Tsao Chia-yi (Chinese: 曹家宜, born 2 December 2003), is a Taiwanese professional tennis player.

Tsao Chia-yi
Country (sports) Chinese Taipei
Born (2003-12-02) 2 December 2003 (age 20)
New Taipei City, Taiwan
PlaysRight (two-handed both sides)
Prize money$45,727
Singles
Career record75–56
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 464 (9 October 2023)
Current rankingNo. 716 (21 October 2024)
Doubles
Career record97–33
Career titles1
Highest rankingNo. 115 (12 August 2024)
Current rankingNo. 180 (21 October 2024)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic GamesQF (2024)
Last updated on: 21 October 2024.

She has a career-high doubles ranking by the WTA of 115, achieved on 12 August 2024. Tsao has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In October 2023, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 464.

Career

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Tsao made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2023 Hong Kong Open in doubles and won the title with Tang Qianhui.[1][2]

Partnering Hsieh Su-wei,[3] she reached the quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, defeating Romanian duo Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu[4] and Ukrainians Marta Kostyuk and Dayana Yastremska.[5] They lost to Czech pairing Karolína Muchová and Linda Nosková.[6]

WTA Tour finals

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Doubles: 1 (title)

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Legend
Grand Slam
WTA 1000
WTA 500
WTA 250 (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Oct 2023 Hong Kong Open, China SAR WTA 250 Hard   Tang Qianhui   Oksana Kalashnikova
  Aliaksandra Sasnovich
7–5, 1–6, [11–9]

WTA Challenger finals

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Doubles: 1 (title)

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Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2024 Båstad Open, Sweden Clay   Peangtarn Plipuech   María Lourdes Carlé
  Julia Riera
7–5, 6–3

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 2 (runner-ups)

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W15 tournaments (0–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Kristina Paskauskas 2–6, 6–4, 6–7(8)
Loss 0–2 Nov 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Hanne Vandewinkel 2–6, 5–7

Doubles: 17 (14 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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W40/50 tournaments (1–1)
W25/35 tournaments (2–2)
W15 tournaments (11–0)
Result No. Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2022 ITF Cancún, Mexico W15 Hard   Saki Imamura   Melissa Morales
  Kirsten-Andrea Weedon
6–3, 6–1
Win 2–0 Sep 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Lee Ya-hsin   Emilia Durska
  Camilla Zanolini
7–6(6), 6–4
Win 3–0 Sep 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Lee Ya-hsin   Abigail Amos
  Jaeda Daniel
6–0, 6–1
Win 4–0 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Lee Ya-hsin   Priska Madelyn Nugroho
  Wei Sijia
1–6, 6–1, [10–3]
Win 5–0 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Lee Ya-hsin   Flavie Brugnone
  Stéphanie Visscher
6–4, 6–0
Win 6–0 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Lee Ya-hsin   Hanne Vandewinkel
  Radka Zelníčková
6–2, 6–4
Win 7–0 Nov 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Wu Fang-hsien   Kamilla Bartone
  Bojana Marinković
6–0, 7–5
Win 8–0 Nov 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Wu Fang-hsien   Anastasiia Gureva
  Vlada Mincheva
6–3, 6–4
Win 9–0 Dec 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Wu Fang-hsien   Oana Gavrilă
  Emilie Lindh
6–4, 6–3
Loss 9–1 Jan 2023 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W25 Hard   Miho Kuramochi   Oana Gavrilă
  Sapfo Sakellaridi
5–7, 6–4, [6–10]
Loss 9–2 Jan 2023 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Nadine Keller   Lee Ya-hsin
  Yang Yidi
6–2, 3–6, [13–15]
Win 10–2 Mar 2023 ITF Hinode, Japan W15 Hard   Akari Inoue   Li Yu-yun
  Rinon Okuwaki
6–4, 6–7(5), [10–5]
Win 11–2 Jun 2023 ITF Tainan, Taiwan W25 Clay   Yang Ya-yi   Monique Barry
  Lee Ya-hsin
6–2, 6–2
Win 12–2 Sep 2023 ITF Kyoto, Japan W25 Hard   Aoi Ito   Hiromi Abe
  Anri Nagata
6–2, 6–1
Loss 12–3 Jan 2024 ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand W50 Hard   Lanlana Tararudee   Zhibek Kulambayeva
  Sapfo Sakellaridi
w/o
Win 13–3 Mar 2024 ITF Solarino, Italy W35 Carpet   Martyna Kubka   Katarina Kozarov
  Veronika Miroshnichenko
6–4, 6–2
Win 14–3 Apr 2024 ITF Kashiwa, Japan W50 Hard   Ankita Raina   Madeleine Brooks
  Eudice Chong
6–4, 6–4

References

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  1. ^ "Hong Kong Tennis Open: Taiwanese-mainland Chinese duo Tsao and Tang lift doubles title in Victoria Park". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Fernandez beats Siniakova to win Hong Kong, first title of season". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Tennis star Hsieh Su-wei partners with Tsao Chia-yi for the Paris Olympics". Radio Taiwan International. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  4. ^ "OLYMPICS/July 28 recap: Taiwan's top shuttlers, tennis players secure first wins at Paris Olympics". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Hsieh, Tsao advance to quarter-finals". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  6. ^ "OLYMPICS/Taiwan women eliminated from Olympics tennis doubles". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
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