Country (sports) Chinese Taipei Name Yang Tsung-hua Turned pro 2006 Weight 77 kg | Career record 5–18 Height 1.78 m Prize money $334,765 Role Tennis player Residence Taiwan | |
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Born March 29, 1991 (age 32)
Taiwan ( 1991-03-29 ) Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career titles 0
0 Challengers, 5 Futures | ||
Highest ranking No. 164 (14 May 2012) | ||
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Yang Tsung-hua (Chinese: 楊宗樺), born March 29, 1991 in Taiwan, is a Taiwanese professional tennis 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.
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Juniors
Yang was named International Tennis Federation (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.
Pro tour
Yang competes today on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 164, on May 14, 2012, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 144, on November 23, 2009. Yang is coached by Lhen Man.
In the 2012 US Open, Yang reached the third qualifying round, where he lost to Teymuraz Gabashvili. Later he qualified to the ATP Bangkok, where he lost in first round to Grigor Dimitrov.
In 2013, he defeated Tatsuma Ito 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 and Wu Di.
Yang defeated Marius Copil to reach third round of qualifying of the 2014 Australian Open, after which he lost to Dusan Lajovic. 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 and Norbert Gombos to reach semifinals, where he was defeated by Horacio Zeballos.