Yang Tsung-hua (; born March 29, 1991) is a Taiwanese professional
tennis
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player. On the junior circuit, Yang reached a career-high combined ranking of No. 1 in 2008, when he won the
French Open singles title against Polish player
Jerzy Janowicz in two sets, and the
Australian Open and
Wimbledon doubles titles alongside
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 ...
.
Career
Juniors
Yang was named
International Tennis Federation
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(ITF) Junior World Champion for the 2008 season by the ITF.
As a junior, he compiled a 66–23 win–loss record in singles (and 61–16 in doubles), achieving his combined ranking of No. 1 in the world in July 2008.
He reached 4 Junior Grand Slam finals in 2008, winning 3 titles. He started by losing the
2008 Australian Open – Boys' singles
Bernard Tomic won in the final 4–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–0, against Yang Tsung-hua and claimed the title, becoming the youngest player to win a grand slam title.
Brydan Klein was the defending champion, but did not compete in the juniors event t ...
final, then rebounded to win the
2008 Australian Open – Boys' doubles
Hsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua won the title by defeating Vasek Pospisil
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, the
2008 French Open – Boys' singles
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and the
2008 Wimbledon Boys' Doubles titles.
Pro tour
Yang competes today on the
ATP Challenger Tour
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and the
ATP World Tour
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, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 164, on 14 May 2012, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 127, on 15 July 2019. Yang is coached by Lhen Man.
In the
2012 US Open, Yang reached the third qualifying round, where he lost to
Teymuraz Gabashvili
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. Later he qualified to the
ATP Bangkok, where he lost in first round to
Grigor Dimitrov
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.
In 2013, he defeated
Tatsuma Ito
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to reach semifinals of the
An-Ning Challenger, where he lost to
James Ward. At
Kun-Ming he also reached semifinals after winning over
Yuichi Sugita
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Possible writings
Yūichi can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
*勇一, "courage, 1"
*祐一, "to help, 1"
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and
Wu Di.
Yang defeated
Marius Copil
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to reach third round of qualifying of the
2014 Australian Open
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, after which he lost to
Dušan Lajović. At the Maui Challenger he reach the final, where he lost to Bradley Klahn. At the
Liberec Challenger he beat world number 40
Pablo Cuevas
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He has won six singles titles and has a career-high singles ranking of ...
and
Norbert Gombos
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to reach semifinals, where he was defeated by
Horacio Zeballos
Horacio Zeballos Jr. (; born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 39 achieved in March 2013 and his career-high doubles ranking is world No. 3 achieved in September 2019. In dou ...
.
Challenger and Futures finals
Singles: 24 (11–13)
Doubles: 45 (25–20)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 2 (2 titles)
Singles performance timeline
''Current through the end of
2021 Acapulco.''
References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
French Open junior champions
People from Hsinchu
Taiwanese male tennis players
Wimbledon junior champions
Tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
Universiade bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade