Latisha Chan

Latisha Chan

Chan at the 2016 French Open
Country (sports)	Chinese Taipei
Residence	Taipei City, Taiwan
Born	(1989-08-17) August 17, 1989 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
Prize money	$4,795,924
Singles
Career record	292–179
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	467–197
Career titles	28 WTA, 2 WTA 125s, 16 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 1 (23 October 2017)
Current ranking	No. 1 (23 October 2017)
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	SF (2018)
Wimbledon	SF (2011)
US Open	SF (2014, 2015, 2016)
Medal record Representing Chinese Taipei Women's Tennis Asian Games 2006 Doha Team 2006 Doha Doubles 2010 Guangdong Doubles 2010 Guangdong Mixed Doubles 2010 Guangdong Team 2014 Incheon Team 2014 Incheon Doubles Universiade 2017 Taipei Doubles 2017 Taipei Team 2017 Taipei Mixed doubles
Last updated on: 7 May 2018.

Latisha Chan (born August 17, 1989), formerly known by her Chinese name Chan Yung-jan (Chinese: 詹詠然; pinyin: Zhān Yǒngrán; Taiwanese Template:IPA-cmn), 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. She also finished runner-up in three other Grand Slam finals: the 2007 and 2015 Australian Open, as well as the 2007 US Open. Highlights of her singles career include semifinals in the 2006 Japan Open and finals in the 2007 PTT Bangkok Open. She reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 50 on June 11, 2007, and doubles ranking of No. 1 on October 23, 2017.

Chan is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Transnational Sport Management and Innovation at National Taiwan Sport University. She is the elder sister of fellow professional tennis player Chan Hao-ching.

Career highlights

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 performance

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 ITF 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 ITF event in Taipei. She also won a $50,000 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 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 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 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.

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, her previous best results were 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.

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

2015: Australian Open doubles final

Chan lost her third Grand Slam doubles final at the Australian Open. 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 WTA 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. They would go on to win another title at the Japan Women's Open in Tokyo.

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. This was the first Premier Mandatory title for Chan, the first big title of her career. The team added titles in Madrid and Rome with final victories over Tímea Babos and Andrea Hlaváčková and Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina, respectively.

Chan and Hingis played their first Grand Slam tournament together at the 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: Title drought and dropped out of world No.1

Chan has been struggling in 2018 after Hingis retired. She did not win any titles during her reign as world No. 1. Finally, Chan dropped out of world number 1 after losing in the second round in French Open.

Equipment

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

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

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

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2007	Australian Open	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Cara Black Liezel Huber	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 1–6
Runner-up	2007	US Open	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Nathalie Dechy Dinara Safina	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2015	Australian Open	Hard	Zheng Jie	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Winner	2017	US Open	Hard	Martina Hingis	Lucie Hradecka Katerina Siniakova	6–3, 6–2

Mixed doubles: 1 runner-up

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2011	Australian Open	Hard	Paul Hanley	Katarina Srebotnik Daniel Nestor	3–6, 6–3, [7–10]

Premier-Mandatory/Premier-5 finals

Doubles: 11 (9 titles, 2 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score
Runner-up	2007	Indian Wells	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	3–6, 5–7
Winner	2008	Rome	Clay	Chuang Chia-jung	Iveta Benešová Janette Husárová	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Winner	2015	Cincinnati	Hard	Chan Hao-ching	Casey Dellacqua Yaroslava Shvedova	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	2015	Beijing	Hard	Chan Hao-ching	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	7–6(11–9), 1–6, [8–10]
Winner	2016	Doha	Hard	Chan Hao-ching	Sara Errani Carla Suárez Navarro	6–3, 6–3
Winner	2017	Indian Wells	Hard	Martina Hingis	Lucie Hradecka Katerina Siniakova	7–6(7–4), 6–2
Winner	2017	Madrid	Clay	Martina Hingis	Tímea Babos Andrea Hlaváčková	6–4, 6–3
Winner	2017	Rome (2)	Clay	Martina Hingis	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	2017	Cincinnati (2)	Hard	Martina Hingis	Hsieh Su-wei Monica Niculescu	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Winner	2017	Wuhan	Hard	Martina Hingis	Shuko Aoyama Yang Zhaoxuan	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–4]
Winner	2017	China Open	Hard	Martina Hingis	Tímea Babos Andrea Hlaváčková	6–1, 6–4

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

Main article: Latisha Chan career statistics

See also

• Sport in Taiwan

External links

• Latisha Chan at the Women's Tennis Association
• Latisha Chan at the International Tennis Federation
• "Yung-Jan Chan". Junior Tennis, Inc. Archived from the original on November 6, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)