Chan Yung-jan

Chan Yung-jan
詹詠然

Country	Chinese Taipei
Residence	Taipei, Taiwan
Born	August 17, 1989 (1989-08-17) (age 22) Dongshi, Taichung County (now part of Taichung City), Taiwan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	August 2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$1,266,308
Singles
Career record	190–97
Career titles	0 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 50 (June 11, 2007)
Current ranking	No. 133 (October 24, 2011)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (2009)
French Open	3R (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2010)
US Open	3R (2010)
Doubles
Career record	209–71
Career titles	9 WTA, 13 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 6 (August 18, 2008)
Current ranking	No. 45 (October 24, 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	F (2007)
French Open	QF (2007, 2008)
Wimbledon	3R (2007)
US Open	F (2007)
Other Doubles tournaments
WTA Championships	SF (2007)
Olympic Games	2R (2008)
Last updated on: January 10, 2011.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chan (詹).

Chan Yung-jan
Traditional Chinese	詹詠然
Simplified Chinese	詹咏然
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Zhān Yǒngrán

Chan Yung-jan (Chinese: 詹詠然, born August 17, 1989 in Dongshi, Taichung County (now part of Taichung City), Taiwan) is a professional female tennis player from Republic of China (Chinese Taipei; Taiwan). She has won 13 ITF singles titles; and 7 WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. Her career highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006 and finals in the PTT Bangkok Open in 2007 (l. to Flavia Pennetta) .

In the Australian Open 2007, she lost to her first-round opponent Alicia Molik 2–6 6–7(3). Nevertheless, she reached the final in the women's doubles with another Taiwanese player, Chuang Chia-jung, where they lost in three sets to Cara Black and Liezel Huber. She lost in the first round of the 2007 French Open to Elena Likhovtseva, but made her top 50 debut afterwards, at #50. Her current ranking on the WTA circuit is No.129 (as of May 23, 2011).

Career highlights

Junior performance

Chan started playing in the junior circuit in 2002, and reached the SF stage at her first ITF junior event. With solid performances both in junior and challenger events, her combined junior ranking reached No. 2 on May 24, 2004.

However, her most significant junior victory came in 2004 Australian Open Junior Championships, where she partnered Sun Sheng-nan to win the double trophy. The achievement hinted at the emergence of a talented double player.

Professional performance

2003

While still a junior, Chan entered her very first pro tour in Tainan, where she reached the semi-final in the singles, and the quarter-final in the doubles.

2004

Chan started her professional career in 2004. By the end of 2004, she already was the singles title holder of three 10,000 USD ITF events, including Colombo, Jakarta 3, and Taipei. She also won three doubles titles in Jakarta 3, Haibara, and Mount Gambier.

2005

Chan's 2005 season got a strong start with a win in the 25,000 USD ITF event in Taipei. She also won a 50,000 USD ITF event in Fukuoka. Later that year, she qualified for the US Open, but failed to defeat Serena Williams in the first round. After the US Open, she played two qualifying events in Beijing and Seoul, but failed to enter the main draw. However, she teamed up with Chuang Chia-jung to win her first tour-level doubles title in Seoul.

2006

Chan played in the qualifying events of all four grand slams, and qualified into the main draws in Wimbledon and the US Open, but failed to beat resurgent Alicia Molik and Belgian Kirsten Flipkens respectively. Her breakthrough and first tour-level win came at the Tokyo Open, where she reached the SF stage by defeating local favourite and two-time winner Ai Sugiyama. The victory marked her first Top 30 win. She also participated in the doubles event of Tokyo Open and reached the final stage, once again partnering Chuang Chia-jung.

As for her achievements in the challenger circuit: she won the singles titles in Melbourne, Fukuoka, Kurume, and Kaohsiung. Together with regular partner Chuang Chia-jung she also won the doubles titles in Sydney, Gosford, Fukuoka, Kurume, and Kaohsiung. After her victory in Kaohsiung, she surged into the Top 100, and was ranked No. 73 in the singles.

2007

To establish herself in tour level, Chan has only participated in Tour events in the beginning of 2007. She entered the main draws of the Australian Open, Pattaya, Bangalore, and Indian Wells, but failed to advance past the first round. In Miami she reached the second round by defeating Nuria Llagostera Vives, before losing to first seed Maria Sharapova.

Chan finally found her footing after entering the clay court season. In Charleston, she qualified into the main draw, and stunned No. 39 ranked Séverine Brémond in two sets to set up a rematch against reigning Australian Open and Miami winner Serena Williams. Chan was 5–3 up before Serena retired with a groin injury. Her magical journey in Charleston ended in the third round, where she was defeated by Venus Williams in straight sets.

To improve her singles game, Chan entered three ITF pro events after Charleston, and won all three of them. With the success in three events, her ranking rose to career high No.50 on June 11, 2007. In Bangkok, Chan entered her first WTA singles final, but lost to No. 49 ranked Flavia Pennetta in two sets.

Her singles achievements aside, Chan's doubles performance has been stunning. Awarded with a wild-card entry, Chan and Chuang reached the Final stage of the Australian Open, which was Chan's first Grand Slam doubles event ever. On their way to the final, they defeated 2006 US Open doubles finalists Safina/Srebotnik and 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon champions Yan / Zheng. In February, they participated in two more events. They reached the final in both Pattaya and Bangalore, and won the double title in the latter.

In their Indian Wells debut, they again stormed into the final with back-to-back wins over 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon champs Yan / Zheng in the QF, and 2006 US Open champions Zvonareva / Dechy in the SF. However, they lost the final to 2006 Roland Garros champions Raymond / Stosur in straight sets. Had they won the final match, they would have beaten every 2006 Grand Slam champion team in one single event. So far, they have made it into the final in all six tour-level doubles events they'd entered. Their finals streak was broken in Miami, where they lost to Raymond / Stosur in the semi-final.

2008

At the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Chan became the last player that top ranked Justine Henin ever beat before she retired the following week.

She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in both singles and doubles.^[1]

2009

Chan at the 2009 US Open.

Starting season with an unexpected game lead of 5–1 advantage to Russian World No.4 Elena Dementieva in her first round match in Auckland, New Zealand, but ultimately lost the match. After then, results came uninspired other than winning a round on Melbourne Plexicushion, her first time to do so. It was diagnosed later a fatigue fracture in her left foot, which had to stop her season for 3 months from after Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, to when grass season kicked off. Chan suffered quite a number of upsets since the comeback, but rebounded just well in time during her Asian tour in Autumn, and delighted home crowds by sweeping both singles and doubles (w/Chuang) titles in the Taipei 100K+H ITF tournament. For the 4th year in a row, Chan finished season in top 100.

On the doubles court, Chan shocked World No.1s Cara Black and Liezel Huber with Romanian Monica Niculescu, in the quarter-finals of the Premier level tournament in Stanford. They were defeated by Serena and Venus Williams in the title match after taking out another seeded pair of Maria Kirilenko and Sorana Cirstea.

2010

In the US Open, Chan beat 2 former WTA Top 50s – Anne Keothavong and Tamira Paszek – to make her first R32 in a Grand Slam, her previous best results are R64 at 2008 US Open, 2009 Australian Open, and 2010 Wimbledon. In the third round, she lost 6–1, 6–0 to top seed and World No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki.

2011

In the 2011 Australian Open, Chan reached the final of mixed doubles with Paul Hanley to their first ever grand slam final. Along the way, they defeated defending champions and fourth seeds Cara Black and Leander Paes in two set tiebreakers. However, the pair lost to second seeds Daniel Nestor and Katarina Srebotnik in three sets.

Performance timelines

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Career SR	Career win-loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	LQ	1R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 4	1–4
French Open	A	A	A	LQ	1R	1R	A	1R	0 / 3	0–3
Wimbledon	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	0 / 5	1–5
US Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	LQ	3R	0 / 5	3–5
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 17	N/A
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–4	1–4	1–2	3–4	N/A	5–17
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held	A	Not Held			1R	Not Held		0 / 1	0–1
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	1R	3R	2R	2R	0 / 4	4–4
Miami	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	1R	LQ	0 / 3	2–3
Madrid	Not Held						A		0 / 0	0–0
Beijing	Not Held	Not Tier I					A		0 / 0	0–0
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I						1R	1R	0 / 2	0–2
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	A		0 / 0	0–0
Cincinnati	Not Held	Not Tier I					A		0 / 0	0–0
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A		0 / 1	0–1
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
Charleston	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	NM5		0 / 2	3–2
Moscow	A	A	A	A	A	A			0 / 0	0–0
Doha1	Not Tier I					1R	Not Held		0 / 1	0–1
Berlin	A	A	A	A	A	2R			0 / 1	1–1
San Diego1	A	A	A	A	1R	Not Held		NM5	0 / 0	0–0
Zurich1	A	A	A	A	A	Not Tier I	Not Held		0 / 0	0–0
WTA Tournaments played	0	0	1	3	17	15	14	7	N/A	57
Finals reached	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	N/A	1
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	N/A	0
Hardcourt Win-Loss	0–0	14–2	13–5	27–8	12–10	8–9	26–14	8–7	N/A	85–40
Clay Win-Loss	3–1	5–1	0–0	5–1	9–4	7–6	1–2	0–0	N/A	30–15
Grass Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–3	2–3	0–3	0–0	N/A	6–10
Carpet Win-Loss	0–0	3–1	7–2	10–1	12–2	3–1	3–1	0–0	N/A	36–6
Overall Win-Loss	3–1	22–4	20–7	45–11	34–19	28–28	30–20	8–7	N/A	190–97
Year End Ranking	N/A	489	219	96	67	68	94		N/A	N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament

LQ = Qualifying round loss

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

¹As of 2008, Doha is a Tier I tournament, replacing San Diego and Zurich.

Women's doubles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through 2009 Australian Open .

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Career SR	Career win-loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	F	3R	1R	3R	0 / 4	9–4
French Open	A	A	A	A	QF	QF	A	3R	0 / 3	8–3
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	1R	1R	0 / 4	2–4
US Open	A	A	A	A	F	1R	2R	SF	0 / 4	9–4
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 /15	N/A
Grand Slam win-loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	15–4	5–4	1–3	7–4	N/A	28–16
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held	A	Not Held			2R	Not Held		0 / 1	1–1
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	SF	A	A		0 / 1	0–1
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	F	QF	1R	SF	0 / 4	9–4
Miami	A	A	A	A	SF	2R	A	SF	0 / 3	7–3
Madrid	Not Held						A	2R	0 / 1	1–1
Beijing	Not Held	Not Tier I					A	2R	0 / 1	0–1
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I						QF	QF	0 / 2	3–2
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	W	A	A	1 / 1	5–0
Cincinnati	N/H	Not Tier I					A	QF	0 / 1	2–1
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	0 / 1	2–1
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	SF	0 / 2	1–2
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
Charleston	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	NM5		0 / 2	1–2
Moscow	A	A	A	A	A	A			0 / 0	0–0
Doha1	Not Tier I					QF	Not Held		0 / 1	1–1
Berlin	A	A	A	A	A	2R			0 / 1	0–1
San Diego1	A	A	A	A	SF	Not Held		NM5	0 / 1	3–1
Zurich1	A	A	A	A	QF	Not Tier I	Not Held		0 / 1	1–1
WTA Tournaments played	0	0	1	1	17	14	11	7	N/A	50
Finals reached	0	0	1	1	9	5	2	2	N/A	20
Tournaments Won	0	0	1	0	3	3	1	1	N/A	9
Hardcourt Win-Loss	0–0	13–2	12–3	18–3	32–9	20–12	20–10	32–12	N/A	134–45
Clay Win-Loss	1–0	4–2	0–0	3–1	10–3	15–5	3–0	3–2	N/A	39–13
Grass Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	8–1	0–2	1–3	1–2	N/A	10–7
Carpet Win-Loss	0–0	4–0	7–3	13–2	6–3	0–1	0–0	0–0	N/A	30–9
Overall Win-Loss	1–0	21–4	19–6	34–6	56–16	35–20	24–13	36–17	N/A	209–71
Year-end doubles ranking	N/A	287	148	107	8	15	52		N/A	N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of doubles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

¹As of 2008, Doha is a Tier I tournament, replacing San Diego and Zurich.

Mixed Doubles Performance Timeline

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	Career win-loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	F	2–1
French Open	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A		0–2
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	A		2–2
US Open	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	A		1–2
Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–3	3–4	0–0	0–0	5–7
Team Tournaments
Hopman Cup	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0–0

Career statistics

Main article: Chan Yung-jan career statistics

See also

• Sport in Taiwan

References

1. ^ Olympic results

External links

• Chan Yung-jan at the Women's Tennis Association
• Chan Yung-jan ITF Tennis profile
• "Yung-Jan Chan". Junior Tennis, Inc.. http://www.juniortennis.com/ajt/playerinfo.php?player_id=295. Retrieved October 20, 2006. 

Persondata
Name	Chan, Yung-jan
Alternative names
Short description	Tennis player
Date of birth	August 17, 1989
Place of birth	Dongshi, Taichung, Taiwan
Date of death
Place of death