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Cody Wong Hong-yi ( zh, 王康怡; born 14 March 2002) is a Hong Kong
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player. Her brother
Jack Wong Jack Wong, or Huang Zhang (), is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Meizu, a Chinese consumer electronics company. Early life Jack Wong was born on February 13, 1976 in Meixian, Meizhou, Guangdong. At the ...
is also a professional tennis player. Wong has a career-high singles ranking by the
Women's Tennis Association The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women and was founded to create a better future for women's tenn ...
(WTA) of 319, achieved on 26 June 2023, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 156, attained on 17 October 2022. She has won three singles and 16 doubles titles on the
ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmental ...
. In 2020, Wong reached the quarterfinals in Australian Open girls' singles, which was the best ever result of Hong Kong players in Australian Open juniors, and the first Hong Kong player to reach quarterfinals of Grand Slam singles since
Patricia Hy-Boulais Patricia Hy-Boulais (born 22 August 1965) is a former tennis player. She turned professional on 12 October 1986. Early in her career she represented Hong Kong (since the beginning until the end of the 1987 season). She became a citizen of Canada ...
in 1983. In 2019, she also advanced to semifinals in girls' doubles of the US Open, and quarterfinals of the French Open, again the best ever result of female Hong Kong players in US Open and French Open juniors. Wong won five singles and seven doubles titles at the juniors ITF World Tennis Tour, with a career high ranking of 18. Wong first played on the WTA Tour in the 2016 Hong Kong Open, when she was awarded a wildcard for the qualifying draw, and again in 2017 and 2018. She began competing on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2017, and won her first singles title in October 2019 in Hua Hin, Thailand. Since returning after the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2021, Wong has a breakout season with one singles and 13 doubles titles, including her first $25k and $60k doubles title. She holds a 50–4 record when pairing up with
Eudice Chong Eudice Chong (born 22 April 1996) is a professional tennis player from Hong Kong. Chong has thus far captured four singles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2022, she reached career-highs in both singles and doubles whe ...
, winning ten titles together. Wong also represents
Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
in the
Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ...
. In May 2023, Wong won her first $25k singles title in Incheon, South Korea.


ITF Circuit finals


Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner–ups)


Doubles: 22 (16 titles, 5 runner–ups, 1 not played)


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* * * 2002 births Living people Hong Kong female tennis players Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade medalists for Hong Kong Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade Tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games {{HongKong-tennis-bio-stub