Chan Yung-Jan was born on August 17, 1989 in Taipei, Chinese Taipei. She is a young and promising tennis player.

Biography and Career :

After becoming a professional tennis player in 2004 she started winning tournaments and titles. Until now (2007) she has twelve ITF single titles, four WTA doubles titles and nine ITF doubles titles.

The single tournaments were won at Colombo, Jakarta, Taipei, Fukuoma, Melbourne, Kurume, Kao-hsiung, Dothan and Gifu. Her opponents in the finals were Montinee Tangphong, Sandy Gumulya, Wen-Hsin Hsu, Seiko Okamoto, Ayumi Morita, Sophie Ferguson, Chia-Jung Chuang, Su-Wei Hsieh, Alla Kudryavtseva and Casey Dellaqua and they played especially on hard and carpet.

In 2006 she played another two finals, at Gosford and Tokyo, but she lost in the f inals to Jarmila Gajdosova and Ayumi Morita. The four WTA doubles tournaments that she won were played at Seoul, Bangalore, Birmingham and Hertogenbosch and every time her partner was Chia-Jung Chuang. In fact she was her partner all the time and they won twelve titles. The first doubles title Chan won was played along P. Thingdach.

In 2007 she played another four doubles finals: at Australian Open, Pattaya, Indian Wells and Istanbul. Her single performances at the Grand Slam tournaments aren't very good: she played the first round at Wimbledon in 2006, at US Open in 2005 and 2006 and at the Australian Open in 2007.

She is still very young and her professional career started only three years ago. Her way in the tennis world is long and we hope she will make a nice figure.

Trivia :

- Height: 170 cm
- Weight: 60 kg
- She plays: right-handed.
- She turned pro in 2004.

Career Review :

- Singles Record: 111-34
- Singles Titles: 12
- Doubles Record: 114-25
- Doubles Titles: 13
- Prize Money: $419,568
- Career High ATP Ranking - Singles: 50 (11-Jun-2007).
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Category: Sport Stars  - ( Sport Stars Archive)

Date Added: 19 October '07

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