Tseng Chun-hsin (Chinese: 曾俊欣; pinyin: Zēng Jùnxīn; born 8 August 2001), also known as Jason Tseng,[1] is a Taiwanese tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 83 by the ATP, achieved on 8 August 2022. Tseng is currently the No. 1 Taiwanese player on the ATP Tour.[2]
Tseng at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships | |
Country (sports) | |
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Residence | Taipei, Taiwan |
Born | Taipei, Taiwan | 8 August 2001
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Turned pro | 2019 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Coach | Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh |
Prize money | US$ 930,657 |
Singles | |
Career record | 12–21 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 83 (8 August 2022) |
Current ranking | No. 122 (5 August 2024) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2022, 2023) |
French Open | 1R (2022) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2022) |
US Open | 1R (2022) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 3–2 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 305 (8 August 2022) |
Current ranking | No. 636 (12 August 2024) |
Last updated on: 12 August 2024. |
Medal record | ||
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Men's Tennis | ||
Representing | ||
Summer Universiade | ||
2019 Naples | Men's singles | |
2019 Naples | Men's Team |
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Traditional Chinese | 曾俊欣 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 曾俊欣 | ||||||
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He was also the ITF junior No. 1, first reaching this ranking on 11 June 2018 after winning the French Open Boys' Singles. He is also part of the Chinese Taipei Davis Cup team since 2018, with a W/L record of 1–0.
Early and personal life
editTseng began playing tennis at the age of five with his father, who worked at a night market in Taiwan.[3][4] He first trained in elementary school team located in Yonghe District, New Taipei City.[5]
He is nicknamed "the Night Market Champion" (Chinese: 夜市球王) by the Taiwanese media as his parents used to sell Tanghulu at the Lehua Night Market in New Taipei City in order to support his tennis career.[3][6][7]
Career
editPre-2019: Junior years
editHe continued his training at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France from age 13 to 17.[8] During that period, he won singles title at the Petits As in 2015.[9]
In 2018, He won his first ITF Futures event in Vietnam.[10] He won the boys' singles title at the French Open and claimed the Wimbledon boys' singles title in the following month.[11]
2019: ATP and Masters debut
editHe made his ATP debut at the 2019 Miami Open as a wildcard.
In the 2019 Summer Universiade, Tseng won the gold medal in men's singles.[12]
2021–2022: Challenger breakthrough, major & top 100 debut
editIn December 2021, Tseng won his first ATP Challenger title in Maia, Portugal.[13][14] He made his debut in the top 200 at world No. 188 on 20 December 2021.
He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2022 Australian Open where he received a wildcard.[15][16]
The following month in February 2022, Tseng won his second ATP Challenger title in Bangalore, India.[17] In April 2022, Tseng won his third ATP Challenger title in Murcia, Spain.[18] He reached a career-high ranking of world No. 110 on 16 May 2022.
He qualified for his second Grand Slam tournament at the 2022 French Open to make his debut at this major.[19] He lost in the first round in five sets in a match that lasted 4 hours 23 minutes against João Sousa.[20]
As a result of reaching the semifinals in Bratislava, Tseng made his debut in the top 100, at No. 97 on 13 June 2022.
He participated in the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals as the sixth seed.[21]
2023–2024: First Masters win and ATP quarterfinal, back to top 125
editRanked No. 380, he made his debut in qualifying at the Masters 1000, the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters. He qualified for the main draw and defeated Alexander Shevchenko on his debut at this tournament, recording his first Masters win. As a result, he moved close to 80 positions back up, one position shy of the top 300 on 16 October 2023.
In March 2024, he won his fourth Challenger at the Kiskút Open in Szekesfehevar, Hungary and returned to the top 250 on 18 March 2024.[22]
Following his fifth Challenger title at the 2024 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza in June, and a final showing at the 2024 UniCredit Czech Open in Prostejov, he moved again 80 positions back up and returned to the top 175 on 10 June 2024.
Ranked No. 159, he entered the second round of the main draw at the Croatia Open as a lucky loser replacing third seed Holger Rune and defeated Fabio Fognini to reach his first ATP Tour quarterfinal.[23][24] As a result, he returned to the top 150 in the rankings on 29 July 2024 and to the top 125 a week later following a final showing at the 2024 San Marino Open.
ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals
editSingles (9–5)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | May 2018 | Vietnam F1, Thừa Thiên Huế | Futures | Hard | 6–3, 7–6(7–0) | |
Win | 2–0 | Jun 2018 | Portugal F9, Póvoa de Varzim | Futures | Hard | 6–3, 6–4 | |
Win | 3–0 | Jul 2018 | Chinese Taipei F2, Taipei | Futures | Hard | 6–1, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–1) | |
Loss | 3–1 | Jul 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | 4–6, 2–6 | |
Loss | 3–2 | Oct 2020 | M25 Hamburg, Germany | World Tennis Tour | Clay | 4–6, 6–7(4–7) | |
Win | 4–2 | Aug 2021 | M25 Pitești, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | 6–3, 3–6, 6–0 | |
Loss | 4–3 | Dec 2021 | Maia, Portugal | Challenger | Clay (i) | 6–3, 3–6, 2–6 | |
Win | 5–3 | Dec 2021 | Maia, Portugal | Challenger | Clay (i) | 5–7, 7–5, 6–2 | |
Win | 6–3 | Feb 2022 | Bengaluru, India | Challenger | Hard | 6–4, 7–5 | |
Loss | 6–4 | Mar 2022 | Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy | Challenger | Clay | 1–6, 2–6 | |
Win | 7–4 | Apr 2022 | Murcia, Spain | Challenger | Clay | 6–4, 6–1 | |
Win | 8–4 | Mar 2024 | Székesfehérvár, Hungary | Challenger | Clay | 4–1 ret. | |
Win | 9–4 | May 2024 | Vicenza, Italy | Challenger | Clay | 6–3, 6–2 | |
Loss | 9–5 | Jun 2024 | Prostějov, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | 2–6, 6–3, 2–6 |
Doubles (2–0)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Aug 2021 | M25 Pitești, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | 4–6, 6–2, [10–8] | ||
Win | 1–0 | Apr 2024 | Barletta, Italy | Challenger | Clay | 1–6, 6–3, [10–7] |
Junior Grand Slam finals
editSingles (2–1)
editResult | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 2018 | Australian Open | Hard | 6–7(6–8), 4–6 | |
Win | 2018 | French Open | Clay | 7–6(7–5), 6–2 | |
Win | 2018 | Wimbledon | Grass | 6–1, 6–7 (2–7), 6–4 |
Doubles (0–1)
editResult | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 2018 | French Open | Clay | 4–6, 4–6 |
Performance timeline
editW | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Singles
editTournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | SR | W–L | Win % |
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Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||
Australian Open | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
French Open | A | A | A | 1R | Q2 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
Wimbledon | Q1 | NH | A | 1R | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
US Open | A | A | A | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0 / 5 | 0–5 | 0% |
ATP Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||
Indian Wells Masters | A | NH | A | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
Miami Open | 1R | NH | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
Madrid Open | A | NH | A | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | Q2 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
Shanghai Masters | A | NH | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
References
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- ^ "ATP Rankings". ATP Tour. ATP Tour, Inc. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
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- ^ "年需400萬 曾媽賣糖葫蘆強撐". CTS (in Chinese). 3 February 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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- ^ "Tennis prodigy Tseng Chun-hsin named ITF boys' world champion". Taiwan Today. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ "Japan and Chinese Taipei win women's and men's singles titles". University Sports News. International University Sports Federation. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "Borges to Face Tseng in Maia Open Final". 18 December 2021. Archived from the original on 23 November 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
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- ^ "Thanasi Kokkinakis among AO wildcard recipients".
- ^ "Chun-hsin Tseng pockets Bengaluru Open title". The Times of India. 13 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ^ Huang, Chiao-wen; Lo, James (10 April 2022). "Taiwan's Tseng Chun-hsin wins tennis title at 2022 Murcia Open in Spain". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "#NextGenATP Star Chun-hsin Tseng Qualifies for Roland Garros". ATP Tour.
- ^ @rolandgarros (24 May 2022). "Wow Joao 🤯A four hour and 23 minute epic comes to an end 👊#RolandGarros" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Tseng Claims Spot In Milan". ATP Tour. 25 October 2022.
- ^ "Borges defends Phoenix Challenger crown: 'On cloud nine'; Varillas, Squire and Tseng also win Challenger titles". ATP Tour. 18 March 2024.
- ^ @EdgeAI (July 24, 2024). "First ever ATP main tour quarter-final for Chun Hsin Tseng" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "ATP roundup: Mattia Bellucci heads to quarterfinals at Atlanta Open". Reuters. 24 July 2024.