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Chen Yanchong (; ; born 10 April 1987), is a WTA professional women's
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 from the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. She was born in
Hengyang Hengyang (; ) is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China. It straddles the Xiang River about south of the provincial capital of Changsha. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Its total population was 6,645,243 inhabitants, whom 1,290,715 l ...
,
Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...
province in China. A member of the Chinese Olympic team in 2003, Chen is the best tennis player of the
Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
team, with a ranking of the 14th best Chinese player overall. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 187, which she reached on 6 November 2006. Her career high in doubles is 157, which she reached on 6 November 2006. Chen has won 3 ITF singles title and 4 doubles titles.


Career statistics


Singles finals: 5 (3–2)


Doubles finals: 8 (4–4)


See also

* Chinese tennis players *
Tennis in China Tennis in China is a rapidly growing sport that has received much private and public support, and has today become firmly entrenched in the Chinese as one of the most popular. Tennis is now the third-most popular sport on television in China, b ...


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* * 1987 births Living people Chinese female tennis players Sportspeople from Guangzhou Tennis players from Guangdong {{PRChina-tennis-bio-stub