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Tseng Chun-hsin
曾俊欣
Tseng at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports) Chinese Taipei
ResidenceTaipei, Taiwan
Born (2001-08-08) 8 August 2001 (age 23)
Taipei, Taiwan
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro2019
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachBenjamin Ebrahimzadeh
Prize moneyUS$ 935,217
Singles
Career record12–24
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 83 (8 August 2022)
Current rankingNo. 115 (19 August 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2022, 2023)
French Open1R (2022)
Wimbledon1R (2022)
US Open1R (2022)
Doubles
Career record3–2
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 305 (8 August 2022)
Current rankingNo. 631 (19 August 2024)
Last updated on: 19 August 2024.
Tseng Chun-hsin
Medal record
Men's Tennis
Representing  Chinese Taipei
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples Men's singles
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Naples Men's Team
In this Chinese name, the family name is Tseng.
Tseng Chun-hsin
Traditional Chinese曾俊欣
Simplified Chinese曾俊欣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZēng Jùnxīn

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 tennis player.[2]

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

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Tseng 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

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Pre-2019: Junior years

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He 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

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He 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, Grand Slam & top 100 debuts

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In 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 115

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Ranked 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 115, three weeks later following a final showing at the 2024 San Marino Open.

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

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Singles (9–5)

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Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (5–4)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (4–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (4–0)
Clay (5–5)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 May 2018 Vietnam F1, Thừa Thiên Huế Futures Hard Vietnam Lý Hoàng Nam 6–3, 7–6(7–0)
Win 2–0 Jun 2018 Portugal F9, Póvoa de Varzim Futures Hard Portugal Nuno Borges 6–3, 6–4
Win 3–0 Jul 2018 Chinese Taipei F2, Taipei Futures Hard Chinese Taipei Chen Ti 6–1, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–1)
Loss 3–1 Jul 2019 Prague, Czech Republic Challenger Clay Spain Mario Vilella Martínez 4–6, 2–6
Loss 3–2 Oct 2020 M25 Hamburg, Germany World Tennis Tour Clay Poland Kacper Żuk 4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win 4–2 Aug 2021 M25 Pitești, Romania World Tennis Tour Clay Argentina Hernán Casanova 6–3, 3–6, 6–0
Loss 4–3 Dec 2021 Maia, Portugal Challenger Clay (i) France Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Win 5–3 Dec 2021 Maia, Portugal Challenger Clay (i) Portugal Nuno Borges 5–7, 7–5, 6–2
Win 6–3 Feb 2022 Bengaluru, India Challenger Hard Croatia Borna Gojo 6–4, 7–5
Loss 6–4 Mar 2022 Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy Challenger Clay France Manuel Guinard 1–6, 2–6
Win 7–4 Apr 2022 Murcia, Spain Challenger Clay Slovakia Norbert Gombos 6–4, 6–1
Win 8–4 Mar 2024 Székesfehérvár, Hungary Challenger Clay France Titouan Droguet 4–1 ret.
Win 9–4 May 2024 Vicenza, Italy Challenger Clay Argentina Marco Trungelliti 6–3, 6–2
Loss 9–5 Jun 2024 Prostějov, Czech Republic Challenger Clay Switzerland Jérôme Kym 2–6, 6–3, 2–6

Doubles (2–0)

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Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (1–0)
Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (2–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Aug 2021 M25 Pitești, Romania World Tennis Tour Clay France Valentin Royer France Corentin Denolly
France Clément Tabur 		4–6, 6–2, [10–8]
Win 1–0 Apr 2024 Barletta, Italy Challenger Clay Czech Republic Zdeněk Kolář France Théo Arribagé
France Benjamin Bonzi 		1–6, 6–3, [10–7]

Junior Grand Slam finals

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Singles (2–1)

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Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 2018 Australian Open Hard United States Sebastian Korda 6–7(6–8), 4–6
Win 2018 French Open Clay Argentina Sebastián Báez 7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win 2018 Wimbledon Grass United Kingdom Jack Draper 6–1, 6–7 (2–7), 6–4

Doubles (0–1)

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Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2018 French Open Clay Chinese Taipei Ray Ho Czech Republic Ondřej Štyler
Japan Naoki Tajima		 4–6, 4–6

Performance timeline

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

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Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A 1R 1R A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
French Open A A A 1R Q2 A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Wimbledon Q1 NH A 1R Q1 A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
US Open A A A 1R A Q2 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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  1. ^ "With Roland-Garros triumphs, Jason Tseng and Coco Gauff prove they are two of a kind". mouratoglou.com.
  2. ^ "ATP Rankings". ATP Tour. ATP Tour, Inc. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b David Waldstein (21 December 2018). "Mom Sells Tomatoes as Her Son Seeks Tennis Titles". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  4. ^ David Waldstein (27 December 2018). "夜市小吃攤中崛起的台灣網球之光". The New York Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  5. ^ "年需400萬 曾媽賣糖葫蘆強撐". CTS (in Chinese). 3 February 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  6. ^ 翁, 聿煌 (18 July 2018). "「夜市球王」曾俊欣衣錦還鄉！樂華夜市自治會頒獎學金". The Liberty Times. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Meet the #NextGenATP on the Rise in Chinese Taipei". ATP Tour.
  8. ^ "Chun-Hsin Tseng's Bio". atptour.com. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  9. ^ Alex Macpherson (1 February 2015). "Potapova and Tseng claim Les Petits As titles". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Chun Hsin Tseng, one to watch". tennishead.net. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  11. ^ "Tennis prodigy Tseng Chun-hsin named ITF boys' world champion". Taiwan Today. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Japan and Chinese Taipei win women's and men's singles titles". University Sports News. International University Sports Federation. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Borges to Face Tseng in Maia Open Final". 18 December 2021. Archived from the original on 23 November 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  14. ^ 吳, 嘉倪 (19 December 2021). "決賽三盤逆轉！「夜市球王」曾俊欣奪生涯挑戰賽首冠". 聯合線上公司. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  15. ^ "2018 French Open boys' singles champion awarded wild card into Australian Open". 25 December 2021.
  16. ^ "Thanasi Kokkinakis among AO wildcard recipients".
  17. ^ "Chun-hsin Tseng pockets Bengaluru Open title". The Times of India. 13 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ "#NextGenATP Star Chun-hsin Tseng Qualifies for Roland Garros". ATP Tour.
  20. ^ @rolandgarros (24 May 2022). "Wow Joao 🤯A four hour and 23 minute epic comes to an end 👊#RolandGarros" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  21. ^ "Tseng Claims Spot In Milan". ATP Tour. 25 October 2022.
  22. ^ "Borges defends Phoenix Challenger crown: 'On cloud nine'; Varillas, Squire and Tseng also win Challenger titles". ATP Tour. 18 March 2024.
  23. ^ @EdgeAI (July 24, 2024). "First ever ATP main tour quarter-final for Chun Hsin Tseng" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  24. ^ "ATP roundup: Mattia Bellucci heads to quarterfinals at Atlanta Open". Reuters. 24 July 2024.
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Awards and achievements
Preceded by ITF Junior World Champion
2018 		Succeeded by
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