Peng Hsien-yin (; born 22 December 1989) is a

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professional

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player and competes mainly on the

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and

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, both in singles and doubles. Peng reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 956 on 9 July 2012, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 99, on 20 April 2015. Career to date, Peng has reacher 45 doubles finals all on the

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and

tours. Of those he has a final record of 21 wins and 24 losses. He competes for his native country of

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play. In singles matches, he has a record of 0 wins and 2 losses. In doubles matches, he has a record of 3 wins and 5 losses. In 2017 at the

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partnering

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of the Netherlands, Peng won his first-round qualifying match and even though he lost in the second and final qualifying round, was granted a lucky loser spot to successfully reach his first (and to date, his only) career Grand Slam main draw in men's doubles. In a rare twist of fate, their first round opponents were the same ones they lost to in qualifying, Swedish duo

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and Andreas Siljeström. This time the match was a back-and-forth tight five set thriller that span several hours, and ended with a 22-game 5th set. They were unfortunately on the losing end of a ''7–6^(7–4), 1–6, 6–4, 6–7^(4–7), 10–12'' score sheet. In 2018, Peng attempted to qualify again the following year at the

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partnering Aliaksandr Bury of

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, however they were defeated in the first round by

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and

Hsieh Cheng-peng Hsieh Cheng-peng (; born 22 September 1991) is an inactive tennis player from Taiwan. Alongside Yang Tsung-hua he won the 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. He won the 2009 US Open – Boys' doubles with Márton Fuc ...

''3–6, 6–4, 4–6''. Other than the 3 wins he has amounted from

matches, the only other win Peng has achieved at the

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level was at the 2015 Open Sud de France held on hard courts in

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. Partnering Mao-Xin Gong of China, they defeated the pairing of

Alexander Zverev Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to N ...

and

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''6–4, 7–6^(7–4)'' in the first round before losing in the second round quite handily to doubles specialists

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and

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''1–6, 1–6.''

ATP Challenger & ITF Futures finals

Doubles: 45 (21–24)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peng, Hsien-yin 1989 births Living people Taiwanese male tennis players People from Hsinchu Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in tennis Asian Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade gold medalists for Chinese Taipei Universiade silver medalists for Chinese Taipei Universiade bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade