the China Open, losing to the No. 1 pairing of
Martina Hingis and
Sania Mirza. Hao-Ching and Yung-Jan became the third all-sister pairing to qualify for the
WTA Finals after
Manuela Maleeva and
Katerina Maleeva in 1986 and the Williams sisters in 2009. They reached the semifinals, losing again to Hingis and Mirza. It was Chan's first appearance at the tournament. She finished 2015 ranked 12th, her best year-end ranking so far.
2017
The Chan sisters ended their doubles partnership early in 2017, with Yung-jan teaming up with Martina Hingis, while Hao-ching had a variety of teammates. Hao-ching became only the second Taiwanese woman, following 2013 champion
Hsieh Su-wei, to reach the Wimbledon women's doubles final. Playing with
Monica Niculescu, who was also making her first appearance in a Grand Slam final, they were overwhelmed 6–0, 6–0 by the pair of Makarova and Vesnina. It was only the second such result in a final in the history of the competition.
During the tournament at Cincinnati, she had arranged to play in the mixed doubles at the US Open with New Zealander Michael Venus. With both having current individual rankings of 12, they were the third seeds for the tournament. Although they knew about each other, they didn't actually meet for the first time until they were walking to the court for their first match together. After four wins on their "lucky" court 17, they were through to the final against top seeds Martina Hingis and
Jamie Murray. Outclassed in the first set, losing 1–6 in just 22 minutes, they fought back to win the second set 6–4, setting up a match tiebreaker. With a couple of minibreaks from both teams, it was tied up at 8–8 before Hingis and Murray finally took the match and the title, remaining unbeaten as a pair after teaming up for the first time at
Wimbledon
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two months earlier.
Equipment
The Chan sisters use
Wilson
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racquets. They are also sponsored by
Taiwan Mobile,
EVA Air,
and French apparel company
Lacoste.
Performance timeline
Doubles
Significant finals
Grand Slam tournaments
Women's doubles: 1 (runner-up)
Mixed doubles: 3 (runner-ups)
Premier-Mandatory & Premier-5 tournaments
Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)
WTA career finals
Doubles: 32 (18 titles, 14 runner-ups)
WTA Challenger finals
Doubles: 2 (2 titles)
ITF Circuit finals
Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner–ups)
Notes
References
External links
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Chan Hao-chingprofile on Sportsway
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Living people
1993 births
Taiwanese people of Hakka descent
Hakka sportspeople
Taiwanese female tennis players
Sportspeople from Taichung
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
Asian Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Taiwan
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in tennis
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Universiade gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics