Yang Tsung-hua (; born March 29, 1991) is a Taiwanese professional

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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

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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 Vasek Pospisil ( ; cs, Vašek Pospíšil, ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high world singles ranki ...

, the

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and the 2008 Wimbledon Boys' Doubles titles.

Pro tour

Yang competes today on the

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and the

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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

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. Later he qualified to the ATP Bangkok, where he lost in first round to

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. In 2013, he defeated

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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

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and Wu Di. Yang defeated

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to reach third round of qualifying of the

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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

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and

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to reach semifinals, where he was defeated by

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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

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Tsung-Hua 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