Venise Chan

Venise Chan
Full name Wing-Yau Venise Chan
Country (sports)  Hong Kong
Born (1989-05-30) 30 May 1989
Hong Kong
Singles
Career record 124–62
Career titles 0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking 340 (15 October 2012)
Current ranking 930 (16 December 2013)
Doubles
Career record 18–35
Career titles 0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking 516 (15 April 2013)
Current ranking 1288 (16 December 2013)
Last updated on: week of 16 December 2013.

Venise Chan (Chinese: 陳詠悠) is a former world ranked and No. 1 women's tennis player from Hong Kong.

Chan graduated from the University of Washington in 2011 with a Bachelor of Business Administration and earned a Master's in Philosophy from Cambridge University in 2014. She currently resides in Hong Kong and works in finance.

At age 12 yrs 318 days, Chan became the youngest female since Paulette Moreno in 1977 to contest a Ladies' Open singles final in Hong Kong when she reached the title decider at the 2002 Hong Kong National Tennis Championships.[1] She made her debut for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team in 2006, and has a 14-5 record as of February 2013. She won her sixth career pro circuit title at the US$10,000 Sharm El Sheikh F4 in Egypt(Jun 2012).

In her career, she won six women's singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Pro Circuit.[2] She reached a career-high WTA Ranking of No. 340 in singles and No. 516 in doubles.[3] She is also the youngest player from Hong Kong (16 years and 5 months) to lift a women's singles title and the only one to do so on her pro circuit debut.[4]

She represented Hong Kong at the World University Games (2011), Asian Games (2010), All China Games (2009 and 2013), Asian Championships (2007), and Fed Cup (2006-2007 and 2012-2013).[5]

Moreover, she is 13-3 in Fed Cup singles, placing her third among all Hong Kong representatives under the Most Singles Wins category.[6]

Chan in 2014

In 2005 and 2011, she was nominated for the Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards, an annual Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China annual event.[7]

While at the University of Washington, she reached a career-high NCAA Division I ranking of No. 9 in singles and No. 6 in doubles. In addition, she earned two All-Americas in singles (2010 and 2011) and one for doubles (2011).[8] She is the only player from Hong Kong besides Patricia Hy (UCLA) to attain Division I All-America in singles on the US collegiate circuit. She also received the All-Pac-10 First Team nomination in 2009 and 2010, and was the lone recipient of the Pac-10 Scholar Athlete of the Year Award in 2011.[8] During her sophomore year, she swept all the No. 1 players from UC Berkeley (Jana Juricova), Stanford (Hilary Barte), UCLA (Yasmin Schnack), and USC (Sarah Fansler) in the same regular season.[9] In addition, she is the only player from Hong Kong to compete in the maindraw of the women's singles at the NCAA D1 Championships four years in a row (2008-2011).[9]

Following her final collegiate home game, then Huskies Head Coach Jill Hetherington,[10] herself a former WTA No. 6 in doubles said, "Venise was one of the best players to come out of the University of Washington. I remember thinking that when she came, she was going to break a lot of records. I was very lucky to get Venise to come here, as our team was struggling, and she was the anchor that turned our program around. She competed with all the best players in the country and had wins over many of them. She is going to be missed."[11]

In 2014, Chan competed in the Seabright Cup, a biennial international match that pits an Oxford & Cambridge team against a combined Harvard and & Yale side. She is also the only player from Hong Kong to earn a selection to the Seabright Cup.

As a junior, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 24 in the world. She competed in all four Junior Grand Slams ‒ Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and US Open.[2] She also captured the Hong Kong National Junior Tennis Championships in the under-10, under-12, under-14, under-16, and under-18 age groups.[11]

Locally, she has captured all three local majors, lifting the women's singles title at the Hong Kong National Tennis Championships in 2004, SCAA Open in 2003 and 2004, and CRC Open in 2005, 2011, and 2016.[12]

ITF Circuit Finals

Singles: 9 (6-3)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (6–3)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 13 November 2005 Manila, Philippines Hard Philippines Czarina-Mae Arevalo 6-1 6-4
Runner-up 1. 20 November 2005 Manila, Philippines Hard United States Riza Zalameda 3-6 2-6
Winner 2. 23 July 2006 Bangkok, Thailand Hard Indonesia Ayu-Fani Damayanti 6-4 6-4
Runner-up 2. 5 October 2006 Jakarta, Indonesia Hard Indonesia Sandy Gumulya 3-6 0-6
Runner-up 3. 23 August 2008 Khon Kaen, Thailand Hard China Lu Jiajing 3-6 4-6
Winner 3. 11 September 2011 Yeongwol, South Korea Hard China Yue Yuan 6-2 6-3
Winner 4. 12 February 2011 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard Netherlands Lynn Schonhage 7-5 1-6 6-1
Winner 5. 24 June 2012 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard Russia Ekaterina Yashina 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4
Winner 6. 6 October 2012 Bidar, India Hard Japan Yumi Miyazaki 6-2 6-3

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (2–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 8 July 2012 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard Russia Anna Morgina Egypt Magy Aziz
Egypt Mora Eshak		 6-1 6-2
Winner 2. 28 October 2012 Seoul, South Korea Hard Uzbekistan Nigina Abduraimova South Korea Kim Ji-young
South Korea Yoo Mi		 6-4 2-6 [12-10]

References

  1. ↑ "Venise Chan 陳詠悠". Hong Kong Tennis Association. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Venise Chan." International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Venise Chan." Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Yanne, Andy. "Destination Washington - Venise all set to battle Pac-10's best." Hong Kong Tennis Association, 20 August 2007. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Hong Kong Tennis Association Annual Report (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
  6. ↑ "Venise Chan." FedCup. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  7. ↑ Yanne, Andy. "Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards 2011." Hong Kong Tennis Association, 16 January 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  8. 1 2 [http://gohuskies.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=997 "2010-11 Women's Tennis Roster, Venise Chan."] University of Washington Athletics. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  9. 1 2 "Made in Hong Kong: Venise Chan garners All-America honours." Hong Kong Tennis Association, 24 July 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "Jill Hetherington." Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  11. 1 2 "Venise Chan concludes collegiate career as three-time All-American." Hong Kong Tennis Association, 16 June 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  12. ↑ Hong Kong Tennis Association Annual Report (2003, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2016)
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