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Latisha Chan

Chan Y.J. RG16 (7) (27127268820).jpg
Chan at the 2016 French Open

Country (sports)
 Chinese Taipei
Residence Taipei City
Born
(1989-08-17) August 17, 1989 (age 29)
Dongshi, Taichung County
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro August 2004
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach Chan Yuan-liang (her father)
Prize money
US$5,012,566
Singles
Career record 292–179 (62%)
Career titles 0 WTA, 17 ITF
Highest ranking No. 50 (11 June 2007)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 2R (2009, 2013)
French Open 3R (2011)
Wimbledon 2R (2010)
US Open 3R (2010)
Doubles
Career record 479–206 (69.93%)
Career titles 29 WTA, 2 WTA 125s, 16 ITF
Highest ranking
No. 1 (23 October 2017)
Current ranking No. 21 (22 October 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open F (2007, 2015)
French Open SF (2017)
Wimbledon QF (2017)
US Open
W (2017)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals SF (2007, 2015, 2017)
Olympic Games QF (2016)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open F (2011)
French Open
W (2018)
Wimbledon SF (2011)
US Open SF (2014, 2015, 2016)
Team competitions
Fed Cup 13–12
Last updated on: 24 October 2018.


Latisha Chan (born August 17, 1989), formerly known by her Chinese name Chan Yung-jan (Chinese: 詹詠然; pinyin: Zhān Yǒngrán; Taiwanese Mandarin: [tsán jʊ̀ŋ zǎn, -lǎn]),[1] is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She is known mainly for her success in doubles competitions, having won 28 titles, including the 2017 US Open in women’s doubles, and the 2018 French Open in mixed doubles. She also finished runner-up in three other Grand Slam finals: the 2007 and 2015[2] Australian Open, as well as the 2007 US Open. Highlights of her singles career include the semifinals at the 2006 Japan Open and the final at the PTT Bangkok Open in 2007. She reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 50 on June 11, 2007, and doubles ranking of No. 1 on October 23, 2017, becoming the second-ever Taiwanese world No. 1 doubles player after compatriot Hsieh Su-wei. On August 13, 2018, she returned to the number one ranking in WTA doubles.[3]


Chan is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Transnational Sport Management and Innovation at National Taiwan Sport University.[4] She is the elder sister of fellow professional tennis player Chan Hao-ching (also known as Angel Chan).




Contents






  • 1 Junior performance


  • 2 Professional career


    • 2.1 2003–2005


    • 2.2 2006


    • 2.3 2007


    • 2.4 2008


    • 2.5 2009


    • 2.6 2010–2014


    • 2.7 2015: Australian Open doubles final


    • 2.8 2017: US Open doubles champion, world No. 1


    • 2.9 2018: Struggles with form, French Open mixed doubles title




  • 3 Equipment


  • 4 Significant finals


    • 4.1 Grand Slam


      • 4.1.1 Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)


      • 4.1.2 Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)




    • 4.2 Premier-Mandatory/Premier-5 tournaments


      • 4.2.1 Doubles: 12 (9 titles, 3 runners-up)






  • 5 Grand Slam performance timelines


    • 5.1 Singles


    • 5.2 Women's Doubles


    • 5.3 Mixed Doubles




  • 6 Career statistics


  • 7 See also


  • 8 References


  • 9 External links





Junior performance


Chan started playing in the Junior Circuit in 2002 and reached the semifinal 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 at the 2004 Australian Open Junior Championships, where she partnered Sun Sheng-nan to win the doubles trophy. The achievement hinted at the emergence of a talented double player.



Professional career




Latisha Chan



2003–2005


While still a junior, Chan 2003 entered her very first pro-tour event in Taiwan. She reached the semifinals in singles and the quarterfinals in doubles.
She started her professional career in 2004. By the end of the year, she already was the singles title holder of three $10,000 events, including Colombo, Jakarta 3, and Taipei. She also won three doubles titles at Jakarta 3, Haibara, and Mount Gambier.
Her 2005 season got off to a strong start with a win at a $25,000 event in Taipei. She also won a $50,000 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 Australian Alicia Molik and Belgian Kirsten Flipkens, respectively. Her breakthrough and first tour-level win came at the Tokyo Open, where she reached the semifinal 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 and reached the finals, once again partnering Chuang Chia-jung.


On the Challenger Circuit, she won the singles titles in Melbourne, Fukuoka, Kurume, and Kaohsiung. Together with regular partner Chuang, 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 singles.



2007


To establish herself at the WTA Tour level, Chan only participated in those events at the beginning of 2007. She entered the main draws of the Australian Open, at 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 top 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 a career high No. 50 on June 11. In Bangkok, Chan reached her first WTA singles final, but lost to No. 49 ranked Flavia Pennetta in two sets.


Her singles achievements aside, Chan also had success in doubles in 2007. Awarded with a wildcard entry, Chan and Chuang reached the finals of the Australian Open, which was Chan's first Grand Slam doubles event. On their way to the final, they defeated 2006 US Open doubles finalists Dinara Safina and Katarina Srebotnik and 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon champions Yan Zi and Zheng Jie. In February, the Chans participated in two more events. They reached the final at both Pattaya and Bangalore, and won the doubles title in the latter.


In their Indian Wells debut, the Chans again stormed into the final with back-to-back wins over 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon champs Yan Zi and Zheng Jie in the quarterfinals, and 2006 US Open champions Vera Zvonareva and Nathalie Dechy in the semifinals. However, they lost the final to 2006 Roland Garros champions Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in straight sets. Had they won the final match, they would have defeated every 2006 Grand Slam champion team in one single event. At that point, they had made it into the final in all six tour-level doubles events they had entered. Their finals streak was broken in Miami, when they lost to Raymond and Stosur in the semifinal.



2008


At the German Open in Berlin, Chan became the last player whom top-ranked Justine Henin ever defeated before she retired the following week. Chan represented her country at the Beijing Olympics, in both singles and doubles.[5]



2009




Chan at the 2009 US Open


Chan started the season with an unexpected lead of 5–1 against Russian world No. 4, Elena Dementieva, in their first round match in Auckland. Chan ultimately lost the match to the eventual champion. After that, her results were uninspiring other than winning a round at the Australian Open, her first time to do so.


Chan was diagnosed with a fatigue fracture in her left foot, which stopped her season for three months after the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami to when the grass season kicked off. She suffered quite a number of upsets after her comeback, but rebounded just in time for the Asian tour in the autumn. She delighted home crowds by sweeping both the singles and doubles (with Chuang) titles in the Taipei 100K+H ITF tournament. For the fourth year in a row, Chan finished the season in the top 100.


On the doubles court, Chan shocked the world No. 1 team of Cara Black and Liezel Huber with Romanian Monica Niculescu, in the quarterfinals 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 Cîrstea.



2010–2014


In the 2010 US Open, Chan beat two former WTA top-50s – Anne Keothavong and Tamira Paszek – to make her first round of 32 in a Grand Slam tournament, her previous best results had been the round of 64 at the 2008 US Open, 2009 Australian Open, and 2010 Wimbledon. In the third round, she lost 1–6, 0–6 to top seed and world No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki.


In the 2011 Australian Open, she reached the final of mixed doubles with Paul Hanley, their first Grand Slam final. Along the way, they defeated the defending champions, and fourth-seeded, Cara Black and Leander Paes, in two set-tiebreakers. However, this team lost the final to second seeds Daniel Nestor and Katarina Srebotnik in three sets.


Chan reached the semifinals of 2012 Mercury Insurance Open, losing to Marion Bartoli 6–1, 3–6, 3–6.[6]


2014, she lost the title match of the Taipei WTA Challenger to Vitalia Diatchenko 6–1, 2–6, 4–6.[7]



2015: Australian Open doubles final


Chan lost her third Grand Slam doubles final at the Australian Open.[8] She and her sister won their fourth WTA doubles title together at the Western & Southern Open, and by doing so, now have the second-most doubles titles for a pair of sisters in WTA history after only Serena and Venus Williams. The Chans previous three WTA doubles titles came at Shenzhen in 2013, Eastbourne in 2014, and Pattaya City in 2015. Cincinnati represents their biggest title yet, their first at the Premier-5 level.[9] They would go on to win another title at the Japan Women's Open in Tokyo.[10]



2017: US Open doubles champion, world No. 1


In February 2017, Chan teamed up with former world No. 1 Martina Hingis for the women's doubles competition at the Dubai Duty Free Championship. Hingis had split from short-time American partner CoCo Vandeweghe due to limited success together. In March, Chan won at Indian Wells with Hingis, as they defeated Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova in the final.[11] This was the first Premier Mandatory title for Chan, the first big title of her career.[12] The team added titles in Madrid and Rome with final victories over Tímea Babos and Andrea Hlaváčková[13] and Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina, respectively.[14]


Chan and Hingis played their first Grand Slam tournament together at the 2017 French Open. They advanced to the semifinals, where they lost to the eventual champions, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová.


In September, she and Hingis won their first Grand Slam women's doubles title together at the US Open when they defeated Hradecká and Siniaková in straight sets. This was their seventh title of the season.


They would win their next title at the Wuhan Open, their third Premier-5 crown of the year. The following tournament, the season's last Premier Mandatory event, they would win their ninth title of the season at the Beijing event. That means they won three out of the four Premier Mandatory events in 2017, only missing out on the Miami Open where they lost in the semifinals. It also meant that they won six of the nine Premier-5/Premier-Mandatory tournaments of the season.



2018: Struggles with form, French Open mixed doubles title


Chan has been struggling in 2018 since Hingis retired. Apart from winning her maiden mixed-doubles title in French Open with Ivan Dodig, she did not win any titles during her reign as world No. 1. Finally, Chan dropped out of that position after losing in the second round at Roland Garros. After a Premier title in San Jose (with Květa Peschke) and a Premier-5 final in Montreal (with Ekaterina Makarova), Chan returned to the No. 1 ranking in doubles only for one week before dropping out of top ten later in the rest of the season.



Equipment


The Chan sisters use Wilson racquets. They are also sponsored by Taiwan Mobile, EVA Air,[15] and French apparel company Lacoste.



Significant finals



Grand Slam



Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)
















































Outcome
Year
Championship
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Runner-up 2007 Australian Open Hard
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung

Zimbabwe Cara Black
South Africa Liezel Huber
4–6, 7–6(7–4), 1–6
Runner-up 2007 US Open Hard
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung

France Nathalie Dechy
Russia Dinara Safina
4–6, 2–6
Runner-up 2015 Australian Open Hard
China Zheng Jie

United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Czech Republic Lucie Šafářová
4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Winner 2017 US Open Hard
Switzerland Martina Hingis

Czech Republic Lucie Hradecka
Czech Republic Katerina Siniakova
6–3, 6–2


Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)






























Outcome
Year
Championship
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Runner-up 2011 Australian Open Hard
Australia Paul Hanley

Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik
Canada Daniel Nestor
3–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Winner 2018 French Open Clay
Croatia Ivan Dodig

Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
Croatia Mate Pavic
6–1, 6–7(5–7), [10–8]


Premier-Mandatory/Premier-5 tournaments



Doubles: 12 (9 titles, 3 runners-up)
























































































































Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up

2007

Indian Wells Masters
Hard

Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung

United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Samantha Stosur
3–6, 5–7
Winner

2008

Italian Open, Rome
Clay

Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung

Czech Republic Iveta Benešová
Slovakia Janette Husárová
7–6(7–5), 6–3
Winner

2015

Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Hard

Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching

Australia Casey Dellacqua
Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova
7–5, 6–4
Runner-up

2015

China Open, Beijing
Hard

Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching

Switzerland Martina Hingis
India Sania Mirza
7–6(11–9), 1–6, [8–10]
Winner

2016

Qatar Total Open, Doha
Hard

Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching

Italy Sara Errani
Spain Carla Suárez Navarro
6–3, 6–3
Winner

2017

BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells
Hard

Switzerland Martina Hingis

Czech Republic Lucie Hradecka
Czech Republic Katerina Siniakova
7–6(7–4), 6–2
Winner

2017

Madrid Open
Clay

Switzerland Martina Hingis

Hungary Tímea Babos
Czech Republic Andrea Hlaváčková
6–4, 6–3
Winner

2017
Italian Open, Rome (2)
Clay

Switzerland Martina Hingis

Russia Ekaterina Makarova
Russia Elena Vesnina
7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Winner

2017
Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati (2)
Hard

Switzerland Martina Hingis

Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
Romania Monica Niculescu
4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Winner

2017

Wuhan Open
Hard

Switzerland Martina Hingis

Japan Shuko Aoyama
China Yang Zhaoxuan
7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–4]
Winner

2017
China Open, Beijing (2)
Hard

Switzerland Martina Hingis

Hungary Tímea Babos
Czech Republic Andrea Hlaváčková
6–1, 6–4
Runner-up

2018

Canadian Open, Canada
Hard

Russia Ekaterina Makarova

Australia Ashleigh Barty
Netherlands Demi Schuurs
6–4, 3–6, [8–10]


Grand Slam performance timelines



Singles
































































































































Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 SR W–L

Australian Open
A
A
A

Q2

1R

1R

2R

1R

Q3
A

2R

1R

Q1
0 / 6
2–6

French Open
A
A
A

Q1

1R

1R
A

1R

3R

2R
A
A

Q2
0 / 5
3–5

Wimbledon
A
A
A

1R

1R

1R

1R

2R

Q1

Q1
A
A
A
0 / 5
1–5

US Open
A
A

1R

1R

1R

2R

Q3

3R

1R

Q3

Q2

1R

Q2
0 / 7
3–7
Win–Loss
0–0
0–0
0–1
0–2
0–4
1–4
1–2
3–4
2–2
1–1
1–1
0–2
0–0
0 / 23
9–23
Year-end ranking

489
219
96
67
68
94
109
132
106
248
212
406



Women's Doubles


























































































































































Tournament 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 SR W–L

Australian Open
A
A
A

F

3R

1R

3R

3R
A

1R

1R

F

QF

1R
0 / 10
19–10

French Open
A
A
A

QF

QF
A

3R

3R

3R
A

2R

3R

QF

SF
0 / 9
22–9

Wimbledon
A
A
A

3R

1R

1R

1R

2R

1R
A

1R

1R

2R

QF
0 / 10
7–10

US Open
A
A
A

F

1R

2R

SF

1R

1R

1R

2R

QF

2R

W
1 / 11
21–10
Win–Loss
0–0
0–0
0–0
15–4
5–4
1–3
8–4
5–4
2-3
0–2
2–4
10–4
8–4
13–3
1 / 40
69–39
Finals won
0
1
0
3
3
1
1
0
0
1
1
3
3
10
27 / 47
27-20
Year-end ranking
373
148
119
8
17
52
18
42
72
98
36
7
12

1



Mixed Doubles















































































































Tournament 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 W-L

Australian Open
A
A
A
A

QF
A
A

F
A
A
A

1R

QF

2R
9–5

French Open
A
A
A

1R

1R
A
A

2R
A
A
A

QF

QF

1R
5–6

Wimbledon
A
A
A

3R

3R
A

QF

SF
A
A

1R

2R

3R
WD
10–7

US Open
A
A
A

2R

1R
A

1R

2R
A

2R

SF

SF

SF

2R
13–9
Win–Loss
0–0
0–0
0–0
2–3
3–4
0–0
2–2
9–4
0–0
1–1
3–2
6–4
9–4
2–3
37–27


Career statistics




See also


  • Sport in Taiwan


References





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  15. ^ "EVA Air Athletic Sponsorships". EVA Air. 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2017.




External links








  • Latisha Chan at the Women's Tennis Association Edit this at Wikidata


  • Latisha Chan at the International Tennis Federation Edit this at Wikidata


  • "Yung-Jan Chan". Junior Tennis, Inc. Archived from the original on November 6, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2006.
















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