Wong Wing-Luen, Wayne (, born March 21, 1981, in

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 Delt ...

) is a former

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from

. He also goes by the nickname "Wayne". As of February 14, 2005, Wong was #1158 in world in the ATP rankings, which is the highest in his career. The right-hander stands 5 feet 7 inches and weighs 140 pounds. Wong quickly emerged as one of Hong Kong's most highly touted junior players. Between 1995 and 1999, Wong was ranked No. 1 in the Hong Kong Boys' 18U age group each year since the age of 14. Highlights of his junior career include ascending to a number 137 junior world ranking. Wong is a member of the

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team, he debuted for Hong Kong at age 15 years 332 days in a reverse singles

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against

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in an Asia/

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Zone Group II First Round tie at

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in February 1997. He has compiled an 18–12 record in Davis Cup action since 1997. At the

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, Wayne won the first round singles match against Mongolia's Badrakh Munkhbaatar, also, he won the second round match against Pakistan's

Aqeel Khan Aqeel Khan (born 30 January 1980, in Karachi) is a Pakistani tennis player. He is the current Pakistani number one and National Champion. His favourite surface is Grass. He is coached by Pakistani tennis coach Jamil Khan, who is his fa ...

. He lost in the third round to eventual gold medalist

Danai Udomchoke Danai Udomchoke ( th, ดนัย อุดมโชค, born 11 August 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Thailand. He was born in Bangkok, where he still resides. Udomchoke turned professional in 1997, and was coached by Jan ...

. In doubles, he and Yu Hiu Tung lost to former World No. 1s and eventual gold medalists

Mahesh Bhupathi Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is an Indian former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a major tournament (with Rika Hiraki). With his win at the 2006 Australian Open mixed doubles, he ...

and

Leander Paes Leander Adrian Paes ( ; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players ever. He holds the record for the most doubles wins in the Davis Cup. Paes won eight men' ...

. But his run into the men's singles third round is the best result of the Hong Kong tennis team in this event.

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* * * * 1981 births Living people Hong Kong male tennis players Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Hong Kong {{HongKong-tennis-bio-stub